Dr Mike Hopkins retires
Mike (centre) pictured with Andrew Prescott and Stuart Lewis at the launch of the Welsh Repository Network. Early in 1995 the University of Wales Aberystwyth decided to adopt a new approach to the management and delivery …
Redesigned Trevithick Library opens
The redesigned Trevithick Library at Cardiff University has been declared officially open by Honorary Fellow Carol Vorderman. At a special launch event held in the Library on 25 March 2009, speakers included Professor Malcolm Jones, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Estates, and Janet …
UC&R Wales Event – Creating new learning spaces
UC&R Wales Event — Creating New Learning Spaces — Cardiff University Trevithick Library 29th April 2009 Ruth Thornton (the Trevithick Librarian) and Amanda Heal (Design Research Unit Wales, Cardiff School of Architecture) will be presenting the Trevithick Library – from Vision …
LILAC 2009 in Cardiff
Find out more about the papers being delivered in Cardiff next week: http://www.lilacconference.com/dw/2009/Conference_programme.htm Choose Pre-Conference workshops and Parallel Sessions to see summaries of the papers and further links. Look out for the presentations after the conference.
Awards for Excellence
Congratulations to Cathie Jackson, Senior Consultant – Information Literacy in Information Services at Cardiff University, who has been awarded a prize for Excellence in Teaching by the HEA Subject Centre for Information and Computer Science. This is Cathie’s second award – …
Learner Technologies and Open Educational Resources: the future mixed economy of education
Date: Friday 3 Apr 2009, 9.30am -3.30pm Venue: Mercure Holland House Hotel and Spa Cardiff FREE event RSC Wales is pleased to announce that bookings are now open for a JISC project dissemination conference, focussing on the growing use of …
HE shared digital library
Scotland’s university researchers are to benefit from an online shared initiative that makes key journals more widely available, thanks to an agreement negotiated by JISC Collections and led by the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL). The Scottish …
CoFHE Wales Conference
CoFHE Wales is organising a one day conference on the 24th April at Coleg Glan Hafren Cardiff. Topics include the FE Toolkit for Wales, Devolved LRCs and Library 2.0 in academic libraries. For more information contact Ellen Harris at: e.harris@trinity-cm.ac.uk
New Director at Bangor
David Learmont joined Bangor University in January this year as the Director of Library and Information Services. His background is in IT and he has most recently been involved in an organisational change programme at University of the Arts London, …
Launch of the Welsh Repository Network
With the advent of the Welsh Repository Network, Wales becomes the first country in the UK where all higher education institutions have established online repositories. The formal launch took place at the National Library of Wales on 19 February as …
