WEST: Western Regional Storage Trust

The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is a distributed retrospective print journal repository program serving research libraries, college and university libraries, and library consortia in the Western Region of the United States. Under the WEST program, participating libraries consolidate and validate print journal backfiles at major library storage facilities and at selected campus locations. The resulting shared print archives ensure access to the scholarly print record and allow member institutions to optimize campus library space. This collaborative regional approach to managing library collections represents an important step, when joined with other initiatives, toward development of a highly trusted network-level shared print archive. To learn more about how WEST is working to maximize network-level analysis as well as regional and national collaboration, please see WEST Vision, Mission, and Guiding Principles and Value of WEST Infographic.

Current Work and Future Milestones

Questions about any of the current work or future milestones for WEST? WEST Members can attend monthly office hours on the second Thursday of every month, from 10am-11am PT, to come ask questions or discuss what they’re working on for WEST with the WEST Project Team and other WEST members. Our hope is that this can be another resource to support your work in WEST and that this will provide a place for us to come together and learn from each other as a community in a more informal setting. If you have any questions or topics you’d like to discuss please register here: https://UCOP.zoom.us/meeting/register/SZApOI8sRtCJJ62VfaILfQ