Category: Shared Print
OCLC Launches Shared Print Infrastructure Enhancements
In 2018 OCLC and the Center for Research Libraries were awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a joint Shared Print Data Infrastructure project. Two major development projects that OCLC and CRL have undertaken are a […]
Registration Open for Virtual PAN Forum – June 26, 12-3pm PT
Registration is now open for this year’s Print Archive Network (PAN) Forum, which will take place virtually on June 26, 2020, from 12-3pm PT / 2-5pm CT. The PAN Forum will include updates from various shared print programs and initiatives, […]
WEST contact updates
WEST has recently sent an email to all Primary Contacts asking them to review and, if necessary, update their contacts for various WEST activities. This ensures that WEST is sending communications to the appropriate staff at each member institution, and […]
WEST Members’ Virtual Meeting on Monday, June 22, from 1-2:30 pm PT – Registration open!
WEST will hold its summer members’ meeting virtually outside of the ALA Annual virtual conference this year on Monday, June 22, from 1-2:30 pm PT. Members do not need to be registered for ALA in order to attend the members’ […]
Partnership for Shared Book Collections – Save the Date: Webinar: Best Practices for Shared Print Programs | Wednesday, June 3rd at 1pm
This will be the first official Partnership event since UC Libraries Shared Print Program joined the federation. The coordination and development of best practices for shared print is an opportunity to align existing programs, pave a smooth way for new […]
Call for Cycle 9 Archiving Disclosures – Due June 30, 2020
The WEST project team recently sent out a call for WEST Archive Holders and Builders to submit metadata records describing the journal backfiles archived during WEST Cycle 9. Back in September 2018, WEST members committed to titles for archiving during […]
UC Libraries’ Shared Print Program Joins the Partnership for Shared Book Collections
The University of California Libraries’ Shared Print program has joined the Partnership for Shared Book Collections, a federation of shared print monographic programs that aims to coordinate shared print collaboration in North America to support cost-effective retention and access to […]
Analysis sheds light on changes in journal risk level over time
As the collection analysis progresses, the WEST project team has been performing some additional lightweight analyses to investigate points of interest that came to light in the 2019 program assessment. WEST has not historically performed any retrospective reviews of archived […]
AGUA Development Phase 5 – Input Requested
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 […]
WEST archiving activities & resources for library services during and after COVID-19
With the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and resulting healthcare concerns, as well as the widespread and potentially long term closures that WEST libraries are experiencing, the WEST project team encourages any member institutions that are still open and operating to pause […]