Committee Planning Report

NOTE: ** = Required Field

 

 

**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report

 

 

**Date:  Aug. 15, 2005

 

 

**Committee Name:  Mentoring Committee

 

 

 

**Supervising Board Member:  Laurel Bliss

 

 

 

**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs:  Jennifer Cella and Samantha Hines

 

 

 

**Committee members:  Maud Mundava, Crystal Renfro, C. L. Quillen, Leland R. Deeds, Anne Pemberton, Marissa Priddis, Douglas King, Jody Gray, Emily Barton

 

 

 

 

**Committee Charge:  The Mentoring Committee's responsibility is to develop the Mentoring Program, which matches mentors with new members at the ALA Annual Conference. The committee is charged with exploring ways to use technology and up-to-date communication methods to expand mentoring to an all-year-round program available to those who can't attend conferences. The committee also prepares guides dealing with mentoring.

 

 

 

 

**2005 - 2006 Project Description / Goals:  Expand the pilot project for Career Mentoring from last year into a full-year program; work with fellow ALA groups on mentoring issues; refine the Conference Mentoring forms and guidelines; and create a more prominent web presence.   

 

 

 

 

**Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products): 

Ø      To successfully expand the year round Career Mentoring to a 12 month program, with more than twenty participants

Ø      Create a better web presence including - define more clearly the differences and expectations of Conference verses Career Mentoring programs; minimum requirements for Conference Mentors; and publicize mentoring success stories

Ø      Formally coordinate the Conference Mentoring with the NMRT Meet & Greet event

Ø      Strive to increase the number of Conference Mentoring participants by publicizing the program to a wider audience

 

 

 

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget)

a. 0

Amount which you have spent so far this year

b. 0

Your estimated additional expenses this year

c. 0

Total of amount spent and additional "estimated" expenses for this year (b+c)

d. 0

Difference between budgeted amount and total expenses from above (a-d)

e. 0

 

f. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year (either money or in-kind gifts), list here:   None

 

 

 

g. Vendor support requested: (From the above list, what, if any, has been requested from the Exhibitor Contact and Relations Committee?)  

 

None

 

 

h. Vendor support received: (From the above list, what if any, has been received?)  

 

None

 

                                                     

Specific Needs/Support (non-financial): (For the categories below, please include approximate date service needed)

a. Web Support (help with webpage creation, web form creation, web database, web database, scripting, etc): 

 

Ø      Posting of a revised application form for Career Mentoring, with completed forms to be sent to the committee's Yahoo email address

Ø      Redesign the Conference Mentoring web form to capture more relevant information to assist with pairing matches

Ø      Work to develop a more user friendly database that can be used from year to year to track participants

 

b. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated numbers needed and brief job description)      

 

None

 

c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.): 

Ø      Career Mentoring will be advertised widely on discussion lists and library news websites/blogs

Ø      Promotional materials made available at Mid-Winter to promote the Conference Mentoring at Annual

Ø      Posting to various discussion lists to solicit participants for the Conference Mentoring program

Ø      Promotional article for both programs to be submitted for Footnotes

 

 

**Report submitted by:  Samantha Hines and Jennifer Cella, Co-Chairs        

 

**Email address:  samhines@gmail.com and jcella@miami.edu