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The WHELF Research group have arranged a session at Aberystwyth University looking at the use of Wikipedia/media/data in research activities: Discover how the National Library is utilising Wikipedia and its sister projects to engage with the public, to share digital …
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Jenny McNally will be starting as the WHELF LMS Business Manager on 27th June. Jenny has worked in academic libraries for over 15 years in roles including Cataloguing, Collections Management and E-resource Management. She also worked on a project at Mimas …
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The WHELF Annual Report for the academic year 2017-18 is now available. The report highlights the collective work of WHELF along with news and developments from the WHELF institutions. The report can be downloaded in English or Welsh from the …
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WHELF is pleased to announce the publication of “Evaluating the benefits of the WHELF consortial approach to a library management system”. Funded by Jisc, Cambridge Econometrics was commissioned by the Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF) to carry out an …
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The Sconul Collaboration Strategy Group have developed a toolkit for library collaboration “to aid the selection and development of efficient and effective shared services within and beyond the HE library sector”. The toolkit has been authored by Richard Parsons, University …
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New Wales-wide library system will foster greater collaboration between universities A new library management system which will promote collaboration between cross-sector libraries in Wales will be celebrated at an event in the National Assembly today (Thursday 22 September 2016). The …
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Bangor University went live with Ex-Libris Alma and Primo on 25 August, completing the implementation cycle for all of the 11 Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF) Shared Library Management System (LMS) institutions. The first to go live was Swansea …
Fantastic news: Implementation completed for the WHELF Shared LMS! Read More »
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Congratulations to Cardiff University Library, the NHS Wales Libraries and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD), who have now all gone live with the WHELF Shared LMS. These libraries are part of cohort 3, and make up …
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With thanks to John Dalling (Senior Learning Resources Adviser, UWTSD) for the first of our blog posts from cohort 2. About UWTSD The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) was formed in 2010 following the merger …
From multiple legacy systems to a single LMS at UWTSD Read More »
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With thanks to Sian Thomas (Systems Manager, NLW) and Glen Robson (Head of Systems, NLW) for this article: Tell us about the National Library of Wales The National Library of Wales (NLW) was established in 1907 to “collect, preserve and …
