CDLINFO News
CDL, CRL & HathiTrust Shared Print Collaboration collection comparison tool release
The WEST Project Team is pleased to acknowledge and report on the announcement of the CDL, CRL & HathiTrust Collaboration collection comparison tool release. The release of this publicly available, collection comparison tool brings new capabilities and network-level connections to […]
CRL joins the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance and Partnership for Shared Book Collections
As a founding member of the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance, WEST is pleased to share that the Rosemont Alliance Executive Committee has accepted the Center for Research Libraries’ (CRL) application to join the Rosemont Alliance as the newest partner program. […]
2021 WEST Executive Committee Election Results and Operations and Collections Council Appointment
WEST carried out elections for the Executive Committee between November 24, 2020 and December 21, 2020. The WEST project team is very happy to report that a quorum of 51% of the votes was surpassed in favor of the proposed […]
SCP Update – February 2021
For the detailed list of net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections, see the distribution statistics report for January 2021. SCP Overview Monthly Updates The following chart and table show the overall SCP cataloging […]
New Resource: Apabi 100 Chinese Historical Newspapers
Four campuses (UCB, UCI, UCLA, UCSD) recently licensed Apabi 100 Chinese Historical Newspapers –– 100 rare historical newspapers in the Chinese language published mainly in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Apabi 100 Chinese Historical Newspapers; http://uclibs.org/PID/386957 B, I, […]
JRNL Updates – New Gap Statement Enhancement
The Journal Retention and Needs Listing (JRNL) program recently unveiled enhancements that change how gaps are managed. In the past, institutions wishing to take advantage of JRNL’s gap filling mechanisms were required to list each missing volume, which contributing libraries […]
You Don’t Have To Be A Techie To Create Computer Transcriptions of Handwritten Documents
If your collection contains handwritten documents that could benefit from transcription, then Transkribus may be just what you need. Funded by the European Commission’s READ project, Transkribus can transcribe documents written in many languages and requires no technical knowledge on […]
Toyo Keizai Digital Content Library Now Available
The UC Berkeley Library has begun a new online subscription to the Toyo Keizai Digital Content Library; the license includes unlimited access and the publisher generously agreed to extend access to all UC campuses without any additional charge. Toyo Keizai […]
CDL, CRL & HathiTrust Shared Print Collaboration collection comparison tool release
In the beginning of 2020, CDL joined with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and HathiTrust to form a Collaboration for Shared Print Infrastructure. Working together, the Collaboration seeks to build on a decade of community innovation and expertise to […]
Announcing the ARK Alliance
We are thrilled to introduce the ARK Alliance as heir to the successful ARKs-in-the-Open initiative, which began in 2018 with the goal of launching an open, global community around Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) and their use as persistent identifiers in […]