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The Mentor: From Colleague To Supervisor, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes
The Mentor: From Colleague To Supervisor, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
I became a supervisor and department chair by accident. I had taken numerous workshops on leadership and management along the way, but I really wasn't convinced that I wanted to be a supervisor. When the opportunity presented itself and I decided to give it a try, there were some surprises along the way. For example, I hadn't really thought about how the relationships I had with colleagues would shift when my level of authority changed.
The Mentor: What Do You Need From A Mentor?, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes
The Mentor: What Do You Need From A Mentor?, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Just what does a mentor do anyway? What does it mean to mentor someone? What does it mean to have a mentor? These are questions I've struggled with over the years.
Currere As A Method For Critical Reflection In The Profession Of Academic Librarianship, Richard A. Stoddart
Currere As A Method For Critical Reflection In The Profession Of Academic Librarianship, Richard A. Stoddart
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Academic librarianship has an intimate association with narratives and stories from their traditional role in curating, caring for, and making collections accessible. Librarians also experience the intricacies and challenges of narrative inquiry through the qualitative research they undertake, oral histories they gather, reflective teaching practices they facilitate, and oral-traditions they interact with. Despite these intersections with reflection and narratives, academic librarianship, and library sciences as a whole, have not fully incorporated their own narratives within their practices. Academic librarianship has the ability but not the spaces to critically reflect in a holistic manner. Shadiow (2013) encourages us all to “recall, …