Category: Shared Print
Managing the Print Archiving Process: Answering a Call for Holdings
In November, we looked at how WEST Archive Builders manage and build print archives for silver and gold archive types (click here for a refresher). As part of this archive building process, Builders send a call for holdings to WEST member libraries […]
Reminder – WEST ALA Midwinter Meeting: Please RSVP if you plan to attend
ALA Midwinter is fast approaching; if you plan to attend the WEST Member meeting on Sunday, January 26, 2014 from 1-2:30 pm in MAR-Franklin 08, please RSVP. You can RSVP to our poll (found here) by submitting your name and institution. There is no […]
Updates from beyond WEST: Shared Print at the 2013 Charleston Conference
At the Charleston Conference, two shared print groups, the Maine Shared Collections Strategy (MSCS) and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s (CIC) Shared Print Repository, presented on their projects, goals and activities. In “Data to Decisions: Shared Print Retention in Maine,” […]
Emily Stambaugh speaks on "Reinventing Shared Print" and provides update on UC Shared Print and WEST
The OCLC Collective Insight Series event, “Getting off the Island: Collaborating to Create Boundless Collections,” was held at Loyola Marymount University on October 15, 2013. The interactive program explored current and future opportunities to share print and electronic collections across […]
UC Libraries receive grant to support Phase 2 of the Western Regional Storage Trust
Researchers can be assured that the scholarly record will be preserved for future generations through a coordinated system of trusted print archives held at libraries throughout the western United States. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of […]
Changes to WEST Program Management
We are pleased to announce some changes in the WEST (Western Regional Storage Trust) program management as WEST enters into its next 3-year phase (Phase 2). Beginning in October 2013, Emily Stambaugh, CDL Shared Print Manager, will serve as WEST’s […]
Emily Stambaugh to Speak on Shared Print
CDL’s Shared Print manager, Emily Stambaugh, will be a speaker at a free program entitled, “Getting off the Island: Collaborating to Create Boundless Collections”, co-sponsored by OCLC, SCELC (Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium), and Loyola Marymount University on October 15, […]
CDL Welcomes Danielle Watters Westbrook
We are pleased to announce that Danielle Watters Westbrook has joined CDL as our Shared Print Collections Analyst. Danielle will be supporting UC Shared Print and the Western Regional Storage Trust. Danielle brings a unique combination of skills in collection […]
OCLC Print Archives Disclosure Pilot final report
Beginning in late 2010, an ad hoc Coordinating Committee consisting of several individuals who were active in the shared print (print archiving) community began to explore ways in which libraries could use OCLC features and services to disclose retention commitments […]
Several new monographic series agreements endorsed in April
The Shared Monograph Planning Group is pleased to announce fourteen (14) initiative statements from UC Bibliographer groups to collaboratively collect monographic print series. Each initiative statement contains a list of print series and identifies a campus that has agreed to […]