I’ve recently been getting to grips with Second Life: taking my first steps at moving and communicating, getting comfy with my ’home base’ in the RSC Wales Virtual Office, and stressing about the look of my avatar (all of which are apparently quite normal). I’m not a natural ‘gamer’, so I’m pleased when I can find a purpose to use a virtual world for something useful. Luckily a good reason has just come along: 9-15 November 2009 is Information Literacy Week in Second Life. I found out details of the event via one of Sheila Webber’s information literacy blog entries about SL, and on her Information Literacy meets Library 2.0 site you can find details of a Ning site devoted to IL week. Maybe see some of you at the event – you’ll need a SL avatar and SL installed on your computer to take part. While getting started in SL I’ve used two valuable resources: the support material in our RSC Wales Moodle and the advice available from Paul Andrews in the School of Health and Social Sciences, University of Wales Newport, on whose SL island we have our virtual office space.