Are You My Mentor? New Perspectives and Research on Informal Mentorship

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 532-539

  James, Julie M ^a   Rayner, Ashley ^a,b   Bruno, Jeannette ^a,c  

^a ELMHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Chicago Public Library   (United States)

^c Wilbur Wright College   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic librarians training of; Informal mentoring; Library employees; Mentoring in academic libraries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942363684     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2015.07.009     Document Type: Article

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