Category: Shared Collections
WEST member meeting at ALA Midwinter in Chicago: Please RSVP if you plan to attend
The ALA Annual WEST Member Meeting is happening on Sunday, Feb. 01, 2015 from 1-2:30 pm in the Hilton Chicago (Continental C). Please RSVP to our poll (found here) (http://doodle.com/u7rqy5mrktpf8pm6) if you plan to attend. Please list your institution next to your […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: November 2014
For monographs, our major distributions included titles for Springer (1,269 titles), SuperStar (238 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (177 titles), Airiti PDA (153 titles), Open Access (106 titles), IEEE (101 titles) and Apabi (99 titles). For serials, our major distributions were for […]
Call for WEST Cycle 3 (2013/14) statistics underway
WEST cycle 3 statistics gathering is well underway! Thank you to everyone who has responded to our call – we greatly appreciate it. Following each cycle, WEST collects deselection, archiving and lending/borrowing statistics from our members and Archive Holders. These […]
Announcing University of California Libraries’ Shared Print RoadMap 2014-2018
The University of California Libraries recently adopted a roadmap for UC shared print activities for the next few years. Key projects and policies that our libraries will pursue and explore include: Coordinated print serials archiving to UCs two Regional Library […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Jewish Studies
Nine UC campuses (all except UCSF) now have access to JSTOR Jewish Studies. [B, D, I, LA, M, R, SB, SC, SD; on the JSTOR platform] The Jewish Studies Archive Collection features journals that cover a unique range of historical […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: October 2014
For monographs, our major distributions included titles for Naxos (4,686 titles), SuperStar Chinamaxx (385 titles), EBSCO Japanese DDA (315 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (144 titles), ASME (127 titles), Apabi (118 titles), Elsevier (103 titles), IEEE (84 titles), CalDocs (80 titles), Wiley […]
UCSF Partners with Google Books for Digitization Project
By guest blogger, UCSF Archivist Polina Ilieva The UCSF library is an important UC contributor to the Google Books digitization project. Through the collaboration with the California Digital Library (CDL) digitization team 1,317 volumes from the general and rare book […]
New Happenings at HathiTrust – August Update
New happenings at HathiTrust: The University of Michigan received a third grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) of 489K for copyright determinations work in their Copyright Review Management System (CRMS). The grant will fund the […]
WEST starts Archive Cycle 5!
WEST is pleased to announce that work is already underway for Archive Cycle 5! Currently, members are providing files of library journal holdings data for the fifth round of collection analysis. Each year, WEST members provide their holdings for regional […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: September 2014
For monographs, our major distributions included titles for Naxos (4999 titles), Springer (1402 titles), Wiley (208 titles), IEEE (152 titles), Apabi (100 titles), and YBP/Ebrary DDA (95 titles). For serials, our major distributions were for Open Access (635 titles) and […]