So what is the NZ/Australian Cohort for 23 Mobile Things all about? Read on.
What are the 23 Mobile Things?
- Taking a photo with a mobile device: Instagram / Flickr app / Snapchat
- eMail on the move
- Maps and checking in: Foursquare
- Photos + Maps + Apps: Historypin / What was there / Sepia Town
- Video: YouTube and screencasts
- Communicate: Skype / Google Hangout
- Calendar
- QR codes
- Social reading: RSS / Flipboard / Feedly / Goodreads / Pocket
- Augmented reality: Layar
- Games: Angry Birds / Wordfeud
- Online identity: FaceBook and LinkedIn
- Curating: Pinterest / Scoop.it / Tumblr
- Adobe ID
- eBooks and eBook apps: Project Gutenberg / Kindle / Overdrive / Bluefire / Kobo, etc.
- Evernote and Zotero
- Productivity tools: Doodle / Remember the Milk / Hackpad / any.do / 30/30
- File sharing: Dropbox
- Music: last.fm / Spotify
- Voice interaction and recording
- eResources vendor apps
- Digital storytelling
You can view the 23 Mobile Things on the official blog here – http://23mobilethings.net/wpress/the-things/
What is this NZ/Australian cohort all about?
simple; it is just establishing a group of librarians in NZ and Australia who are keen to do the 23 Mobile Things at the same time. This cohort will give us mutual support and contact with each other so that we can learn together and keep each other motivated. Hopefully it will help you grow your own personal learning network (PLN) and have fun and great collaborations throughout the course!
Who can take part?
Anyone! This is not limited to New Professionals, but is open to anyone who would like to take part – whether newer or older to the profession. I have just put the contact form on the New Professionals blog as that is a place where I know many people will find it. We are creating another blog specifically for this NZ/Australian cohort that will be the hub of our conversations and connections. So please sign up and let’s all learn from one another and have fun playing with mobile technologies! Over 60 people have signed up already; this is going to be such a fantastic group to be a part of 
(It’s mainly NZ’ers at the moment so come on Australian’s sign up!)
What do I need to take part?
- Access to a mobile device (e.g. iPad, tablet, smart-phone, etc…) – if you don’t have one yourself, you could borrow one or use the PC applications to understand the general principles.
- Time to dedicate to investigating the 23 things – it seems most people are keen to do 1 Thing a week so you can dedicate as much or as little time as you need to exploring that thing and engaging in chatting and collaborating with others on the course.
- Willingness to collaborate, experiment, and support each other – it’s going to be fun!
How do I sign up?
So you’re keen? Great! Here’s what you have to do to get involved:
- fill in the contact form on the blog
- vote in the poll for best time-frame for the course
- share the news with friends/colleagues
We will be in touch as we create a blog as a hub for the group, a Facebook group (if you are keen) and organize some online real-time events such as Twitter chats and Google+ hangouts so that we can chat and collaborate. It will also give us an opportunity to put into practice what we have been learning!
We are hoping to start with Thing 1 the first week of May. If the course runs for six months (approximately 1 Thing a week), it will finish at the end of November.
So what are you waiting for? Sign up today and we will be in touch again a bit closer to the date.
If you want more information please don’t hesitate to email me (Kate) at my gmail account (take off the no spam) or on twitter at @katejf.
Abigail Willemse (NZ) and Kate Freedman (NGAC) and Hiba Kanji (NGG)(AUS)
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And have a play with the ngram viewer. I used the terms ‘libraries’ and ‘librarians’. There was a peak in 1970s and a decline since then. Uh oh! Or does this just mean that those topics are now being written about in non-book formats?
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B is for the Birkenstocks that keep Hoi’s feet alive
C is for the conferences and industry gatherings
D is for the dinner that Jo wished she didn’t have to cook
E is for the evening out, the sun set, take a look
F is for the friendship when opposites attract
G is for the great company and drinking chocolate hot
H is for the handlebars featured in Mal’s shot
I is for the iPhone app the Farmers market has
J is for the jamming folk rock duo, no not jazz
K is for the Kolding Bibliotek
L is for the Little Women memories
M is for the mutterings about the literacies
N is for the noisy places in which busking can occur
O is for the Olives for which JayGee has a cure
P is for the Peter, Lord Wimsey is his name
Q is for the question should I stand or should I go
R is for the rules to which staff discretion might say no!
S is for the Significance, degrees of which unknown
T is for the travelling when time has really flown
U is for the Urban conservation studies in Kew
V is for the Voice, Jenelle’s a fan of you
W is for the two Wes Moores by the grace of God they go
X is for the cross reference – would this cookbook help for Jo?
W is for the Webby’s revealing keepmeout
Y is for the Yesterday in which the posts were all let out
Z is for the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz a lazy day includes
I can’t be bothered making sure they all scan and rhyme,
Any guesses, gentle readers, which tune is in my head?
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- Spam Spam Spam (just kidding about this category)
- Timing
- Turkey and coriander balls in tomato sauce
- Turkey and coriander balls (Yep those meatballs go a long way)
Crafty Work
- Learning to Crochet
- Stash Plans – Man Socks
- Stash plans – cowl neck scarf
- Friday Scrap Class
- Saturday Crop Day
Up Close and Personal
Crowd Sourcing – your thoughts wanted
Cultural Pursuits
- Film Review – Super 8
- Red Riders on Stage for the last time at OAF (Image)
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek – Bavarian State Library
- fear
- This Busker at Penn was Amazing (Image)
Concerning Books
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I used Tagul (beta) to create the tag cloud. I also created a custom search engine in Google to search across the blogs taking part in the challenge. The search engine is linked into the tags, but the date range and indexing of posts is not quite what I was hoping for.
BTW – I’m not actually taking part in the challenge over at Inn0vate.
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The simultaneous bit starts at 11.00am AEST today.
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I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. 
Benjamin Wheal from the South Australian Library & Information Network (SALIN) Committee wrote to tell us about their latest exploit. He writes….
“We’re a grass-roots, unaffiliated group which creates networking and professional development opportunities for people in the Library sector in South Australia (especially for newer graduates). In 2010 we’re 10 years young. This year the SALIN Committee has chosen to celebrate our profession through production of the 2011 calendar "Zombies in the Library". The calendar covers such topics as the role of the Zombie in reference, the frustrations faced when the Undead hog the photocopier, and for cataloguers, poses the eternal question: 299.675 or 398.21?
The point behind creating the calendar was to develop professional skills by doing something different and creative … and we hope that Library folk will get a good laugh along the way. We consider the final product an achievement, an oddity, and something of interest to the profession.”
Proceeds will cover costs of production and after that will go to local charities. So if you love a little zombie-esque time management, this calendar is a must-have. Might also make a good Christmas gift for your quirky loved ones.
Can a cataloguer comment and remind us what those numbers are for? It’s been a long time since I catalogued with Dewey!
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The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) produces the IFLA World Report a biennial series that reports on the state of countries of the world relating to freedom of information, freedom of expression and other related issues.
So I checked out the 2010 report on Australia, fully expecting that I would know everything that was there. Not so. The report was quite interesting and reported on numbers of libraries – broken down by type, libraries and the Internet – including filtering used and national policy towards it, legal issues, open access, social issues, ethics and more.
You can view individual or multiple country reports, using the Google Map to access them, either in full or customised form. You can also access the Analysis and Conclusions of the World Report 2010 and comment on the whole report.
Well worth a view and an interesting insight into libraries and information worldwide.
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If you missed it too, here are just a few links I found of interest in the closing days.
Did your library celebrate?
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