Category: Shared Collections
Upcoming WEST Meeting at ALA Annual Reminder: Please RSVP if you plan to attend
The ALA Annual WEST Member Meeting is happening on Sunday, June 29, 2014 from 1-2:30 pm in LVCC-N120. Thank you to everyone who has already RSVP’d. If you haven’t RSVP’d yet, there is still time! You can RSVP to our […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: May 2014
Our past month’s distributions for monographs included titles for Open Access (1195 titles), SuperStar (640 titles), Springer (345 titles), CRC Press (288 titles), Apabi (113 titles), IEEE (76 titles), Wiley (65 titles), and Elsevier (51 titles). The majority of the […]
New Licensed Resource: TAIR
TAIR http://uclibs.org/PID/262407 Nine UC Campuses (all except UCSF) entered a Tier 2 agreement to become among the first institutional subscribers to The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR). Arabidopsis thaliana is a flowering plant that is widely used as model organism for […]
UC Special Collections Highlighted
In a news article on the University of California website, UC archival collections are highlighted across the campuses. States the article, “While there’s no other band like the Grateful Dead, UC Santa Cruz is in good company insofar as housing […]
WEST Strategic Planning Meeting June 3rd
The WEST Executive Committee and Operations & Collections Council will meet on June 3 in Oakland, California to plan for subsequent WEST phases. The goals of WEST’s strategic planning this year are to explore options for change to the existing […]
WEST assessment survey a success!
The “WEST Phase 2 Assessment Survey 2014” ran from March 5, 2014 through March 24, 2014. Thank you to all participants! We received a very good response rate, with a total of 96 respondents. The results were representative of numerous […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: April 2014
I’m pleased to announce that SCP is now cataloging two high profile open access monographic collections, Knowledge Unlatched and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). The UC’s are charter members of Knowledge Unlatched, http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, a collaborative initiative enabling free […]
WEST at ALA Annual 2014 in Las Vegas: Please RSVP if you plan to attend
The ALA Annual WEST Member Meeting is happening on Sunday, June 29, 2014 from 1-2:30 pm in LVCC-N120. This year, in addition to a general program update, we will also include a brief orientation for new Archive Holders. (Additional orientation webinars […]
New Archive Holders in Cycle 4
WEST will invite many more member institutions to serve as Archive Holders in Archive Cycle 4 (2014-2015). WEST is currently completing its annual regional collections analysis for Archive Cycle 4 and has identified deep backfiles for potential archiving by members […]
WEST Invoicing 2014
WEST will issue member fee invoices in May/June for the calendar year 2014. As previously announced via email to members in December 2013, there will be increases to the member fees this year. As we advance to a fully member-supported […]