Deselection Deep Dives Recap and Roundup
The WEST Executive Committee and Operations and Collections Council members requested that the Project Team explore ways to showcase members’ specific journal review stories, as a way to highlight how members are employing WEST in managing their collections, and hopefully inspire others to make the most of their membership in WEST. The goal was that by creating a platform to share this information widely, we could create points of reference that support individual libraries in presenting deselection projects as more than just recycling print collections; rather, as strategically reorganizing print collections within an ecosystem of trusted partner libraries.
To this end, the WEST Project Team collaborated with 4 WEST member institutions over the past eight months to create a series of Deselection Deep Dives, aimed at presenting the “What, So What, and Now What” of member’s deselection projects. Here’s a roundup of all of the Deselection Deep Dives we published this year for easy reference:
Deselection Deep Dive: Graduate Theological Union’s Library Alteration Project
Written with Beth Kumar (Director of Library Services, GTU)
Deselection Deep Dive: San Diego State’s Journal Review Story
Written with Wil Weston (Head of Collection Development & Resources Sharing Librarian, San Diego State University)
Deselection Deep Dive: University of Wyoming’s Experience with the WEST Internet Archive Pilot
Written with Jamie Markus (Associate Dean of Library Collections, University of Wyoming)
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)
It’s been a pleasure working with members of the WEST community on these and we are so grateful for your generosity in sharing your stories. I’m excited to see what we accomplish together next!