Our universities are fully committed to the approach being taken by the UK’s Elsevier Negotiation Team and support the recommendation to reject the 6th proposal from Elsevier on the basis it does not yet meet the two core objectives of …
WHELF (Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum) Statement: Elsevier Negotiations Read more »
WHELF is putting out a call to join our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Group. The WHELF EDI Group has achieved notable successes since it was established in 2020 – including a high profile conference on Excluded Voices. The Group has …
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The WHELF Board returned to the beautiful setting of Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, for their first in person meeting since February 2020. All member institutions were represented and the guests were Emma Adamson, former WHELF Chair, Mairwen Owen, formerly of Bangor …
The Estyn Allan training and development programme has been selected as first place in the CILIP Cymru Wales Welsh Library Team of the Year Award. Joint second place was awarded to Coleg Sir Gâr Library Service and the Grŵp Llandrillo …
The next WHELF Board meeting will be held at the beautiful venue of Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden in North Wales. It will be the first time colleagues have met face to face since February 2020, and the first opportunity to meet …
Last week CILIP Cymru Wales met with information professional leaders from across Wales to respond to Welsh Government’s consultation on its LGBTQ+ action plan. WHELF is pleased to have been included in this and hopes its members will share their views …
Welsh Government Consultation on its LGBTQ+ Action Plan Read more »
WHELF is currently going through a period of change, with colleagues leaving WHELF institutions: Mairwen Owen retired from Bangor University in July. Mairwen was most recently Academic Support Manager in Bangor University library but also worked as Law Librarian for …
This Teachmeet is an opportunity to showcase the range of ways in which libraries support research and to learn from one another’s experiences. We welcome contributions from both library staff and the research community, including students. The Teachmeet will take …
WHELF Annual Colloquium 2021 There and back again: using lessons learned from the pandemic to shape the library services of the future. The WHELF Colloquium was again online this year. Our programme explored how we have adapted services and innovated …
Every year, we publish a report which includes examples of our collaborative activities. WHELF has had another highly successful year in its efforts to create more value than the ‘sum of the parts’. Under its umbrella, libraries have succeeded in …
