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 as the Personal Learning Network, and peer mentoring, “mentoring moments” (rather than a longer relationship), the use of Twitter in conjunction with other platforms, and the use of Twitter to identify a mentor.
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