Category: Shared Print
WEST Cycles 12 & 13 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 12 & 13 collections analysis. Members’ files have been received and ingested in AGUA, completing the first […]
2022 WEST Executive Committee Election Results; Affirmation of the WEST Vision, Mission, and Guiding Principles; and Operations and Collections Council (OCC) Appointments
WEST carried out elections for the Executive Committee and to affirm the program’s new Vision, Mission, and Guiding Principles between November 16, 2021 and December 10, 2021. WEST Executive Committee Election Results A quorum of 51% of the votes was […]
Rosemont Alliance Executive Committee 2021 Annual Meeting
The Rosemont Alliance Executive Committee held its annual ‘in person’ meeting virtually on December 6. The Executive Committee received updates from the Operations Committee on the Rosemont Alliance task list and progress made in pursuit of the strategic directions, reviewed, […]
Spotlight on AGUA Development: Enhancing Local Discovery of Shared Collections
One of WEST’s major program goals is, of course, preserving the print record to ensure the ongoing availability of these materials for current and future scholars. But how do scholars find those materials if they’re held by other WEST members? […]
Partnership for Shared Book Collections Quarterly Report (September 2021) now available
The Partnership for Shared Book Collections has released their quarterly report for 2021Q3. The report includes a roundup of accomplishments the Partnership has achieved in the last three months, updates Partnership governance committee and working group areas of focus, and […]
WEST Cycles 12 & 13 Call for Unarchived Holdings & Webinar
WEST is getting ready to identify the next round of archiving priorities for archiving Cycles 12 & 13! We are therefore asking all WEST Members (Full and Supporting) to provide MARC bibliographic and holdings data for your currently held, unarchived, […]
Updates to the WEST Executive Committee Composition and Candidacy
In 2021, the WEST Executive Committee reviewed WEST’s governance documentation and made two updates to the Executive Committee’s composition and candidacy parameters to expand the range of perspectives that shape WEST’s strategic directions and to further enhance the connection between […]
Cycle 10 (2021) Collection Comparison Reports Now Available
One of the many benefits of WEST membership is the regular collection analysis that feeds our archiving activity; we also share the results of our analysis with members in yearly collection comparison reports as well as the On Demand Comparison […]
New Publications of Note
The past several months have seen a flurry of new publications focused on the historical and ongoing evolution of print management in libraries. Ben Walker of the University of Florida published a history of library storage solutions at the University […]
Notes from WEST’s July 2021 Member Meeting
WEST’s 2021 summer member meeting was held virtually on July 29. Meeting participants included a number of returning and first-time attendees, and included staff representing Archive Builders, Archive Holders, and Non-Archive Holders as well as WEST’s Rosemont Alliance partner programs. […]