MENTORING LIBRARY SCHOOL STUDENTS - A SURVEY OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE UCLA GSLIS MENTOR PROGRAM

Mentoring has long been recognized as crucial to professional development in such fields as business and education. Librarianship is beginning to adopt this technique as a means to encourage and enhance an individual's movement into and through the profession. The Mentor Program at UCLA's Graduate School of library and Information Science pairs information professionals with first-year library school students in a mentor-mentee relationship. The development, organization, and evolution of the program is the focus of this article. Practical suggestions, copies of the program's questionnaires and surveys, as well as extensive bibliography are included.