Supporting Library Colleagues with Mentorship
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Zoom
Singer/songwriter Bill Withers reminds us in his song "Lean on Me" that we all have challenges at times in our lives and that there are people in our lives who are available to help support us through those challenges. As library professionals, some of these relationships can be mentorship relationships to help us navigate challenging moments in our careers.
Mentorship can be formal or informal, and our panelists will provide thoughts and insights into different ways that mentorship can exist in the library world - within an institution, at a national level, and potentially focused on supporting efforts to diversify the profession.
This webinar will be recorded.
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About the Speakers
Grace Allbaugh is a Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian at Illinois State University's Milner Library, liaising with the Sociology & Anthropology, Philosophy, and History Departments, as well as the School of Social Work. She has been a founding member of Milner Library's Mentoring Team, and current chair. Grace has been a mentor in the program since 2020 and became a mentee earlier this year.
Kirstin Duffin is a research support librarian, professor, and liaison for the science and math departments at Eastern Illinois University. As past co-chair of the ACRL STS Professional Development Committee, she helped facilitate the STS Mentoring Program from 2021–2023.
As past co-director of EIU iSTEM, a group committed to empowering underrepresented students in STEM, she coordinated a faculty mentoring program and oversaw the creation of a peer mentoring program. She is an alumnus of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (2019 cohort), during which she benefited from mentoring and after which she served as a mentor for a 2022 IRDL librarian scholar.
She holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an MS in Biology from Eastern Illinois University.
Leanne VandeCreek is an Associate Professor who currently serves as the Associate Dean for Public Services in the University Libraries at Northern Illinois University.
She and her colleague, NIU’s Associate Dean Gwen Gregory, designed, implemented, and now oversee the Libraries’ mentoring program for new faculty librarians. She also participates as a mentor and resource for others in the newly formed administrative mentoring program at NIU, designed to cultivate faculty pathways to becoming Chairs, Center Directors, and/or Associate Deans.
Prior to becoming a librarian, Leanne worked as a Clinical Social Worker in New York City and in Boston. She holds an MSW from Fordham University in New York, NY and her MSLIS from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
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