#TwitMentoring
Librarians Using Twitter in Forming and Cultivating Mentoring Relationships
A.J. Willemse, Counties Manukau Health Library, Auckland, New Zealand
Abstract
Mentoring is a valuable concept for professional development in many professions, including library and information science. Mentoring is typically thought of as a hierarchical relationship between an experienced person and a novice, but there are many evolving definitions of mentoring. Librarians use Twitter to form supportive relationships with other information professionals that contain elements of mentoring. This research identified a number of themes arising from the data, including the tension between traditional and informal mentoring, alternate models such ...
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