Category: Shared Collections
February 2025 Round Up of New Japanese Resources
At the J-DAC platform: Hōmushō Kyuzō Tōkyō Saibun, Sensō Saiban Kankei Shiryō 法務省旧蔵東京裁判・戦争裁判関係資料 (Records of War Crime Tribunals: Mainly Related to Tokyo Trials, from the Former Archives of the Ministry of Justice) This collection includes: “Over 360 volumes of […]
American Society for Microbiology journals
The University of California system has a new multiyear (2025-2027) systemwide agreement with The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) for their All-Inclusive Journals Package. Access to this package is included for all 10 UC campuses, including LBL. The UC campuses […]
Celebrating Our Members: WEST Member Badges
Here in WEST, we’re incredibly proud and grateful for the work our members have done and continue to do to collaboratively develop, manage, and coordinate the identification, retention, and registration of a shared, distributed collection of print content across libraries. […]
WEST Program Refresher – Slides and Demo Recording Now Available!
On February 7th 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, […]
Welcome Marcus Jun!
We are delighted to welcome Marcus Jun as the new Head of the CDL Shared Cataloging Program! He joins us on Monday, February 10, 2025. Marcus comes from the Cal State system where he managed ebooks including gov docs and […]
Package changes (January 2025)
Global Financial Data changes Global Financial Data, Inc. will officially become Finaeon, Inc. on January 1, 2025. Eight UC campuses subscribe to Global Financial Data database: (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, LA, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz). Users will […]
CDL Job Opening: Project Manager position
The California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting for a temporary (one year) Project Manager position. As a member of the CDL’s Shared Collections program, the Project Manager will be a primary contributor to CDL’s current efforts to develop and implement […]
SCP Update – January 2025
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in December 2024 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 22 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 370 JSTOR Books DDA: 912 Taylor & Francis ebooks (CRC/netbases 2012 & prior): 84 Taylor & Francis eBooks (STMnetbase/CRC […]
WEST Cycles 14 & 15 Archiving Commitments Are Complete!
The WEST project team is pleased to announce that all archiving commitments for Cycles 14 & 15 have been submitted and analyzed! This analysis included several important and impactful updates to WEST’s collections model and archiving priorities: Expanded Archive Holder […]
The Who, What, and Why of Voluntary Validation
What does it mean to validate archived materials? WEST physical validation includes two components: the proactive compilation and verification of completeness of the backfile in a single location and the verification of the condition of the material. The effort put […]