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Few realize the difficult job most hospital librarians have. They work in pressure-cooker atmospheres of short or impossible deadlines, multiple conflicting missions, shrinking budgets, ever-changing technology, masses of regulations and, most of all, difficult patrons. This paper will attempt to explore the difficult hospital library patron and how best to deal with him or her. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This review of the literature on mentoring academic librarians contains references to definitions of mentoring by several writers and discussions of the mentoring process and the role of participants. Benefits and pitfalls to partners and institutions of affiliation are set forth. An implication for the future may be that graduate school curricula need to address career guidance. Additional influences hinge on institutional commitments to new personnel and the interest of senior librarians in the success of junior colleagues. Publications cited are primarily from the current decade with occasional references back to the mid-1980s. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]