About

We were getting tired of professional development that was just about making us better administrators.

Mid-career is long and can be profoundly lonely: many mid-career library workers are in positions that didn’t exist or were fundamentally different 10-20 years ago. If libraries are transforming, it is because of us, and that creative pressure and effort can lead to demotivation, burnout, and attrition. Mid-career resources are few and far between, and the bulk of the resources that are available are intended for organizations rather than for individuals.

Vision: PeMento makes mid-career less lonely for library workers.

Mission: PeMento delivers a lightweight, individual-focused mid-career peer-mentoring cohort experience for library workers.

PeMento is designed to create space for participants to explicitly reflect on and explore career motivations. We have found that these connections and support networks are critical to have beyond your home institution, where we all have differing levels of support (including complete lack of support!). And let’s face it, even with support and resources, it can still be awkward to have career growth conversations with colleagues at our home organization, or even to strategize at an individual level about what we really want. 

So we’re going to put together peer mentoring cohorts that allow us the candid and safe spaces to do that.

Founders:
Ashley Krenelka Chase
Lindsay Cronk
Maurini Strub
Rachel M. Fleming

Co-Creators:
Brianna Marshall
Lindsay Cronk