NMRT Mentoring Program

Two programs are offered: 1)Conference Mentoring - designed to help first-time attendees of ALA Annual Conference by pairing them with seasoned conference attendees; 2)Career Mentoring - a year-round program to connect newer librarians with seasoned librarians relating to career development in librarianship.

Mentoring Guidelines || Testimonial

Do you sometimes feel you have professional questions to ask and no one to direct them to?

Do you find yourself wishing that someone would have been there to teach you all that you now know?

Would you like to walk alongside a new librarian as they enter the profession?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, the Mentoring Program is for you! The Mentoring Committee of NMRT is sponsoring this project to help newcomers to librarianship navigate their way in the profession.

Interested? As a mentor or a mentee, you can participate in the following programs:

1. Career Mentoring: a year-round program to connect a newer librarian with a seasoned librarian for a mentoring relationship relating to career development in librarianship. Conference mentoring participants may choose to extend into the career mentoring program at their discretion. Applications for Career Mentoring for the 2023-2024 committee year are now available. Click here to apply.

2. Conference Mentoring: a program designed to help first time attendees of the ALA Annual Conference (whose size can often be overwhelming and intimidating!) feel at ease by pairing them with seasoned conference attendees.Applications for Conference Mentoring are currently closed and will reopen for ALA Annual 2024.

Mentors and mentees will be matched based on the information provided. Please see Mentoring Guidelines for details.

2023-2024 Mentoring Committee