MLGSCA Mentor Program: Guidelines

The purpose of the MLGSCA Mentoring Program is to:

1. Provide focused mentoring events, i.e., a person with expertise in a specific area (e.g., administration, technical services, etc.) will be paired with someone seeking skills and support in that area.
2. Offer long-term and short-term mentoring experiences. A short-term mentoring experience may be for the duration of an annual or joint meeting. It may be a speaking engagement on "health sciences librarians" at one or more of the library schools in the area. Long-term mentoring may be open-ended and continue at the pleasure and discretion of the parties involved.

Who may participate:

1. Persons seeking a mentor. Protégés may be:

1. library school students with an interest in health sciences librarianship;
   
2. professional health sciences librarians;
   
3. library assistants;
   
4. members or non-members of MLGSCA or MLA;
   
5. provisional AHIP members.

2. Persons wanting to perform mentoring. Mentors should be:

1. professional health sciences librarians; (may include health sciences librarians in non-traditional circumstance, e.g., corporate librarians, consultant librarians, etc.)
2. members of MLGSCA or MLA;
3. experts (demonstrated expertise) in one or more of the health sciences librarians competencies listed in the Platform for Change.

NOTE: Academy credit for participation by AHIP members is currently under review by the MLA Credentialing Committee.

For more information:

• MLA Mentoring Resources Page
• Mentoring Programs in MLA Chapters

If you are interested in participating in the program, complete the application and return to:

Irene Lovas
Senior Medical Librarian
Cedars-Sinai Health System
Medical Library/Information Center
8700 Beverly Blvd. P.O. Box 48956
Los Angeles, CA 90048-0956
(310) 423-2315
(310) 423-0138 (fax)