Mentoring
Submitted by: Sarah Sutton
Completed Activities
Members
Sarah Sutton, chair (Texas A&M University-Corpus
Christi)
Taryn Resnick, vice-chair (Texas A&M University
Medical Sciences Library)
Stephen Clark, board liaison (College of William & Mary)
Continuing Activities
The mentoring forum on the NASIG web page continued
to show little activity. The Group has not conducted an
official analysis to determine why this is the case, but
notes that there is relatively little activity in any of the
NASIG forums. The return of NASIG-L may have had
some impact.
The Mentoring Group will complete its committee
manual this year.
The mentoring program at the 2011 Conference was an
overall success. Twenty-eight mentor/mentee pairs
were matched prior to the conference, and an
additional twelve pairs were matched during the First
Timers/Mentoring Reception on the first day of the
conference for a total of 80 participants (40 pairs). This
is a significant increase over 2010 and is likely due in
part to the 2010/11 chairs being prepared to make
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matches during the reception based on the 2009/10
chairs’ experience.
The First Timers/Mentoring Reception was well
attended by mentors and mentees, as well as some first
time attendees who had not registered as mentees
before the conference. However, there were few
experienced NASIG conference attendees at the
reception, which made making on-the-spot matches
somewhat more difficult. This might be avoided in the
future by putting out a call to those experienced NASIG
conference attendees and inviting them to attend the
reception, even if they are not paired with a mentee
prior to the conference. Our thanks goes to those
NASIG conference attendees who did attend the 2011
reception (including several Board members) and were
gracious enough to step in as mentors at the last
minute.
After the 2011 conference, the Mentoring Group
conducted a survey of 2011 mentors and mentees
about their experience. The survey was conducted via
the NASIG Survey Monkey account and we received a
total of fifty responses (a 62.5% response rate since all
mentors and mentees, including those who were paired
on-the-spot at the conference, were invited to
respond). A summary of their responses is included
below:
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who had little contact with their mentor/mentee
after their initial meeting.
The incoming chair, vice-chair, and board liaison met
during the conference to plan activities and activities for
the upcoming year. These included conducting and
analyzing the Mentoring Post-Conference Survey,
writing the group’s annual report, and completing the
group’s committee manual.
Budget
The Mentoring Group does not require funding for its
activities for 2011/12.
100% of mentors and 84.2% of mentees responding attended the reception .
79 % (38) rated their overall experience as “good” or “great ,” 17 % (8) rated it as “ok, neither great nor terrible,” and 4% (2) rated it a “poor” experience. (...truncated)