Mentoring genX for leadership in the public library

Public Library Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 205-217

  Doherty, Gail ^a  

^a Winnipeg Public Library   (Canada)

Author keywords

Leadership; Mentoring; Mentorship; Organizational storytelling; Peer mentoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548538340     PISSN: 01616846     EISSN: 15411540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J118v25n01_16     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Sally Helgesen, The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1995: 187. The author talks of language as "generative," not merely "descriptive."
2. Helgesen, 16-17. The author discusses her idea of the organic nature of the Web versus the "rigid architecture of the machine."
3. E. B. White, Charlotte's Web. N.Y.: Harper Collins, 1952: 78. Charlotte's first attempt to describe Wilbur's uniqueness describes him as "Some Pig."
4. Staff Development Committee, Human Resources Section, Library Administration and Management Association, Staff Development: A Practical Guide, Third Edition. American Library Association, 2001. I have used some of the points from their discussion of the benefits of mentoring in Chapter 14: 79.
5. Pixie Ann Mosley, "Mentoring Gen X Managers: Tomorrow's Library Leadership is Already Here," Library Administration and Management 19, (Fall, 2005): 187.
6. Stephen Abram and Judy Luther, "Born with the Chip," Library Journal, 129 (May 1, 2004): 34-37. While the authors talk about patrons in this work, their points apply equally well to staff.
7. Mary Ann Mavrinac, "Transformational Leadership: Peer Mentoring as a Values-Based Learning Process," portal: Libraries and the Academy 5 (2005): 392.
8. Mavrinac, 398-400.
9. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, rendered into modern English by J. U. Nicolson. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1934, 10.
10. Our library worked with Dr. Lynda Pinnington of Pinnington Training and Development. Her company's Website is located at: .
11. The 8Rs Research Team. The Future of Human Resources in Canadian Libraries, 2005: 17. As part of its research, the project team surveyed over 400 administrators and human resource professionals, over 2, 000 librarians, and close to 2, 000 paraprofessionals. Available at .
12. Wendy Newman, "Mentor Alert! Please Share this with a Student or New Librarian," Feliciter 49 (2003): 5.
13. Walter Swap, Dorothy Leonard, Mimi Shields, and Lisa Abrams, "Using Mentoring and Storytelling to Transfer Knowledge in the Workplace," Journal of Management Information Systems 18 (Summer 2001): 96.
14. Mosley, 187.
15. Mosley, 190.
16. Thomas L. Moore, "Facilitative Leadership: One Approach to Empowering Staff and Other Stakeholders," Library Trends 53 (Summer 2004): 230-237. Moore discusses the core values that inform facilitative leadership and I have used these to talk about storytelling.
17. Diana Whitney and Amanda Foster-Bloom, the Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Guide to Positive Change. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler, 2003. I have based my comments on the definitions of Appreciative Inquiry they provide in Chapter 1.
18. Whitney, 15.