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Reminder and Full Agenda: WEST Members Meeting Tuesday July 19, 1:00-2:30pm PT

July 5, 2022 Author: Anna StrikerCategories:

WEST is holding its 2022 summer members’ meeting virtually this year on Tuesday, July 19, from 1:00-2:30pm PT. Join us for a meeting focused on embedding shared print philosophically and operationally in library services. Please register in advance for this meeting. Information for joining the meeting will be shared automatically after registering.  

Meeting Theme – Embedding Collaboration; Embedding Shared Print

Meeting Agenda 

    • Welcome and Opening Remarks 

Melissa Desantis, WEST Executive chair and Library Director of the Strauss Health Sciences Library of University of Colorado, Denver

    • Keynote Presentation – Towards a Moral Theory of the Collective Collection: Lessons from Derek Parfit

Greg Eow, President, Center for Research Libraries

 

We will be gathering questions in this public discussion document during the meeting. 

Attendees are also welcome to contribute questions to the discussion document ahead of the meeting. 

    • Panel Discussion – Embedding Shared Print into Local Collection Management: Data-informed Deselection

A panel of experts in WEST who are preparing to or have recently leveraged the WEST collections in local collection management projects to maximize space and resources. The discussion will cover project planning, regular activity, one-time projects, how to leverage WEST in strategic communication about deselection, and opportunities for the future. 

      • Sion Romaine – Director, Acquisitions & Rapid Cataloging Services, University of Washington
      • Wil Weston – Head of Collections Management, San Diego State University
      • Samantha Silver – Electronic Resources Librarian, Mount Saint Mary’s University
      • Anna Striker (moderator) – Operations and Collections Analyst, WEST

 

We will be gathering questions in this public discussion document during the meeting. 

Attendees are also welcome to contribute questions to the discussion document ahead of the meeting.

    • Closing remarks and recognition of WEST governance and working group members

      • Alison Wohlers, Program Manager, WEST

 

Register in advance for this meeting: https://ucop.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAscu6sqT4jHdffXhTS85WYXphi0P6lhIUs  

The WEST virtual members’ meeting is open to all, including WEST members and those interested in learning more about the WEST program or the meeting topic. Please note that this meeting will be recorded. Live captioning will be available via Zoom’s automated transcription feature; if other accommodations are necessary, please contact Anna Striker at anna.striker@ucop.edu.

 

Keynote Speaker Bio

Greg Eow has served as President of the Center for Research Libraries since 2019, a role in which he is responsible for setting strategic directions and overall CRL programming and services in collaboration with the CRL Board of Directors, CRL staff, CRL member libraries, and CRL strategic partners. Before joining the CRL, Eow served as the Associate Director for Collections at the MIT Libraries, where he led an administrative portfolio that included scholarly communications and collections, digital preservation, acquisitions and metadata creation, and the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Eow has held previous appointments at the Harvard Library and the Yale University Library. He currently serves on the Management Board of the MIT Press, the Board of Directors of the Chicago Collections Consortium, and serves as Vice Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). In addition to an MLIS, Eow holds a PhD in history and is a lifetime member of the American Historical Association.

 

About Center for Research Libraries (CRL) 

CRL is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. Founded in 1949, CRL supports original research and inspired teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars a wealth of rare and uncommon primary source materials from all world regions.

CRL’s deep and diverse collections are shaped by specialists and experts at the major U.S. and Canadian research universities, who work together to identify and preserve unique and uncommon documentation and evidence, to ensure its long-term integrity and accessibility to researchers worldwide.

CRL is based in Chicago, Illinois, and is governed by a Board of Directors drawn from the library, research and higher education communities.

 

About the 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. WEST members collaborate to collectively preserve and provide continued access to print collections in the long-term. This work is rooted in data-driven decision-making and sustainable practices that leverage group action to augment local capacity for strategic collection management and development. 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.