Volume 41, No. 4 Mar/Apr 2013 The theme for the Mar/Apr 2013 Knowledge Quest is Mentoring through Partnerships. Mentoring where collaborative partnerships form between new and existing librarians is essential to empower emerging and proficient leaders with knowledge, competencies, and networking to expand their influence on the learning community. This issue explores what one needs to understand about mentoring to impact professional practices and teaching.
AASL Members can find the current issue<http://aasl.metapress.com/home/main.mpx> on AASL's Metapress site. If you are already a member of ALA, it's about $50 additional. You can also view the entire Mentoring through Partnerships issue in an electronic flipbook in the all-new AASL eCOLLAB<http://www.ala.org/aasl/ecollab>, an elearning laboratory for AASL members and subscribers. [SLG] Here's the Table of Contents:] Mentoring through collaborative partnerships until the end of time... Frances Reeve & Audrey P. Church. Collaborating partners: An effective mentoring program for school libraries. Joyce Jones Ricks. Master Librarians: Mentoring teachers to win the technology wars. Lisa Perez. Passing the torch: Mentoring to support intellectual freedom in school libraries. Helen R. Adams. The importance of professional organizations and mentoring for leadership. Melissa P. Johnston. Against the odds: Mentoring strategies for large districts. Melissa Jacos-Israel. School and public library cooperation: A collaborative conversation. Shelley Dorril & Jane Fine. Build a successful library space with teamwork. Margaret Sullivan. Putting the citizen in science. Allison Scripa & heather Moorefield-Lang. Collaboration and technology for authentic research projects: From essential question to presentation. Sara Oremland. Technology quest column: Investigating the crime of the 20th century using 21st-century tools. Linda Humes & Lauren Newman L4L column: Strategic collaboration is L4L-ing: Remaking the universe. Mary Fran Daley. CBC Column: How to work with your brother and survive. Shirin Y8im Bridges. President's column: Mentoring in the 21st-century. Susan D. Ballard. Editors' column: Mentoring through partnerships. Ann M. Martin & Melissa P. Johnston. Discuss this issue of Knowledge Quest on Facebook: Visit: https://www.facebook.com/aaslala I'm hoping to hear from you directly or on the list re: what you chose to read if you belong to AASL, and what you hope to transfer to your own SSC environment. Stephanie (Sara Leah) Gross MSLIS, MATESOL Chair, AJL Mentoring Member, AJL Librarianship and Education Committee Pollack Library Yeshiva University 500 West 185th Street New York NY 10033-3229 212.960.5442 Skype: Stephanie.l.gross http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanielgross http://yeshiva.academia.edu/StephanieGross "As we look ahead to the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." - Bill Gates.
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