WHELF's mission: collaboration and partnership
WHELF's mission is to promote library and information services co-operation, to encourage the exchange of ideas, to provide a forum for mutual support and to help facilitate new initiatives in library and information service provision.
WHELF actively promotes the work of higher education libraries in Wales and provides a focus for the development of new ideas and services.For the benefit of our libraries, institutions and users we aim to:
- Raise the profile of services and developments in Welsh HE library and information services in our own institutions, in Wales and beyond
- Influence policy makers and funders on matters of shared interest
- Implement collaborative services and developments for the mutual benefit of members institutions and their users
- Work with other organisations, sectors and domains in support of the development of a cooperative library network in Wales and the UK
- Provide mutual support and opportunities for the sharing of good practice through meetings, mailing lists etc
- Provide staff development and training opportunities for member institutions
- Collect, disseminate and evaluate statistics from member institutions
A copy of the WHELF Action Plan 2011 - 2013 is available to download here