Wandering Wirelessly over the Ditch: A Professional

Development Collaboration

Abigail Willemse

LIANZA Conference 2013

Hamilton Oct 20-23

Wednesday 11:15-11:45AM

The potential of 23 Mobile Things…

What are the 23 Mobile Things?

Where does ANZ 23 Mobile Things fit?

• Jan Holmquist’s original 23 Mobile Things (in Danish) – Bibliotekerene - 2012

• Mylee Joseph’s & Kathryn Barwick’s English translation – April 2013

• Our version – May-November 2013

Meet Jan –creator of 23 Mobile Things

Participants by country

Country Number

Australia 451

New Zealand 309

United States 6

South Africa 4

Hong Kong 2

Canada 1

Indonesia 1

United Kingdom 1

TOTAL 775

Participants by library sector

“Late Adopter of New Technologies”Vine from Petra Dumbell @pezii (Austrian living in Australia)

Mixing the old and the new…

Figure 1: Initial Questionnaire: New Professional.

Bridging the gap

• Marketed for new professionals

• But ‘older’ professionals asked to join in!

• Allowed for mentoring opportunities

Successful elements

• Weekly e-mails

• Variety of media utilised

• Peer-mentoring opportunities

• Social activities

• Timetable

Something new each week!Vine by Karen du Toit @karentoittoit (South Africa)

Peer-mentoring

• Provides opportunity for experts to be included in the programme

• Mentors can help share responsibility for running the programme

• People who are new have peer mentors who are ‘experts’ they can turn to

Here, there, and everywhereVine by Corrine Hinton @CorrineHinton (New Zealand)

Challenges

• Time – maintaining enthusiasm over 6 months!

• Tracking participants

• People picking & choosing things

• Device usage

• Time-zone challenges with synchronous activities

Are you still with us?

Lots of different devices…

Reading along the lines – QR CodesVine by Jenny Mustey @rurallibrarian1 (Australia)

Takeaway points

1. Definitely a place for collaboration between NZ and Australian colleagues. This course has established a network which could be utilised in the future.

Takeaway points

2. Synchronous interactions, like Twitter chats, are a useful way to interact across time zones.

Takeaway points

3. While NZ and Australia are similar, there is also a lot that is different.

Focusing on points of difference will help us to invigorate and compare our services.

ANZ 23 Mobile Things – Singing its praisesVideo by Katherine @Krazozem (Australia)

Where to next?

• Final thing (Thing 23!) next week and then a final reflection week

• A break for a little while!

• Maybe another course or variation further on?

• You decide!

Any questions?

• @ajwillemse91

• octopuslibrarian.wordpress.com

Thank you for coming!