The Northwest Archivists Mentoring Program: A Case Study

This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the author(s) and published by the Society of American Archivists. The published article can be found at: http://archivists.metapress.com/home/main.mpx.The Northwest Archivists (NWA), a regional archival association in the Pacific\ud Northwest, established a formal mentoring program in 2007. A pilot phase of the\ud program ran for 2 years and included both formative and summative assessments\ud from participants. This case study documents NWA’s experiences designing and\ud managing a mentoring program within a volunteer-run professional association,\ud reflects on the program’s successes and challenges, and recommends areas for\ud future investigation