To all CUL staff:
Are you looking for an opportunity to help your colleagues make the most of their careers? Are you interested in playing a role in welcoming newly hired staff and helping them stay informed? How about providing opportunities to connect staff-both librarians in the promotion process and non-academic staff interested in exploring career options-with experienced staff to guide them? Well, you're in luck! The
Dear CUL,
The Library Forum Career Development Committee is looking for volunteers for the NEW! CDC seeking volunteers to serve on the newly-revamped Mentoring Committee.
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Term length: Between one and two years
Committee size: Two to five members
Time commitment: approximately 2-hours per week
DRAFT CHARGE
The mission of the CUL mentorship committee is to facilitate and support the development of mentorship opportunities for all interested staff membersThe CUL mentorship programs mission is to facilitate the development of high-quality, high-impact mentoring programs that address the most critical challenges facing library workers in an innovative combination of partnership and ongoing support.
The committee will be responsible for:
* Recruiting mentors
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* Matching mentors and
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mentees for both academic and non-academic staff, based on individual needs and
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interests
* Support mentoring relationships to ensure mutual benefit
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* Scheduling networking and learning events and
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* Conducting an annual assessment of overall program and review of the charge
Publicity from the committee to CUL?
Members shall serve for 1 or 2 year terms. The Mentoring Committee is being re-created as a subcommittee of the Career Development Committee with a new charge that includes all staff. Because of this new charge, we anticipate that the first few months will involve a fair amount of structuring and organizing.
If this sounds like a good fit for you, please send an email stating your interest in serving on the committee by 05/31 to Boaz Nadav-Manes (btn3@cornell.edu)
Thank you,
Career Development Committee
Boaz Nadav-Manes, (chair), btn3, 5-5762
Eisha Prather, (co-chair), elp48, 5-3530
Eveline Ferretti, ef15, 4-4993
Pete Magnus, pam62, 5-4436
Leah Solla, lrm1, 5-1361
Neely Tang, nt243, 5-9241
Lynn Thitchener, lmk7, 5-4985
Carla DeMello, (Library Forum Steering Committee liaison), cd58, 4-7286
Linda Bryan,(ex officio) lgb4, 5-8587
The Career Development Committee shall promote and provide continuing education and career development programming for all interested staff of Cornell University Library. Programming efforts should be diverse, targeting both general and more specialized audiences*Mentoring is for everyone. New to the Library? The mentoring committee can help you find a orientation buddy? What to get published? Let the mentoring committee help you identify a published author in the library? Up for promotion? Let us connect you with someone who has successfully been through the process? Want to learn a new skill? Want to...