Category: Shared Print
WEST Summer 2024 Member Meeting – Harnessing the value of shared print in local action
WEST will hold its summer 2024 member meeting virtually on Friday, July 26, from 10am-12pm PT. The meeting will include sessions reporting to members on the continuation of Future of WEST planning and implementation. There will also be a workshop […]
California Digital Library Welcomes Nika Worth as Shared Print Analyst!
I am delighted to announce that Nika Worth will join the California Digital Library (CDL) as Shared Print Analyst effective Monday, July 8, 2024. The Shared Print Team at CDL is part of the Shared Collections program area, which also […]
Journal Archiving Campaign Service (JACS) Refresher Webinar – Thursday, June 6, 1-2:15pm PT
Please join UC shared print enthusiasts for this refresher webinar, which will provide an overview of the Journal Archiving Campaign Service (JACS), one of UC Libraries’ long-standing serial shared print initiatives. We hope that a wide range of UC library folks […]
Opportunity for WEST members to share development ideas and needs
During ‘off years’ of the collection analysis cycle, WEST works on identifying and building out enhancements to AGUA (https://agua.cdlib.org/west), both on the backend to increase automation and improve our ability to perform the collection analyses and on the front end […]
Call for Cycle 13 WEST Archiving Disclosures
The WEST project team recently sent out a call for WEST Archive Holders and Builders* to submit records of all materials archived for WEST to CDL via the file upload tool in AGUA. WEST asks that members include records for […]
The WEST Executive Committee Establishes a Steering Committee & Updates Composition and Eligibility Requirements
In February 2024, the WEST Executive Committee approved a proposal to shift from a committee leadership structure of Subcommittees to a Steering Committee. Additionally, the Executive Committee finalized updates to the committee’s composition and eligibility requirements. Establishing an Executive Steering […]
CDL Job Openings: Shared Print Analyst and UX Designer positions
The California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting for two outstanding openings: the Shared Print Analyst and UX Designer positions. SHARED PRINT ANALYST Are you passionate about print collection management in academic libraries? Do you thrive in cooperative environments, excel […]
Upcoming Shared Print Events
Shared Print Actions: Terminology follow up discussions The Shared Print Metadata Guidelines (SPMG) working group hosted a public webinar on November 7 to formally introduce the draft terminology as well as plans for approving it across the shared print community. […]
WEST Cycles 14 & 15 Unarchived Holdings Ingest is Complete!
In September WEST distributed a call to members to submit files of their unarchived print journal and serial holdings to seed the Cycles 14 & 15 collections analysis. Members’ files have been received and ingested in AGUA, completing the first […]
Shared Print Publication: A Model to Determine Optimal Numbers of Monograph Copies for Preservation in Shared Print Collections
In September, College & Research Libraries published the much-anticipated “A Model to Determine Optimal Numbers of Monograph Copies for Preservation in Shared Print Collections.” This paper is the culmination of work in the Partnership for Shared Book Collections into risk […]