Mind maps and Information literacy

I am now in the process developing my 3rd concept map representing school leadership (it seemed a little extreme to me too!). However, when explaining to a family member why I was doing this instead of writing my essay, the penny dropped. I realised that I needed to go through this process of refining, redrawing and re-conceptualising in order to get to the point where I could actually (be happy with) and use the concept map to develop a narrative.

The simplicity of the map belies the complexity and amount of work that has gone into creating it but having said that, I am very pleased I didn't stick with my initial ones.

On another note this is an interesting paper which some of you may find useful.  

Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environment, a white paper published by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL).