Category: Shared Collections
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 […]
Deselection Deep Dive: YOUR Journal Review Story
Last summer, WEST Executive Committee and Operations and Collections Council members gathered in person and online for a hybrid meeting to continue Future of WEST planning following the 2023 Future of WEST Report. One of the outcomes of this meeting […]
In memoriam ~ Lisa Mackinder
On March 19, 2025, CDL lost a beloved colleague and dear friend when Lisa Mackinder died after an extended illness. Lisa was the Assistant Director for Systemwide Licensing in the Shared Collections Program, a position she assumed in 2022 after […]
Deselection Deep Dive: Graduate Theological Union’s Library Alteration Project
Written with Beth Kumar (Director of Library Services, GTU) Setting the Stage What are the specifics of your project? Why are you deselecting / reviewing your journal holdings? In 2021 we began a library alteration project that required the GTU […]