Destination: information
Our library staff development day today. Training on Information Literacy without mentioning those two words. Set up by our inhouse training lady we had 5 teams of 6 each given a holiday to plan. (From two center trips to Russia to hen night shopping sprees in New York to slightly more local ecoholidays).

In the morning each team collected the info they needed (and had a briefing from the map librarian on his resources including printing vast posters) and in the afternoon they had to create a poster of whatever size they wanted and then do a presentation.

The presentation wasn't so much on their holiday as in their process of finding out what they needed.

Meanwhile some of us weren't allowed to 'play' because we'd be detailed off to be various experts (I was an "IT consultant") which meant roaming around the different teams and helping, offering advice, and resisting the urge to tell them I'd put them on a 3 day waiting list for assistance.

Then our boss wrapped it up with some theory, learning points and discussion.

It was interesting watching library staff from all grades reverting to student stereotype and almost exclusively relying on Google - despite all sorts of other material that was available. But everyone had a great day and some terrific posters were produced.