CDLINFO News
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 […]
University of California introduces new leader for Systemwide Library Facilities
Today, the UC Berkeley Library and the UC Libraries are introducing the inaugural leader for the University of California’s Systemwide Library Facilities, which collectively preserve and share millions of treasures held by the constellation of libraries across the UC system. […]
Deselection Deep Dive: University of California Berkeley’s Experience with the WEST Internet Archive Pilot
Written with Jo Anne Newyear Ramirez, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources, University of California Berkeley & Jesse Silva, Scholarly Resources Strategy and Federal Government Information Librarian, University of California Berkeley Setting the Stage In September of 2024, WEST launched […]