I went to a very interesting presentation at the Vitae conference on the Researcher Development Framework – badged as “a tool for planning, promoting and supporting the personal, preofessional and career development of researchers” I was pleased to hear that the framework goes beyond just describing competencies or skills and addresses knowledge, behaviours and personal qualities as well. This sits much better with my own understanding of information literacy as being about attitudes, habits and behaviours relating to information, rather than just skills in managing it and I could see how IL could sit comfortably within the new framework.
The proposed framework builds on the Joint Skills Statement, with a matrix of “domains” and “descriptors” based around 5 levels of development. From the small section I saw, there are definitely elements of IL already present. It will be released for consultation soon and I look forward to seeing the whole framework and hopefully contributing to it’s final form.

Hadrian’s Wall, Lanercost.