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Smith  \nAbstract  \nThe purpose of this study was to determine how providing pre-service school librarians with mentors during their degree program impacted their level of self-perceived transformational leadership potential. The study consisted of 30 participants enrolled in a school library certification master’s degree program emphasizing leadership. The findings indicated that the use of mentors had a positive impact on the leadership development of the participants. Moreover, the combination of the leadership training and the experience of having a mentor taught the participants the behaviors that are desirable in mentors and encouraged them to apply mentorship asa leadership role in their schools.  \nIntroduction  \nThe research reported here is a subset of a larger study. The original study was designed to examine the social contextual variables that impacted the leadership behaviors of pre-service school librarians enrolled in a master’s degree program. This degree program was specifically designed to emphasize leadership development. The participants of this study were recruited into the program because of their leadership potential.  \nMentorship was just one of the social contextual variables studied. The program directors wanted each participant to have a mentor who was already established in the profession. The rational for including mentorsin the program was to develop an additional support system that extended into the school district for the participants. Mentors were asked to help the participants with their coursework and to acclimate them to the profession. The directors relied on the school library media program supervisors in each partnering school district to identify suitable mentors.  \nUpon the conclusion of the research, it was discovered that the provision of mentors had a great influence on the students’ degree program experience. This outcome was unexpected because mentorship was the least structured aspect of the program. While the directors knew it was important to pair each student with a mentor, they did not require specific tasks for each mentor. Instead, the mentors were invited to three meetings during the degree program. Otherwise, the program directors did not interfere in the development of the participants’interactions or relationships with their mentors.  \nThe purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the availability of mentors on the self-perceived transformational leadership practices ofthe pre-service school librarians enrolled in the program. The following questions guided the investigation.  \n1. What were the characteristics of the participants’ interactions with their mentors?  \n2. How did the availability of mentors facilitate the transformational leadership development of the participants?  \nThere has been much discussion regarding how school librarians can develop leadership skills and improve the perceptions oftheir role in schools (Everhart & Dresang, 2007; Smith, 2010) . One approach to changing the perceptions of school librarians and increasing their influence is to teach them how to be transformational leaders (Smith, 2009) . The program the participants were enrolled in was an attempt to do so. For this reason, the findings ofthis study can help improve the understanding of how mentoring can be incorporated into school library certification programs to help school librarians learn transformational leadership skills.  \nEducation Libraries, Volume 36, Number 1, Summer 2013  \nLiterature Review  \nThe Connection between Mentoring and Leadership  \nTransformational leadership is the theoretical framework of this study. It is a bottom up leadership approach that emphasizes collaboration, harmonious relationships, and the ability of all community stakeholders to create positive shifts in organizational culture (Bass & Bass, 2008; Burns, 2003) . While appointed leaders can ","cbCaimDLsezAcak0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimDLsezAcak0","pdf",306454,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Research purpose and questions\n## Mentor structure and program context\n# Literature Review\n## The Connection between Mentoring and Leadership","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of the study?\",\"answer\":\"To determine how providing mentors to pre-service school librarians during their degree program affected their self-perceived transformational leadership potential.\"},{\"question\":\"How was mentoring implemented in the program?\",\"answer\":\"Program directors paired participants with mentors and invited them to three meetings during the degree program without requiring specific mentor tasks.\"},{\"question\":\"What relationship does the literature suggest between mentoring and leadership?\",\"answer\":\"Mentoring is described as an indicator of transformational leadership because transformational leaders act as role models and mentoring supports leadership development behaviors and organizational readiness.\"}]","The Role of Mentoring in the Leadership Development of Pre-Service School Librarians | PDF",1792093131,23]