1. Information Literacy and employability
What does it look like?

2. Session Overview Introduction DMU View Influencing factors Practice
What will it look like at your institution?
How can you embed employability into your practice

3. DMU View: Research project
Explored prospect of graduate skills licence
Confirmed place of information literacy in employability
based on CBI, Arcadia, Llida, SCONUL 7 pillars and own practice
Developed framework to evaluate graduate level information literacy based on above
Made new connections: external and internal

4. Hurdles to implementation
Top down influence
Major promotion and buy-in required
HEAR

5. Back door? New connections and developments:
Commercial awareness workshops
Digital branding
Careers and employability
Employability weeks
Frontrunners
Employability, careers and placements libguide
In curriculum: real contexts, new language

6. Your institutional view?
How can you embed employability into your everyday practice?
What could you do to strengthen the role of employability in your service?
Work in groups to produce an image enriched mind map to explore what this would look like or mean in everyday practice

7. Let’s share…….

8. Objective handprints
Take a piece of paper and draw round each of your hands
On each hand write down an area of work that will impact upon your students’ employability
You can use fingers for action strands to help achieve the objective
Be as creative as you like, doodle or decorate your hand

9. Bibliography
Beetham, H., McGill, L. And Littlejohn, A. (2009) Thriving in the 21st century: learning literacies for the digital age (LliDA project) [WWW], Glasgow: Glasgow Caledonian University. Available from: [Accessed 27/6/11].
Browne, J. (2010). Securing a sustainable future for higher education [WWW] Available from [Accessed 12/10/11]
CBI/UUK (2009) Future Fit: preparing graduates for the world of work [WWW] Available from: [Accessed 12/10/11].
SCONUL (2011) The SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy Core Model For Higher Education [WWW] Available at: [Accessed 09/08/12]
Secker, J. and Coonan, E. (2011) A new curriculum for information literacy, executive summary [WWW] Available from: [Accessed 12/10/11]