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** Set aside time each week to collaborate on articulating weekly goals. | ** Set aside time each week to collaborate on articulating weekly goals. | ||
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** Establish "office hours" in chat room or IM for questions and review of progress | ** Establish "office hours" in chat room or IM for questions and review of progress | ||
* Evaluation: We would love to know what worked or didn't work for advice to future mentors | * Evaluation: We would love to know what worked or didn't work for advice to future mentors | ||
Revision as of 14:44, 7 December 2012
Goals
- Bringing people together to build individual capacity
Structure
Structure of the relationship between mentor and mentee can and should be defined at the outset by the parties involved. However, here are a few simple guidelines you may or may not want to follow for success:
- Set up a clear overall goal and timeframe. "Learn Ruby" is ok, but is not specific enough. "Create and deploy experimental Vote2Promote discussion board in Ruby on Rails" would be better.
- Set up expectations. For example:
- Set aside time each week to collaborate on articulating weekly goals.
- Establish a communication platform and expected response time in advance.
- Establish "office hours" in chat room or IM for questions and review of progress
- Evaluation: We would love to know what worked or didn't work for advice to future mentors
Platforms for communication
Participants
Mentors
Bess Sadler - I currently have a couple of pro bono projects that would be good learning opportunities for someone interested in learning more about Blacklight, Ruby on Rails, Solr, museums, or libraries in Africa. I am also happy to be a mentor generally, and I'm open to suggestions about what form that might take.
Mentee
Bess Sadler - I have been a developer for Digital Humanities and Library software projects for over a decade, but I am relatively new to library management and administration and I would love to find a mentor with more experience than I have in those areas.
