Enterprise and acumen : real world information skills and employability for business graduates

Judy Reading, Paul Jewell

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Abstract

![CDATA[Academic librarians see a significant part of their role to be supporting students to develop information literacy (IL) skills. These are generally viewed as essential graduate attributes for professional competence and lifelong learning. However, does our notion of IL match the needs of our graduates in the real world workplace? At Western Sydney University a new Bachelor of Business course started in 2016 with a focus on ‘enterprise’ and the contemporary Australian business environment. The Library saw this as an opportunity to improve support for the School of Business by reviewing our IL practice and further integrating IL into the curriculum, informed by research into IL in the workplace. Our project 'Information Literacy and Employability…' explores which IL skills are of practical value to newly graduating students in the workplace and of greatest value to their employers. We aim to do this by interviewing twelve individuals with experience of supervising recent graduates within the workplace and twelve working graduates.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEngage Create Lead: ALIA National 2016 Conference, Adelaide, S.A., 29 August - 2 September
PublisherALIA
Number of pages11
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventAustralian Library and Information Association. Conference -
Duration: 1 Jan 2016 → …

Conference

ConferenceAustralian Library and Information Association. Conference
Period1/01/16 → …

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Keywords

  • information literacy
  • university graduates
  • business education
  • Western Sydney University
  • Centre for Western Sydney
  • education
  • Western Sydney (N.S.W.)
  • New South Wales
  • Australia

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