I can't believe how much hard work is involved in doing an assignment! When Jordan was home form Uni last Easter he commented that he didn't know what all the fuss was. He said he and his friends wrote an essay in a week, unlike me, who took about 5 weeks of constant work to complete the last assignment! I did point out it was 30 years since my last essay, it didn't seem to make him any more sympathetic though!

I am beginning to realise what a wonderful network it is belonging to a group of TLs. One of the Librarians at my school just emailed us all this link of the Draft IL Framework for Wales. It was just published in March 2011. I really like their definition of IL:

They have adopted the definition by CLIP (2004) "Information literacy is knowing when and why you need information, where to find it, and how to evaluate, use and communicate it in an ethical manner."

The whole document is easy to read - very user friendly. If you are keen to have a look here is the link:

http://library.wales.org/information-literacy/national-information-literacy-framework/

For some reason the link doesn't seem to work while I am on the 'editing page' of the blog. Hopefully it will when it's published. If not just copy and paste it onto a word documnet and it should be fine.

I don't start my job as TL until August, but already helpful people in the TL network are emailing me authors who are visiting Singapore in the next 12 months. It is a wonderful sense of 'belonging' -that there are people out there happy to help you out. I am also lucky enough to be moving into a wonderful team of people at my school. I can't wait!