This section:

• Outlines the shared resources of West Midlands Healthcare Libraries Network (WMHLN).
• Provides resources which support the daily operations of library and information service.

WMHLN COMMUNICATION

1. West Midlands Information for Health (WiSH)
   
   • WiSH provides a virtual spaces and collaborative platform for the network of healthcare library and information services in the West Midlands.
   • ALL WMHLN library staff are eligible to become authors and create content for WiSH.
   • Contact the following WiSH content co-ordinators to obtain access accounts:

     Birmingham & The Black Country	Lesley Allen
     Coventry & Warwickshire	Helga Perry
     Herefordshire & Worcestershire	Michael Parry (Herefordshire) Sarah Parnell / Lucy Wright (Worcestershire)
     Shropshire & Staffordshrie	Vicki McDonagh / Natalie Ottewill

     
     
   • For further information, visit WMLISDU > IM&T section > WiSH section.
2. Lis-wmnet
   
   • Lis-wmnet is the email discussion list for all health library staff across the NHS, HE and FE sections in the West Midlands.
   • Visit lis-wmnet on JISCmail to join or leave lis-wmnet, and to search or browse the archives.
3. Lis-wmpara
   • Lis-wmpara is the email discussion list for para-professionals in health libraries in the West Midlands.
   • Visit lis-wmpara on JISCmail to join or leave lis-wmpara, and to search or browse the archives.
   • Enquiries: Emma Gibbs, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
4. WMHLN Direcotry of Libraries
   
   • WMHLN Catalogue includes WMHLN Directory of Libraries, giving both brief and detail displays of individual entries and a quick listing of all entries.
5. Health Library & Information Service Directory (HLISD)
   
   • HLISD covers health library and information services, whether they are NHS, Further or Higher Education, Government, Professional Bodies, Patient Information or Voluntary Organisations, in the West Midlands, as well as in other parts of NHS England.
   • All services should have already been assigned the access details as the Local Editors of their own entries.  See further information.
   • Local Editors can now approve their own entries.   Once an entry has been modified, Local Editors should check the Approval Queue for the modified entry and approve it.
6. West Midlands Representatives at National Level

SHALL	Clare Edwards
SHALL Service Development	Bertha Low
SHALL Staff Deveplopment	Alison Pope (until March 2012) Lesely Allen (w.e.f. April 2012)
SHALL Consumer Health Information	Sarah Greening
SHALL Content & Collection Development Group	Bertha Low
SHALL subgroup - Expert & Test Review Group	Anita Phul Nicola Ager
SHALL subgroup - National ATHENS Administrator Group	Bertha Low
SHALL IM&T Group	Scott Rosenberg David Law (deputy)

WMHLN INTERLIBRARY DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICE

1. WMHLN Catalogue
   
   • WMHLN Catalogue serves as the region-wide union catalogue of journal holdings, facilitating resource sharing and supporting interlibrary document delivery service (ILL) across WMHLN.
   • For further information, visit WMLISDU > IM&T > WMHLN Catalogue section.
   • All health library and information services participating in ILL are required to indicate their ILL availability on WMHLN Catalogue.