%0 Journal Article %T Mentoring %A Antony Brewerton %J Liber Quarterly : The Journal of European Research Libraries %D 2002 %I %X The literature contains a wide variety of definitions. The Oxford English dictionary ¨C as you might expect ¨C gives a classical definition: mentor. 1. a. With initial capital: The name of the Ithacan noble whose disguise the goddess Athene assumed in order to act as the guide and adviser of the young Telemachus: allusively, one who fulfils the office which the supposed Mentor fulfilled towards Telemachus. b. Hence, as common noun: An experienced and trusted counsellor. [1989] %U http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/7703