Year: 2014
Roles and Responsibilities of an Archive Holder
WEST is excited to invite more members to act as Archive Holders this cycle. WEST believes strongly in the importance of the distributed model for serials print archiving. WEST currently has 20 Archive Holders and will invite 40 more members […]
WEST member meeting this Sunday
The ALA Annual WEST Member Meeting is happening this Sunday, June 29, 2014 from 1-2:30 pm in LVCC-N120. Thank you to everyone who has already RSVP’d! If you haven’t RSVP’d yet, there is still time! You can RSVP to our poll […]
WEST Program Assessment: survey results released
In Spring 2014, WEST conducted a program assessment of its first three years. The assessment included a survey of all WEST members to collect valuable feedback about member views and priorities for the existing program. Many WEST members participated in the […]
Introducing Nancy Hoebelheinrich — DPLA Project Coordinator
Please join us in welcoming Nancy Hoebelheinrich to the CDL, as the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Project Coordinator. As part of a 9-month project (June 2014-February 2015) funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and DPLA, Nancy will […]
DMPTool Service Update: May 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Launch! We launched the new version of the DMPTool (at dmptool.org), first to institutional administrators on May 19, and then to the general public on May 29. In case you missed all […]
UC3 Dash Service Update: May 2014
UC3 Dash is a systemwide service we are developing in partnership with UC campus libraries. It will allow UC campuses to provide an easy-to-use solution for the effective curation of and access to campus research data. Dash is a centralized […]
WEST welcomes additional Archive Holders for cycle 4
In Archive Cycle 4, WEST will invite approximately 60 current members to participate as Archive Holders in the distributed archive; during previous cycles, approximately 20 members participated as Archive Holders. These institutions will be asked to archive low risk titles […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – IOP ebooks
Four campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the IOP ebooks. http://uclibs.org/PID/263234 (B, I, LA, SD; on the IOP Science platform) This license will provide perpetual access to 35 […]
Melvyl Changes – Hold Your Horses!
The long-awaited ability to see MARC records is coming June 26, 2014 to WorldCat Discovery—the merger of FirstSearch WorldCat and WorldCat Local (aka Melvyl) — in what is called staff mode. This new feature also introduces a lot of unknowns […]
HathiTrust – May 2014 Update
Highlights from HathiTrust’s May update: HathiTrust released a statement on the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Appeal Ruling. The HathiTrust Research Center released a new dataset, consisting of page-level features extracted from a quarter of a million volumes. Interest in ingesting […]