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Informal and safe opportunities to connect, chat, ask questions etc. I don't know how this would work but would be nice to have some sort of online drop-in spaces.

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Network for library assistants to connect across institutions - opportunity for career development and sharing experiences. Could be an online forum?

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Brokering connections between institutions to establish mentoring or coaching relationships - to facilitate professional learning, skills and career development.

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Widening of borrowing schemes

Access to shared databases?

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Swansea set up a fantastic Community of Practice to discuss LibGuides across WHELF, meeting once a month to share knowledge & concerns, and to support each other. It would be lovely to see more of these spring up to support HE and FE across Wales.

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Universities are finding it hard to fund training at the moment. Putting on shared training might help.

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It gives a sense of community in Wales libraries.

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Building a shared, collaborative OA Press, enabling smaller institutions to publish with equal access, and sharing the workload.

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With the fantastic take-up of WHELF+, and the increasing use of RapidILL and Rapido, it'd be useful to have a shared collection policy to increase access to materials across the country, and to avoid multiple purchases across institutions, where a single physical copy, or a single database subscription, could support the whole of the network.

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We generate so much good work on an institution and WHELF level, but it's not easy to find or draw from. Can we do more with the WHELF website to make this practice discoverable, preferably thematically?

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Understand that an online conference has many advantages i.e. cost, accessibility, time etc but I think more value does lie in a face to face experience - those invaluable human interactions, conversations, networking etc.

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Understand that an online conference has many advantages i.e. cost, accessibility, time etc but I think more value does lie in a face to face experience - those invaluable human interactions, conversations, networking etc.

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Along the lines of shared staff training and library resources, as well as the positive impact of topical CoPs, there are a number of shared challenges right now. One of the posts has mentioned OA, and I agree 100%. It would be good to gather these topics (like AI) that we're facing and share our policies, procedures, teaching materials and more so that we're not all reinventing the wheel.

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Whatever ends up replacing Yammer, we need to make sure that staff, at every institution, and across all grades, need to know it's a shared space where we can talk to each other and share our experiences - WHELF Yammer is incredibly useful, but possibly not used as much as it could be.

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Is there a way to advise on the curriculum for current MLIS programmes (for example, the one at Aberystwyth)?

Also, being included in discussion for new entry routes: apprenticeships, FE library qualifications, etc.