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WESLINK: The West Midlands HE libraries training group

The WMHEA Libraries Training Group aims to provide a platform for sharing experiences and organizing training sessions for higher education library staff. Recent events include collection development, information literacy, and workforce development.

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WESLINK: The West Midlands HE libraries training group

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  1. WESLINK:The West Midlands HE libraries training group Dr. John Rule Deputy Manager Harrison Learning Centre

  2. West Midlands Higher Education Association • West Midlands Higher Education Association helps its members to collaborate on policies and the delivery of projects that respond more directly and visibly to external demands. The traditional tasks of research and teaching have expanded into a ‘third mission' of social and economic engagement.  • The WMHEA encourages collaborations that contribute to the regional economy and wider community which link Universities, Industry, and Government in a so-called Triple Helix .

  3. Aston Birmingham Birmingham College of Food, Tourism & Creative Studies Coventry Harper Adams Keele Newman The Open University Staffordshire UCE Warwick Wolverhampton Worcester WMHEA Members

  4. WMHEA and Libraries • Information and Learning Group (ILG) a WMHEA subgroup for HEI Librarians • Has sponsored project such as MLA-WM funded ‘Developing Diversity’ project. • Currently in abeyance. • WESLINK set up as a training subgroup of ILG • Membership consists of training officers for WMHEA libraries.

  5. Aston Birmingham Birmingham College of Food, Tourism & Creative Studies Coventry Harper Adams Keele Newman College Staffordshire UCE Warwick Wolverhampton Worcester WESLINK MEMBERS

  6. Aims • Emulate EMALINK (the East Midlands Library Information Network). • Provide a forum for share experiences of training HE library staff • Organise 4-6 half day training sessions annually

  7. Recent training events • Collection Development (Keele) • Information Literacy (Aston) • Change in Libraries – for library assistants (Staffs) • Institutional repositories (Wolverhampton) • Considering Workforce Development – for staff development managers, joint with EMALINK.

  8. Repositories event • Afternoon of 10/5/07 in HLC Training Suite Wolverhampton (capacity 30, 18 present). • Organised by host contact – Irene Ordidge. • ‘The LaRGe Project’ (Mark Stiles, Staffordshire, on e- learning and e-support). • WIRE (Peter Kargbo, Wolverhampton, on a hosted institutional research repository). • Metadata (Stuart Hunt, Warwick, on metadata for repositories – METS, Dublin Core etc.). • Coffee break for networking. • Feedback forms collected and analysed.

  9. Points of contact Irene Ordidge, Assistant Director (Resources), University of Wolverhampton. Tel: 01902-322303 E-mail: i.ordidge@wlv.ac.uk Caroline Rock, Deputy Director, Coventry University. E-mail: c.rock@coventry.ac.uk

  10. Questions? Dr. John Rule Deputy Manager Harrison Learning Centre

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