[Asis-l] Join the 2004 UNC SILS Mentoring Celebration

[Andy Ingham]

Folks --

While this is (for obvious reasons) primarily geared toward alumni of 
the School of Information and Library Science here at UNC-Chapel Hill, 
I'd like to extend the invitation to those on this wider list. We all 
have so much to offer to the next generation of information professionals!

Thanks for your consideration,
Andy

Andy Ingham
Systems Librarian
University Libraries
UNC-Chapel Hill
919-962-1288
andy_ingham at unc.edu


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The School of Information and Library Science Alumni Association 
(SILSAA), Librarians’ Association at UNC-Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH), North 
Carolina Special Libraries Association (NCSLA), and Beta Phi Mu* *invite 
you to become part of the exciting 2004 annual “Mentoring 
Celebration--Building Our Future” at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of 
Information and Library (SILS). This celebration will be held during the 
week of March 22-26.

Here in the Triangle, we will match librarians and information 
specialists with eager SILS students for the 2004 Mentoring Celebration 
on a day of your choice during that week. We encourage participating 
mentors to make creative arrangements that best fit your schedules and 
interests. In the past, many people have spent the morning/afternoon/day 
in their workplaces with their students, perhaps taking them out to 
lunch or planning other activities. Your plans could include an in-depth 
tour of your work environment and a chance for the student to spend some 
time with a librarian or information specialist on site. We hope to have 
participants from public, academic, medical, law, government, school, 
and special libraries, as well as the gamut of information science 
specialties. To be a mentor you do not have to be a senior librarian or 
information specialist with years of experience--in fact, your 
perspective as someone new to the field may be especially interesting to 
students.

If you are interested in hosting a SILS student during the Mentoring 
Celebration, please go to the SILS web page at 
http://ils.unc.edu/ils/silslab/html/mentoring.html by February 20 and 
complete the requested information. We cannot promise to make an exact 
match, but please indicate on the form your areas of interest or 
specialization to assist the sponsoring organizations in pairing mentors 
with students. We will send you your student’s name and e-mail address 
by March 5 so that you can begin making your plans.

We would like to expand the Mentoring Celebration so that alumni from 
all across the country can participate. We urge those of you who do not 
live in the Triangle area to identify someone in your community who may 
be interested in librarianship or information science. We especially 
hope that you will take your prospective librarian/information 
specialist to lunch and talk with him or her about our program here at 
UNC-Chapel Hill--after all, SILS is ranked as Number One in the nation 
among schools of library and information science by the U.S. News and 
World Report! Please let us know if you plan to mentor a prospective 
student, and the office will send information about SILS for you to 
share with your student. By mirroring what we are doing here in Chapel 
Hill, you can be not only an active participant in our alumni activities 
but also a valuable advocate for SILS. Alumni from other areas are 
welcome to call or e-mail me to talk about how you might participate in 
our program.

Remember.... You are the "Mentor" in this Mentoring Celebration--please 
join us to build our professional future and to share your perspective 
about the profession with current and future students.

Andy Ingham, President
SILS Alumni Association