Mentor and Mentee Relationship in Library and Information Science Profession
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Abstract
Mentoring has been recognized as an effective and efficient method of helping newly recruited information professionals to deal with the job challenges facing them. In most library and information science schools, the curriculum does not address the issue of mentoring as a human resource development strategy, thereby leaving new graduates to their fate in their various workplaces. Mentoring, therefore, becomes the ideal practical solution to tackle the problem headlong. This opinion paper x-rays the concepts, types and strategies, essentials, as well as challenges of mentoring in the librarianship profession. The article concludes that mentoring is a two-way mechanism in that, the old can mentor the young and vice-versa to achieve the desired changes expected. The paper recommends, among others that, there should be evolving practices that mandate practicing librarians to organise and attend job-related training at all levels to build staff capacity capable of rejigging library services to retain the best brains that can sustain library activities meaningfully.
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