IFLA Volume 46 Number 3 October 2020 IFLA Contents Articles Designing a mentoring program for faculty librarians 197 Erla P. Heyns and Judith M. Nixon Transformational and transactional leadership and knowledge sharing in Nigerian university libraries 207 C. I. Ugwu, O. B. Onyancha and M. Fombard Knowledge management and innovation: Two explicit intentions pursued by Spanish university libraries 224 Ana R. Pacios National and international trends in library and information science research: A comparative review of the literature 234 Mallikarjun Dora and H. Anil Kumar Taxonomy design methodologies: Emergent research for knowledge management domains 250 Virginia M. Tucker The effect of information literacy instruction on lifelong learning readiness 259 Leili Seifi, Maryam Habibi and Mohsen Ayati Semantic modeling for education of library and information sciences in Iran, based on Soft Systems Methodology 271 Amir Hessam Radfar, Fatima Fahimnia, Mohammad Reza Esmaeili and Moluk al-Sadat Beheshti Abstracts 290 Aims and Scope IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries. The Journal publishes research, case studies and essays that reflect the broad spectrum of the profession internationally. 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IFLA Article International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 2020, Vol. 46(3) 197–206 Designing a mentoring program ª The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: for faculty librarians sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0340035220906604 journals.sagepub.com/home/ifl Erla P. Heyns Purdue University Libraries, USA Judith M. Nixon Purdue University Libraries, USA Abstract This article describes the Purdue University Libraries mandatory co-mentoring program. Surveys with all Purdue University Libraries faculty librarians and select follow-up interviews were conducted. This program supports all faculty librarians and differs from other mentoring programs since it is team-based, includes the supervisor, and advises on promotion. These Faculty Review Committees integrate performance reviews with progress toward promotion and have the responsibility to prepare written annual reviews and evaluations, and represent the candidate at the promotion review. The program is considered very effective at Purdue University Libraries and a unique model. This program is also compared to four other ARL co-mentoring programs using a survey and follow-up interviews. Keywords Academic libraries, faculty librarians, library management, mentoring Submitted: 26 September 2019; Accepted: 22 January 2020. Introduction (Goodsett and Walsh, 2015). First, it is a co- The search for a new librarian is completed. The job mentoring program, one that has more than one offer has been made and accepted; the new librarian’s tenured librarian, including the supervisor and a full first day has arrived. After the effort to attract a high professor, serving as the mentors for one mentee. The quality applicant, everyone from the Dean on down second distinctive feature is that the mentoring teams wants the new librarian to succeed. In the background formally advise on contract and promotion decisions. is the pending decision of continuing contracts, and The first research question for this article is possibly promotion and tenure. A crucial step in the whether this program is unique or distinctive when career advancement of faculty librarians is mentoring. compared to other ARL Libraries. The second ques- The literature is clear: mentoring helps, especially for tion is whether it is effective in providing feedback newly hired (Nankivell and Shoolbred, 1997). At and mentoring for career development for librarians at Purdue University Libraries, the new librarian would Purdue University Libraries, and the third question is receive mentoring and evaluation for promotion whether the program has had an impact on promotion decisions from a group of mentors, referred to as a rates and scholarly productivity. The research method co-mentoring program in the mentoring literature. is surveys and follow-up interviews. This article is a case study reporting the mentoring team approach at Purdue University Libraries that was designed and implemented in 2009 based on a Corresponding author: review of the needs of the Purdue University Libraries Erla P. Heyns, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies, Humanities, Social Science, Education and rather than on any other existing programs. It is dif- Business Division, Stewart Center 252, 504 West State Street, ferent from many traditional mentoring programs, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. which are usually one mentor to one mentee Email: [email protected] 198 IFLA Journal 46(3) For this paper, we view a mentoring program as a publication record were less effective than those who support program to the peer review process that is published. Institutional commitment to mentoring standard at universities for all faculty members. Most contributed to its success, and formal mentoring was libraries with faculty status develop some support for found to be more effective than informal or unstruc- newly appointed untenured librarians, in either formal tured programs (Goodsett and Walsh, 2015). Mentor- or informal ways. If the program is unstructured, even ing structures are different among institutions and if well-established through tradition, it is an informal they take the form of one-on-one mentoring, group, program. The program at Purdue University Libraries or co-mentoring programs; and the length of the men- discussed in this paper is a formal mentoring program toring relationship also varies among institutions that provides support for the peer review process and (Osif, 2008).