WEST Program Refresher – New Demo of On Demand Comparison & Analytics Reports!

On January 22nd  WEST hosted an hour-long webinar that provided a refresher on the WEST program and an info session on WEST Archiving. 

The first half of the webinar covered the history of WEST as well as the vision, mission, and principles, key features of the program, an overview of WEST members and their roles, how WEST is governed, and WEST’s external collaborations with key partners that extend our work at a national scale. 

The second half of the webinar provided a brief overview of the collection analysis and archiving processes, a look into the different roles members play in WEST, information on the WEST collection, and information about WEST’s in-house analysis support and decision making tool AGUA. As part of the program refresher, WEST project staff also gave a demo of the On Demand Comparison Report Tool and the new On Demand Analytics Report Tool, with two use cases and information on when you might use each tool.

• Use case #1: How to use the On Demand Comparison Report Tool to support a deselection project targeted at a specific shelf range.
• Use case #2: How to use the On Demand Analytics Report Tool to identify titles held by WEST members who are also members of a given resource sharing network. 

The recording of the demo and presentation slide deck are now available in the Webinars section of the Documents & Presentations page of the WEST website: https://cdlib.org/west/about-west/documents-presentations/#webinars

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us!