Category: Shared Collections
WEST Internet Archive Pilot – Report and Recommendations Now Available!
Last Fall (2024), WEST launched a pilot with the Internet Archive and six WEST member libraries to amplify and support library collaborative strategies for print collection management and preservation. Specifically, the pilot involved coordinating the donation of duplicate copies of […]
Reminder & Agenda: WEST Summer 2025 Member Meeting – Why WEST Now? Protecting our foundations in times of turmoil and uncertainty
WEST is holding its summer 2025 member meeting virtually on Thursday July 24 from 10-11:30am PT / 11am-12:30pm MT / 12-1:30pm CT / 1-2:30pm ET. Please register in advance. The meeting will be recorded. The meeting will include a panel […]
ASU Gap Filling Pilot – Final Report and Recommendations Now Available!
In Fall of 2022, Arizona State University (ASU) began work on a gap filling pilot project with WEST. This pilot project was intended to both increase the completeness of select medium and high risk level (formerly referred to as Silver […]
SCP Update – June 2025
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in May 2025 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書): 233 JSTOR Books: 457 Oxford Scholarship Online Complete: 144 Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete: 213 Wiley Online Library Frontlist All English Titles 2025: 56 Link to […]
Mapping Member Strategic Priorities
Background In 2024 the WEST Executive Committee & the Operations and Collections Council (OCC) articulated a need for WEST to create new and expanded communication resources that enable member libraries to advance their shared print and collective collection goals at […]
Celebrating WEST Member Contributions to Community Documentation – Extracting Holdings Records from Alma
One of WEST’s biggest strengths is our member community and the work we do wouldn’t be possible without the many contributions of our WEST members. As the WEST Cycle 14 disclosure period comes to a close, WEST would like to […]
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) Setting the Stage What are the specifics of your project? Why are you deselecting / reviewing your journal holdings? In 2012, San Diego State […]
The Iowa State Cyclones Answer the Call (for Holdings) – An example of contributing state property to the WEST archived collection
Over the course of the Gap Filling Pilot ASU sent out numerous calls for holdings to WEST Member institutions, and even though the data gathering period has ended, the gap filling work continues, both for ASU and for the libraries […]
SCP Update – May 2025
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in April 2025 JSTOR Books: 414 Oxford Scholarship Online Complete: 607 US Government Documents: 604 Wiley Online Library Frontlist All English Titles 2025: 62 Collection level bibliographic records: 1 Link to the […]
New Resource: BungeiShunju Archives Phase 2
The UCs now own BungeiShunju Archives Phase 2 (Bungei Shunjū Archives), with access for all UC campuses. This latest purchase builds off of our UC-wide access to Phase 1, purchased in 2020 for all campuses as part of our tier […]