Category: Shared Collections
2023 WEST Executive Committee Election Results and Operations and Collections Council (OCC) Appointments
WEST Executive Committee Election Results WEST carried out elections for the Executive Committee between November 21, 2022 and December 9, 2022. WEST surpassed the quorum of 51% and achieved a 66% response rate in favor of the 2023 Executive Committee […]
SCP Update – November 2022
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in October 2022 ACM Digital Library Complete: 135 ASM handbooks online (Local-L): 45 (New) CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 319 Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2022 All Books: 111 (GOBI) China and the […]
Chadwyck-Healey databases transition to ProQuest
According to Proquest’s informational webpage, several databases will be moving from their legacy Chadwyck-Healey interface to the ProQuest platform, throughout 2022. As a result, these databases will be more discoverable as users will be able to cross-search content along with […]
Reveal Digital Open Access collections available
In 2019, CDL funds were used in systemwide support of Reveal Digital’s Diversity & Dissent Fund to support the digitization and production of open access collections related to the theme of diversity and dissent in 20th century America. With Reveal […]
SCP Update – October 2022
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in September 2022 ACM Digital Library Complete: 31 AIP Books Collection 2: 19 (New) CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 175 Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949): 3387 Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2022 All […]
Upcoming Shared Print Events and Webinars
WEST’s national partners are hosting a number of events related to shared print and collaboration in the coming months: Partnership for Shared Book Collections The Partnership for Shared Book Collections recently announced new Best Practices Assessment Tools. The Best Practices […]
New Resource Supporting Voluntary Validation of WEST Bronze Archives
WEST is pleased to announce new Guidelines for Voluntary Validation of WEST Bronze Archives! These guidelines are the product of interviews with several WEST member institutions to research their workflows transferring materials into storage (including physical handling and record management) […]
WEST Begins AGUA Development Phase 6
October marks the beginning of the sixth AGUA Development phase (Phase 6)! Every other year, when not conducting the biennial collections analysis, WEST undertakes systems development on AGUA, the WEST collection analysis and decision support tool. Planning began in early […]
Welcome Jason Chodur!
Please join me in welcoming Jason Chodur to the California Digital Library. Jason Chodur joins the Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) of the Shared Collection as a Metadata and Extraction, Transformation & Loading Specialist, beginning October 3, 2022. In his new […]
JRNL Pilot Project – Expanding Access to Facilitate Gap Filling
One of the many tools available to WEST members is the Journal Retention and Needs Listing tool (JRNL), a shared print retention database and gap filling marketplace developed and maintained by the University of Florida. This tool allows WEST Archivers […]