Today a class of direct entry computing students. All Nigerians as it happens.

What was different for me was that a junior colleague came along to 'peer review' the session. She was very impressed that I could pick up on a couple of clues to greet them in a local language and introduce the sesssion with an encomium on the year I spent in their country.

I'm hoping though that I can winkle out of her though any formal comments she makes in the process but I understand how hard it can be to allow such things to be seen by their subject. The one commiseration I did receive as we walked back to the Library was the oft noted observation that we get very little time to convey an awful lot of information.

Which I could take as a criticism of how much I cover, or just as sympathy that there's little way round it. (If we assume that persuading academics to give us more time is a non-starter). I'm more and more inclined to think that perhaps such sessions shouldn't be an attempt to tell them anything at all except here's the Library homepage, here's all the help we offer to navigate this stuff whether electronic or print.

Here, now, on one of my odd late Friday nights. (Till 8.45pm)