Thanks to all of you who sent me information on coordinators of
   regional mentoring efforts.  Hopefully, I will find the time to
   actually call these people.  I received many responses but they all
   pointed to Mountain Plains and NEMA--are these the only two regions
   with mentoring programs?

   However, I NEED more information...certainly, if these efforts are
   on-going in the regional associations, there MUST be people who
   have been involved with them.  I would really love to get some
   feedback from you.  Tell me what you think--tell me what kinds of
   experiences you got from being involved, whether you were involved
   in the organization, you were a mentor, or you were a
   "mentee".  For those of you who have taken part in other mentoring
   programs outside of AAM or the regional museum associations, please
   feel free to respond as well.  All ideas are good ideas, all
   thoughts will be considered, all suggestions taken seriously...
   I have recently been appointed the chair of the Registrars
   Committee (AAM) Mentoring Task Force and am feeling very proud and
   honored and scared to be named as such.  I feel that since I am an
   early-career professional, my thoughts for goals and objectives
   will serve to address the frustrations that I (and others in my
   situation) feel while neglecting other parts of the professional
   community.  I would like to get an idea of what kinds of things
   well-established professionals would like to see from a mentoring
   program in order to incorporate them.  You need not be a registrar
   to respond to me (although if you are, GREAT!!) because ideas from
   all over can be incorporated into this effort.

   Please feel free to respond to the list in general if you feel
   everyone could benefit from your response.  If you do, however, I
   ask that you also cc your response to my personal email address
   (listed below) as I am "digested" and find it hard to wade through
   all the messages to get the ones pertaining directly to my query.

   Thanks again.
   Jennifer
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