The last month has been spent mainly organiising the final preperations for our new classes, teaching my own classes and also arranging some projects involving information literacy. In addition my chartership has been gathering place including a visit I paid to the City Chambers Library.

In terms of our new timetable I have been involved in organising the recruitment of students. This requires many marketing initiatives and also phonecalls but it is good to engage with the learners in this way. This has been done to a greater level with my teaching of two classes, one in Basic Computing and one in Internet Skills. This has made me nervous but I feel I did well. I still have to develop my tutoring skills so that I find the best approaches but the learning curves within these classes have been steep and worthwhile. The students have been happy it seems with what they have learned and only a few teething problems have disrupted things. I pln to do more soon.

I also took part in a visit arranged by my chartership mentor. This was good as I saw the workings of a completely different library and one that is largely a legal one. This had many differences and was ultimately a very rewarding day that allowed a detailed write up of another service. I will return this visit in October.

With this complete I know plan to spend the next month completing the last of my eveidence and starting to bring my portfolio together in time to submit in October/November, I have written the first draft of my personal statement and will complete this shortly.