The WHELF (Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum) Annual Report for 2010 - 2011 is now available: http://whelf.wordpress.com/annual-reports/.
This year's report, covering the period August 2010 to July 2011, gives more evidence of how the happy cooperation between Welsh academic libraries can achieve impressive results for students, staff and others, at a time of unprecedented uncertainty and financial strain.
Sharing information resources has always been one of WHELF's ambitions, but the conclusion of a deal with Oxford University Press on electronic periodicals is a big step forward for researchers in Wales, and opens the way to similar deals with other major publishers in future. Similarly, helping students to discriminate in their use of information has long been a concern of librarians, but the new Welsh Information Literacy Project, admired throughout the UK and beyond, has done pioneering work on integrating such skills in teaching and learning. A third example is digitisation, where again it is possible to achieve far more collaboratively on an all-Wales scale than would be conceivable through individual, competing activity.
[Andrew Green, Chair of WHELF]
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