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WELCOME!

The links below all refer to external websites and are aimed to help people continue to learn throughout their life, including accessing other libraries.

Lifelong Learning Links

Learndirect
Information on hundreds of Learndirect courses and details of local learning centres.

Education & training courses in West Yorkshire (WYTAP)
Course details from 900 local training providers.

uni4me
A website for anyone considering going to university, either full or part time.

Distance learning
Excellent set of links provided by the British Council, covering general information as well as charged and free courses on the web.

Lifelong learning

Information from the Department of Education and Skills to help you find out about carrying on learning throughout life.

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Chartership

CILIP qualifications pages
These contain all the information CILIP makes available on qualifications including the new chartership scheme, mentoring and certification. This includes the chartership handbook and lists of mentors.

Career Development group Chartership pages

This group is the special interest group within CILIP that offers a great deal of support for chartership candidates, including courses, reading lists and volunteer Registration Liason Officers (RLOs).


Mailing Lists

The above link allows you to search for mailing lists that may be relevant to your own interests or sector of work. Of particular interest for chartership candidates are -
LIS-CILIP-REG - the main chartership list

and WELCOME! Chartership - for our own WELCOME! chartership candidates.

Their are also mailing lists for certification candidates (LIS-CILIP-ACLIP) and for revalidation candidates (LIS-CILIP-REVAL).

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Other Libraries

INSPIRE and Findit!

A scheme allowing reference access to a wide range of libraries across the country. The WELCOME! library services are registered under the scheme, as are  many others across our region including a large number of libraries in Bradford and in South Yorkshire. To search for libraries use the Findit! site - www.findit.org.uk

Binspired

A collection of libraries in the Bradford area that offer reference access to their collections -

www.brad.ac.uk/library/binspired

Illustrated Directory of Libraries in Yorkshire and Humberside - www.yorkslibrarylist.org

Shows brief details and normally a photograph of all public library buildings in Yorkshire and the Humber regions. If you want to know what a public library looks like before you visit, or see that first library you used to visit when you were little - then this is the place to look!

SCONUL Access

Access to higher education libraries, including borrowing rights, across the UK for academic staff and researchers, and certain groups of students, plus reference access for all undergraduate and postgraduate students.

British Library
Search catalogues and links to worldwide information resources.

COPAC

An online catalogue that allows you to search the catalogues of a group of major research libraries plus the British Library and the National Library of Scotland.

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Page updated: Wednesday, September 10, 2008