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Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences
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INFORMAL LEARNING IN THE WORKPLACE: THE ROLE OF
UNCONFERENCES
ALISON MCNAB DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY
@ALISONMCNAB #MashDMU#ILI2012 Internet Librarian International 2012 C202: Rethinking Roles: New skills, new learning
WHY INFORMAL LEARNING?
• Staff development budgets• Disruptive technologies
– Social media
• The unconference “movement”• Freedom to explore
– Training Time Entitlement
An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees, sponsored presentations, and top-down organization. Wikipedia
Oxford Dictionaries
STAFF DEVELOPMENT
• Formal– Remember the Library “training hour”?– Internal vs external training– Organisation-led staff development
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Informal– Unconferences: MashLib, TeachMeets, Library Camp– Twitter: TweetUps, #LibChat– 23 Things– In-house library conferences
#MashDMU – MAKING IT LOCAL
• Regular meetings
• A hashtag!
• The #MashDMU blog
http://librarymashups.our.dmu.ac.uk/
#MashDMU – MAKING IT LOCAL
• Sharing good practice
• Up-skilling staff
• Service development– Enhancing the student experience
• #MashDMU
• Analogue Twitter
CHALLENGES
• Staff working patterns• Reticence about social media• Need to stop listening and start sharing!
• Extending the format– e-books unconference
REFERENCES
• Analogue Twitter Timothy Collinson, University of Portsmouth @timpaa
http://www.port.ac.uk/library/about/librarians/collinson/
• How to run an unconference (Lanyrd blog)http://lanyrd.com/blog/2012/unconference-howto/
• Mashed Library wikihttp://www.mashedlibrary.com/
Thank you!
Any Questions?
Alison [email protected]
#AlisonMcNab
http://librarymashups.our.dmu.ac.uk/