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About Inspire    Find it!    News    The British Library    England - The Regions    Northern Ireland    Ireland    Scotland    Wales      -  Participating Libraries    Useful links    Contact us	Library co-operation in Wales Regional schemes In Wales there is an established and growing collection of regional cross-sectoral library groupings. Linc y Gogledd (North Wales) took the lead and other regions have followed, encouraged by the establishment of CyMAL as channel for National Assembly funding for libraries (and archives / museums). There is no Wales-wide "scheme". CyMAL Funding from CyMAL is currently channelled through the "@ your library" programme (though libraries have also tapped into some of their other funding streams, eg "Inspiring Learning for All"). The "@ your library" programme has four strands: national resource discovery online public library marketing to end-users staff training "@ your library" has provided funds of between £10,000 and £20,000 to most of the existing schemes and to help to start some new ones. CyMAL is also funding a range of national e-developments, including a collaborative procurement of e-resources for public libraries, which includes exploring an authentication model based on the public library card number. A "virtual library for Wales" website is also under discussion, which would bring together developments such as Ask Cymru (like Ask a Librarian but in Wales) and Wales on the Web (see http://www.walesontheweb.org/). WHELF (The Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum) Regional Groupings and access schemes Co-operative resource discovery tools   This page was last updated on 31 January 2006
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