Philippa Price writes: On the 16th December 2020, librarians from higher and further education institutions across Wales gathered for the latest WHELF teachmeet to share good practice. As you’d expect in 2020, the event took place online. The theme was …
WHELF Cataloguing Group – nominated by Alan Hughes, Cardiff University: The team has had a transformational and refreshing impact on the reinvention of cataloguing activities across Wales and beyond. The all-Wales partnership of 14 higher education and research institutions – …
Welsh Library Team of the Year 2020 – WHELF Group shortlisted Read more »
https://www.elsevier.com/books/technology-change-and-the-academic-library/atkinson/978-0-12-822807-4 Mark Hughes, Head of Library Services at Cardiff Metropolitan University, has written a chapter in a recently published book: Technology, Change and the Academic Library (Elsevier, 2020).Mark’s chapter is a case study about the WHELF LMS at Cardiff Met …
New book: Technology, Change and the Academic Library Read more »
The next WHELF Board meeting will now take place via Zoom on Thursday 23 July 2020.
Bookings are now open for a TeachMeet on the 6thFebruary, 10-2pm, in Committee Room 1 in the Glamorgan Building at Cardiff University. This has been organised by colleagues at Cardiff University as part of the activities of the WHELF Learning and Teaching …
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 …
WHELF Shared LMS: measuring the benefits of collaboration Read more »
The Academic Book of the Future Project has published the findings from its 2 year project. The report by Marilyn Deegan states that: “the academic book/monograph is still greatly valued in the academy for many reasons: the ability to produce …
The WHELF Representatives met on 18th-19th May, 2017 at Gregynog Hall. This was the first meeting with our new WHELF Chair, Emma Adamson (Director of Learning Services, USW). We welcomed Mairwen Owen (Head of Academic Services) from Bangor University Library …
This event was held at Aberystwyth University on 21st June 2017 and was organized by library trainee, George Smith. The event was well attended from across Wales and very well received. A blog post outlining the talks from the day …
