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 A survey of ARL Directors in 1980 (sample 111; responding 81, including 70 male and 11 female directors) showed that77% indicated they had had a mentor during their career, including 76% of the males and 82% of the females.                (Source)

         Ibid…. showed thatthey reported the following number of mentors during their career:

                1 mentor                           25%

                2 mentors                           8%

                3 mentors                         18%

                4 mentors                         11%

                5 mentors                         13%

                more than 5                      24%

 There was little difference between male and female responses to this question.                (Source)

         Ibid…. showed that, while the highest number of both men and women reporting mentors indicated they had them during the first 5 years of professional life (78 and 8 respectively), the number of male directors reporting mentors after 10 years of professional work dropped by more than half (to 36) while the number of women reporting mentors after this time tended to remain relatively high (6).                        (Source)

        Ibid…. showed that84% considered mentoring “significant” or “very significant” to their success as compared to luck, which 45% reported as “significant” or “very significant.”                        (Source)

        Ibid…. showed that, of the 196 librarians being mentored at the time of the study, 109 (54%) were female and 87 (44%) were male. Female directors were mentoring 21 librarians (76% female; 24% male), while male directors were mentoring 175 librarians (53% female; 47% male). The percentage of women librarians in ARL libraries was 62%.                          (Source)

         Ibid…. showed thatthere were the following numbers of proteges per director)

                1 protege                            4%

                2 proteges                        34%

                3 proteges                        12%

                4 proteges                        18%

                5 proteges                        12%

                over 5 proteges                20%                  (Source)

         Ibid…. showed thatover 60% of the directors who had had mentors had proteges, while only 5% of those who had not had mentors had proteges. 19% of the directors (all male) reported having neither mentors nor proteges.                          (Source)

Dr. David Kohl

 "Libraries in the digital age are experiencing the most profound transformation since ancient Mesopotamian scribes first began gathering and organizing cuneiform tablets."

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