I recently attended the CILIP Cymru/Wales conference held in Llandudno 11th-12th May 2017. Thank you to MALD (Welsh Government, Museum, Archives & Libraries Division) for providing me with a sponsored place for the Thursday, this is my report from some …
Category: workforce development
Event: Librarians Supporting the Research Lifecycle
Rachael Whitfield
Posted in RDM, research, Research group blog, research support, workforce development
WHELF Research Group event Please join us to hear invited research staff describe their research lifecycle, pressure points, and support they find useful from the library service. We also have guest speaker Dr Penny Dowdney who will share her expertise …
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Call for papers – Gregynog Colloquium 2017
Rachael Whitfield
Posted in collaboration, digital literacy, events, information literacy, open access, student experience, Whelf shared LMS, workforce development
Every year WHELF and HEWIT organise a residential colloquium at Gregynog Hall, the University of Wales’ conference centre. This is an annual opportunity for Library and IT staff and practitioners at all levels to collaborate and share best practice. This year’s …
Tagged with: Gregynog Colloquium
LILAC conference 10-12th April 2017
Rachael Whitfield
Posted in digital literacy, events, information literacy, learning & teaching, workforce development
This year LILAC (Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference) will be taking place from the 10-12th April 2017 at Swansea University’s Bay Campus. This conference is “aimed at librarians and information professionals who teach information literacy skills, are interested in digital …
Tagged with: LILAC 2017
Event report: WHELF Employability LibTeachMeets
Rachael Whitfield
Posted in digital literacy, employability, events, information literacy, learning & teaching, WHELF, workforce development
Many thanks to Helen Bader (Assistant Librarian (Drama), Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama) for writing this report on her experience of attending the recent Employability LibTeachMeet at Swansea University: In November 2016 the WHELF Learning and Teaching Group …
WHELF Annual Report
Rachael Whitfield
Posted in archives & special collections, collaboration, employability, events, JISC, learning & teaching, learning spaces, news, research support, student experience, Universities Wales, value, Welsh universities, WHELF, Whelf shared LMS, workforce development
The WHELF Annual Report for the academic year 2015-16 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 …
Employability LibTeachMeets Nov 2016
Rachael Whitfield
Posted in employability, events, learning & teaching, student experience, workforce development
The WHELF Learning & Teaching sub-group will be holding two Library TeachMeets during November 2016 the theme of employability. The first event will be held on the 9th November at Bangor University and the second event will be held at …
Report from the RDM training day
With thanks to Beth Hall, Academic Support Librarian at Bangor University for this blog post: The WHELF research group organised a training session on Research Data Management at Cardiff University on the 6th September. Attendees represented a range of the …
Supporting research: presentation from the Gregynog Colloquium
This presentation was delivered by Bronwen Blatchford (Cardiff Metropolitan University / RWCMD), Susan Glen (Swansea University) and Beth Hall (Bangor University) at the 2016 WHELF/HEWIT Colloquium. It discusses the feedback from the 3 regional events for librarians supporting research organized …
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WHELF Research Data Management Training Day
Rachael Whitfield
Posted in RDM, research, Research group blog, research support, workforce development
Largely driven by funder policy, libraries around the world have begun to explore how to support research data management. This means applying our skills to a new context. We need to support researchers to plan data management. We also need …
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