Library Information Management Employability Skills - LIMES
The Library and Information Management Employability Skills (LIMES) project was funded by HEFCE for £150,000 over two years. The project has created teaching materials for the Library and Information Management (LIM) subject discipline that address gaps in curricula in the UK . LIMES has successfully created a series of case study-based and online material to enhance the employability skills of LIM graduates, addressing concerns from employers, as identified in a project survey of relevant employment agencies and a national questionnaire to all LIM academics across the UK.
Impacts include: time saved in materials creation across the discipline; sharing of materials; enhanced student experience of employer related case studies; additional funded projects building on the ethos of co-operation not competition in improving teaching nationally.
Sustainability is provided via new LIM Communities of Practice (CoPs) that have emerged from the work of LIMES. The CoPs include employers, practitioners and LIM academics. The Higher Education Academy for Information and Computer Sciences (HEA-ICS) will sustain access to the materials now the project is completed.
Loughborough University was the lead LIM department and project partners were Liverpool John Moores University and University of West of England , Bristol . Project Director was Dr Derek Stephens and the full time Project Manager was Yvonne Hamblin who is now working for Loughborough University Careers Centre on a new three year initiative to enhance employability across all disciplines by working with employers and academic staff to develop work experience opportunities and to raise student awareness of their employability skills.
