Key skills through collaboration: a Library and Information Services and Business, Management and Leisure partnership

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills are crucial to the development of graduate skills and employability. This paper will explore the research undertaken at Edge Hill College of Higher Education to integrate and contextualise ICT skills within an undergraduate marketing programme, with the research and curriculum implementation undertaken through collaboration between Library and Information Services (LIS) and the subject area of Business, Management and Leisure (BML).

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