Call for Chapter Proposals
Academic Library Mentoring:
Fostering Growth and Renewal
to be published by ACRL
Editors
– Leila June Rod-Welch & Barbara E. Weeg
Proposal submission
deadline: December 13, 2019
Email questions to:
academiclibrarymentoring@gmail.com
Editors Leila Rod-Welch
and Barb Weeg invite the submission of chapter proposals for a peer-reviewed
book on mentoring in college and university libraries. Mentors, mentees, and
those organizing mentorships are especially encouraged to submit proposals.
The book will explore
mentoring, a relationship between a senior library employee and a novice
library employee or student to ease the mentee’s transition to becoming a full
member of the library world and to promote professional growth. Mentoring
involves coaching, guiding, informing, leading, nurturing, and challenging for
career success, and is more than orienting or on-boarding an individual to a
specific library. Some chapters will focus on senior library faculty guiding
junior library faculty to their responsibilities of librarianship (or
teaching), research, and service. Mentoring can be reciprocal and include
co-mentoring in which the mentee guides the mentor in gaining new, more recent
knowledge and applying it to the evolving library profession. Organizational
renewal is enhanced by this exchange of new knowledge and
perspectives.
Mentorships may begin
formally with pairs matched by a department head or director and with a
written, signed mentorship agreement, or may form and evolve informally as
novice and senior faculty members come to know each other. Mentoring may be
done in dyads, teams, or other configurations and communication may occur in
face-to-face meetings or through various communication technologies. The myriad
forms of mentoring in academic libraries offer many growth and renewal options
for library personnel and their institutions.
We are seeking proposals
for the topics described below and invite authors to propose other topics that
are within the spirit of the book.
Section 1: Mentoring Fundamentals
Defining mentoring
Mentoring models
Communication modalities and channels used
Mentoring agreements: Documents and protocols
employed
Forming mentoring dyads:
Who pairs and why
Mentoring cohorts:
Communities of continuity
Reverse mentoring: Reinvigoration of experienced
employees
Dysfunctional mentoring relationships: Abuses of
power
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in mentoring
Section 2: Library Faculty-to-Library
Faculty Mentoring
Being a mentor, being a mentee
Experienced
faculty-to-novice faculty mentoring
Assessing benefits of faculty-to-faculty
mentoring: Career and library commitment
Section 3: Mentoring of Staff
Mentoring for the career growth of all library
staff
Opportunities and challenges of mentoring library
personnel who are the only one or
one of few holding the position in the library
Section 4: Library Faculty Mentoring of
Students
Library faculty mentoring of library science
graduate students
Library faculty mentoring of graduate students
writing theses or dissertations
Library faculty mentoring students beyond
library science
Section 5: Extending Mentoring: Leadership
Formation
Identifying future library administrators
Promoting leadership skills in all library
personnel
Authors may address
these concepts within the library setting through qualitative descriptions of
mentoring experiences, reviews of the literature, original research projects,
and other approaches. Documents to help readers understand the concepts being
explored or the recommendations being made are encouraged, such as,
step-by-step mentoring checklists, mentoring agreements, mentorship forms, or
mentor training materials. Chapters may not have been published previously or
submitted elsewhere simultaneously.
Submission procedure:
Please submit chapter proposals of 500-700 words, a one-paragraph author’s
statement including your experience with mentoring (e.g., as mentor, mentee, or
both; in a formal or informal relationship, or both) for each author, and, if available,
a list of previous publications to Call for Chapter Proposals -- Academic Library
Mentoring by December 13, 2019.
Final manuscripts should
be approximately 12-20 pages (double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman)
following Chicago Manual of Style.
Timeline:
Proposals for chapters
due to editors: December 13, 2019
Notification
by editors of proposal acceptance: January, 24 2020
Authors submit completed
chapters: May 22, 2020
Additional key dates
will be sent to successful proposal writers
Dr. Leila Rod-Welch is
the Outreach Services Librarian & Associate Professor and Barbara E. Weeg
is a Collection Strategist Librarian & Professor, both at the University of
Northern Iowa.
