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World Digital Preservation Day – 7 November 2024

            Each year, the Digital Preservation Coalition promotes World Digital Preservation Day, which falls on the first Thursday of November. In line with this year’s theme of Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities, the UC […]

WEST’s new pilot with member libraries and the Internet Archive aims to maximize deselections, expand access, and enhance preservation

WEST is launching a pilot to amplify and support library collaborative strategies for print collection management and preservation. Specifically, the pilot will involve coordinating the donation of duplicate copies of WEST archived titles to the Internet Archive to expand digitization […]

Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – September 2024

Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for September 2024 Content and Collections  […]

Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – August 2024

Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for August 2024 Content and Collections  […]

Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – July 2024

Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for July 2024 Content and Collections  […]

WEST welcomes new member libraries

WEST is very pleased to announce a new consortial membership agreement with the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI). Three new libraries join WEST in the first year of this opt-in consortial agreement: Loyola University Chicago, Southern […]

Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – June 2024

Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for June 2024 Content and Collections  […]

Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – May 2024

Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for May 2024 New Content and […]

Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – April 2024

Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for April 2024 New Content and […]

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 […]