Friday, April 13, 2012 from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm in the Spector Room

Promotion Portfolio Sharing Event

In honor of our third President’s birthday, and because it’s heading towards that time of year again when all those applying for promotion are busy on organizing your portfolios, the Mentoring Team announces its 3rd Promotion Portfolio Sharing. For those not yet eligible for the next level in rank (Senior Assistant, Associate, or Librarian) come anyway and take a look to see how your peers have structured theirs to get ideas. It’s never too early to begin planning.

The Portfolios Sharing works due to the generosity of those who worked their way through the ranks of Senior Assistant, Associate , and Full Librarian, so please consider bringing your portfolio(s) to share with your colleagues. Remember one does not have to be present for the entire period although it is hope that portfolios can remain on display. We will coordinate safe-keeping and return. Please let me know if you have any questions. If you are sharing, please RSVP to pdverhey@syr.edu. Remember we need your portfolios to make the event possible.

The Library’s Mentoring Program is intended to provide librarians with guidance and assistance relative to the Library’s promotion process and professional service and related activities. While librarians receive direction and support through the annual performance evaluation process and other interactions with managers and administrators, they also may wish to avail themselves of the expertise and experience of their colleagues. The Program is a voluntary, multifaceted team-based program that allows for both group and individual mentoring.

The Mentoring Program was featured in the Association of Research Library's Socializing New Hires SPEC Kit (2011).

Who is the Program for?

• Librarians new to SUL.
• Librarians coming up for promotion.
• Librarians seeking professional development advice and opportunities.

Goals and Activities:

• Facilitate the building of collegial relationships between librarians.
• Provide guidance in the promotion process.
• Provide guidance in professional development activities such as presentations, publications, and service to member organizations.

• Mentor and mentee matching based on areas of need and other factors.
• Brown bags discussions throughout each semester that center around discussin of professional development topics. See our Events for a list of future and past brown bags
• Distribution of information about professional development opportunities including networking events, webinars and calls for publishing/presentation etc.

Please note the Mentoring Program is not designed to mediate in supervisory or other personnel related issues, nor can it answer questions related to the Librarian’s Manual. All requests for mentoring are treated with the utmost confidentiality.

• Nancy Turner (coordinator), 3-2237
• Marty Hanson, 3-1947
• Susan Kline, 3-9758
• Yuan Li, 3-4247
• Peter Verheyen 3-9756

About the Mentoring Team:
The Mentoring Team consists of a small subgroup of volunteer mentors that manages the program under the broad oversight of the Associate Deans. The Mentoring Team connects Mentees and Mentors, coordinates events (e.g., brown bag discussion groups and workshops), communicates with all librarian staff about Mentoring Program activities, and serves as a liaison between the mentoring team and the Associate Deans.