NOTE: ** = Required Field
**Type of report being submitted: Committee Progress Report
**Date:
**Committee Name:
Mentoring Committee
**Supervising Board Member: Laura Kortz
**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs: Samantha Schmehl Hines & Sarah Sutton
**Committee
members: Samantha
Schmehl Hines – Co-Chair, Sarah Sutton – Co-Chair, Christine Borne, Jennifer Cella, Leland Deeds, Arwen Hutt, Marissa Priddis, Janis Seagrave
**Activity in Current Reporting Period
a) Projects
completed (For example, any procedures, tip sheets, checklists, etc. created
during this period):
b) Projects
in progress but not yet completed:
Career
mentoring: We began a 6-month test of a
career mentoring project, limited to ten pairs.
We solicited applicants in November of last year, paired them up in
December and started off the actual mentoring in January. Pairs were matched by library specialty,
primarily. I and three other committee
members are monitoring the project, checking in with the pairs monthly to see
how the project is progressing. The
project will conclude at the end of June, at which time we will collect
evaluations and create a report and recommendations for the next committee, to
help them decide how best to proceed.
Conference
mentoring: The electronic application form has been updated and implementation
of a system for dumping data from the form directly into a database is in
progress. The form should be sent to the
Web Committee for posting on the Committee web site by mid-February. We're also in the process of updating the
content of several other pages for the web site including the mentoring tips
page and the conference guidelines page.
We've contacted the Publicity Committee with questions regarding the content
and procedure for promoting conference mentoring but have not had a response
from them as of this writing. One of the
questions we asked them was whether it would be helpful to them for Mentoring
Committee members to write text of emails to be sent to discussion lists. The Committee will take up this task
depending on what we hear from Publicity.
Finally, we least one Committee member who has volunteered to assist
with matching mentor-mentee pairs.
**Action Items/Issues To Be Resolved (What is left to do,
based on your Planning Report?
Have there been any substantial changes in plans since then? What items, if
any, have been deferred until next year?):
Career mentoring:
1. Continue monitoring the pilot project
2. Create an end-of-project survey to be
administered in June
3. Write up a report and recommendations for the
next year's committee
Conference mentoring:
1. Match mentor-mentee
pairs based on information provided in their applications.
2. Notify pairs of their
matches.
3. Monitor the NMRT_mentoring@yahoo.com
email for questions/comments/concerns/participants having difficulties with the
matching process (e.g. those who can't reach their partners, those who must
cancel at the last minute) and respond.
4. Respond to last minute
applications.
5. Plan and host events
during the conference to facilitate interaction between participants
6. Provide detailed reports
of the Committee's activities to next year's committee upon which they can
build.
1. Evaluate the participant's experience in the program
2. Create a detailed calendar of what we did and when
3. Share tips like how to maintain the Committee's web
pages and with whom we partnered to
accomplish our goals
Financial Report Section:
|
Your budget appropriation (see budget) |
a. 25.00 |
Amount which you have spent so far this year |
b. 0.00 |
Your estimated additional expenses this year |
c. ? |
|
Total of amount spent and additional
"estimated" expenses for this year (b+c) |
d. 0.00 |
|
Difference between budgeted amount and total expenses
from above (a-d) |
e. 25.00 |
**Report submitted by: Samantha Hines and Sarah Sutton