WHELF held a highly successful Reading List event on 13 and 14 July, with speakers and delegates from all over Great Britain. Speakers demonstrated the various projects being carried out in HE libraries and shared many examples of good practice: …
Wednesday 16 March 2022 – 11:00 AM – 13:00 PM CILIP Cymru Wales and the Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF) invite you to a free e-content Question and Answer Panel session. Libraries across sectors in Wales are increasingly allocating …
Sue Hodges is Former Chair of WHELF and Former Director of Libraries and Archives at Bangor University. Sue contributed to the Academic Book of the Future project and her article has now been added to the project’s BOOC – an ever-developing …
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Following the ‘hyperlinks do not infringe copyright‘ case at the CJEU, and bearing in mind the US ruling on Google books last year, the CJEU has now been asked to contemplate the library’s use of scanned material. This one could …
Take a look at this useful post from Alyson Tyler to keep up-to-date with the current state of play with e-books and libraries: http://libalyson.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/recent-briefings-in-e-books-and-libraries/
The JISC Collections Summer Roadshows are taking place at Cardiff University and other venues over the summer. The events are aimed at librarians in the JISC Collections member institutions and are open to both HE and FE. The Cardiff roadshow …
Read Alyson Tyler’s comprehensive blog post to find out more about this event in Aberystwyth on Friday 25th November. Three out of the five talks on the programme were related to public libraries and e-books, but there was a good …
A UK-wide digital library for British higher education is in reach, says Ann Rossiter (SCONUL), if we can sort the licensing out. The UK’s status as a world leader in research depends on its institutions having the best possible access …
This new study examines trends and developments in the eBooks and eReaders market in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany, and discusses major challenges and key questions for the publishing industry worldwide. It also identifies market opportunities …
28 October 2010 – Kings Place, London Librarians and information professionals are faced with a large number of choices when migrating content online. CILIP’s Digital Information Conference titled ‘The challenge of choice’ provides delegates with clarity to interpret the implications for …
