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Preserving Born-digital Government Information & Revisiting the Scopes Trial with Primary Sources – The latest UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter Now Posted!
The latest UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter has posted, it features these new articles: Preserving Born-Digital Government Information: What Librarians Can Do A query from a faculty member led CDL’s Digitization team on a quest to discover where government […]
WEST Program Refresher Webinar – January 22, 9-10am PT
WEST is hosting a one-hour program refresher for all current members on Thursday, January 22nd from 9am-10am PT. This webinar will include information on WEST’s history, vision and mission, key features, membership, governance, and collaborations. This session will also provide […]
WEST Office Hour – December 11th, from 10am-11am PT
WEST will be holding its monthly office hour on December 11th, from 10am-11am PT! The theme will be the upcoming AGUA pilot project with HathiTrust and California Digital Library, but as usual, all topics are welcome! If you have any […]
New Pilot Initiative to Enhance Shared Print Collaboration Across Libraries
HathiTrust, the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), and the California Digital Library (CDL) are excited to partner on a pilot to enable […]
JSTOR Forum Becomes JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
JSTOR Forum, the backend tool used by library staff to host, catalog, and publish archival collections (primarily image collections) to the JSTOR platform has upgraded to the new platform: JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. This resource is used by staff at 9 […]
SCP Update – November 2025
The SCP Update is a compilation of the collaborative efforts of CDL Acquisitions, the Shared Cataloging Program, the Electronic Resource Services Manager and other members of Shared Collections and the California Digital Library. Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic […]
Online Archive of California (OAC) update
In July 2025, CDL launched an upgraded version of the Online Archive of California (OAC), completely rebuilt with community-supported open source technologies. This upgrade is a major milestone in OAC’s decades-long commitment to public service, and provides a new footing […]
SEG Digital Library Moves to GeoScienceWorld
On December 1, 2025, the SEG Digital Library, from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, will migrate to the GeoScienceWorld (GSW) platform. Eight campuses have a current subscription through CDL: UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSD, UCSB, and UCSC. The subscription […]
JRNL Has Moved!
Earlier this month, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) announced that they have taken over as stewards of the Journal Retention and Needs Listing program (JRNL) from the University of Florida, Smathers Libraries, who had developed and maintained JRNL since […]
Celebrating Member Contributions: New Members Send Files as Part of Call for Unarchived Holdings
At the beginning of September, we invited all WEST Members to submit files of MARC bibliographic and holdings data for your print serials collections to seed our next collections analysis and make comparison data available to all WEST members. This […]