Category: Shared Collections
Enhancing Print Journal Analysis for Shared Print Collections
CDL’s WEST group published a paper in Code{4}Lib Journal; abstract and links are below. ****** Abstract: The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), is a distributed shared print journal repository program serving research libraries, college and university libraries, and library consortia […]
Save the date + Registration Open: WEST Members Meeting Thursday, July 29, 12:30-2pm PT
WEST will hold its 2021 summer members’ meeting virtually this year on Thursday July 29, 2021, from 12:30-2pm PT. Please register in advance for this meeting. Information for joining the meeting will be shared automatically after registering. This meeting will […]
Yearly WEST Contacts Review
WEST has recently sent an email to all Primary Contacts asking them to review and, if necessary, update their contacts for various WEST and AGUA activities. This ensures that WEST is sending communications to the appropriate staff at each member […]
New Value of WEST and Member Communication Resources Available
As part of WEST’s continued efforts to support member communication about the goals and value of WEST, a new suite of documents are now available for members to use both internally and externally when discussing WEST and shared print initiatives. […]
AGUA Development Phase 5: Mid-Phase Report
Every other year WEST solicits unarchived holdings files from members and performs a collections analysis to identify what journals will be archived on behalf of the group over the next two years. During the ‘off years’ the WEST project team […]
Continue the Conversation: CDL, CRL, and HathiTrust Collaboration and Shared Print in the Collections Lifecycle
In May 2021, the CDL, CRL, and HathiTrust Shared Print Collaboration (CCH Collab) held two open discussions to gather feedback from the shared print and library communities about the needs and trajectories of embedding shared print in the collections lifecycle. […]
Save the Date: CDL, CRL, and HathiTrust Collaboration Webinars – Shared Print in the Lifecycle of Collections
The CDL, CRL, and HathiTrust Collaboration is developing a strategy of how to operationalize the Collaboration’s vision to embed shared print into the collection lifecycle. Over the past month, the CCH Collaboration has held practitioner focus groups (in the areas […]
Welcome Ellen Finnie, CDL’s new Director of Shared Collections
It is our great pleasure to announce that Ellen Finnie has been appointed as CDL’s new Director of Shared Collections, with responsibility for a significant strategic portfolio encompassing systemwide licensing, open access publisher agreements, and shared print initiatives. Ellen will […]
SCP Update – April 2021
For the detailed list of net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections, see the distribution statistics report for March 2021. SCP Overview Monthly Updates The following chart and table show the overall SCP cataloging […]
New Resource: Archives of Sexuality and Gender: International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture
All UC campuses now have access to the latest module in Gale’s Archives of Sexuality and Gender, International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture. This module examines populations and areas of the world previously underrepresented in prevailing scholarship on sexuality […]