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 …
You are warmly invited to our How do Libraries Support Research?’ Teachmeet, a free event arranged by the Academic Engagement team at Hugh Owen Library, Aberystwyth University. 23 November 2021, 11:00 -14:45 We have an eye-catching programme of speakers to share with you: …
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 …
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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 …
The WHELF Learning and Teaching Group is organising a second Teachmeet on the theme of inclusive learning and teaching, which we hope to run in September. This Teachmeet will focus on how we can foster and enable equality and diversity …
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 …
