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Vocational higher education and skills are recognised as key factors in shaping an economy to adapt to fast-emerging business models that disrupt workplace behaviours. Employers require graduates to be “work-ready”, emphasising the need to demonstrate resilience, as a critical desired behaviour (CBI, 2019). This case study shares the integrated curriculum design, co-creation and operationalisation of “Graduate Transitions” workshops that were piloted in a compulsory final-year module across a number of programmes in a higher education institutions’ business faculty to enhance graduates “work readiness”.

The collaboration and leadership thinking of industry professionals, academics and career consultants designed and co-created a workshop that enhances transitioning student resilience and prepares them for their future of work. Action research gathered data using a mixed-methods approach to evaluate student and stakeholder feedback.

Evidence indicates that the workshops actively embed practical coping strategies for resilience and mindful leaders in transitioning graduates. It assures employers that employability and professional practice competencies are experienced by transitioning graduates entering the future workplace.

Limitations to this research are clearly in the methodology and concentrating on the co-creation of an innovative curriculum design project instead of the tools to accurately evaluate the impact in a systematic manner. There was also limited time and resource to design a more sophisticated platform to collect data and analyse it with the imperative academic rigour required. Emphasis on piloting and operationalisation of the intervention, due to time and resource restrictions, also challenged the methodological design.

The positive feedback from these workshops facilitated integration into the curriculum at an institution-wide level. This paper shares with the academic community of practice, the pedagogy and active learning design that could be customised within their own institution as an intervention to positively influence the new metrics underpinning graduate outcomes.

This pioneering curriculum design ensures that employability and professional practice competencies are experienced by graduates transitioning to the workplace.

Microcomputer hobbyists and user groups across the nation have set up electronic bulletin boards—systems that thousands of people use to exchange information and public domain programs. The Madison (WI) IBM PC user group has set up a large, 24‐hour board that you can call to get free programs, answers to your questions, and information about the user group. In Milwaukee, there's a 24‐hour board that says it's especially for business applications.

Since I am also the system operator (sysop) of the Biomedical Library's WELLSPRING RBBS here at U.C. Irvine, I was glad to see Cathy Moore's article “Low‐Cost, High Quality Software” in the April 1986 issue of OCLC Micro. Both public‐domain and user‐supported software (i.e., “shareware”) have not always received the recognition they deserve.

Libraries circulating software should take a few extra steps to protect the software (and users) from “pranksters.” For example, a patron might place a trojan horse program [see p. 3] on the disk that would destroy a subsequent user's data. Such a subverted [perverted?] program can be timed to “go off” only after a certain date or under certain conditions, making it difficult or impossible to determine who created the program. Avoid this by keeping archive copies of each disk and recopying the circulating disk every time it's returned, replacing any potentially altered programs with the original(s). Also check the disk's directory and delete any extra files added by patrons. [Reformatting and recopying would be safer since that would obliterate any subdirectories you might forget to look in.]

The April 1987 OCLC Micro (p. 13) describes one way you can set up a menu system to make it easier to use a hard disk. Here's a variation that uses simple commands as well as a menu, leaving people free to use either. The instructions assume you're familiar with the MD (MKDIR) and CD (CHDIR) commands.

A multitasking program lets you do two things at once on your micro, for example, print spine labels while you edit the gift book list. At WILS, we use Double DOS, a S50 multitasking program, on our bulletin board computer. Double DOS divides the memory of the computer in two, letting us run one program in each section. We see only one section at a time; a simple combination of keys switches from one to the other. While the bulletin board program answers calls in the background, we use the other section of memory for word processing and printing requests. We have a command in our AUTOEXEC.BAT file that automatically starts Double DOS when we turn on the computer; a configuration file tells the program how to divide the memory. (You control how the memory is divided and can give one section priority, so that the program loaded there will run faster.) We give priority to the section that runs the bulletin board so online sessions won't slow down too much when we're using the free section of memory.

Some dial‐access users have encountered the message “function disabled” which sounds alarming. This is a CompuServe message that occurs when the system receives a stray 〈DISP RECRD SEND〉 with nothing (or without anything the system recognized) preceding it. A lone 〈DISP RECRD SEND〉 was supposed to allow OCLC staff to go into a master mode for system maintenance. This master mode has not been installed and therefore is “disabled.”

Have you ever wanted to print out a copy of the current screen from within a BASIC program? Being able to do so might be preferable to coding a long, special‐purpose series of LPRINT statements. After all, the screen is (presumably) already formatted—and the user is familiar with the format from using the program! It's a great idea, with one catch—there is no “Print Screen” command in BASIC. Well, here's a nifty 4‐line subroutine you can include in your BASIC program to allow you to print out a screen any time you want.

PC‐File (a readily available shareware program) gives you two ways to save yourself typing and time:

New ILL Request Formatting Program Available. Version 1 of PC‐Loan, an ILL request input program, is available from the WILS office.