[…] delighted to announce that Kristen Chua has joined the Information Services team as an Information Services Analyst beginning December 6, 2021. In her role, Kristen will provide essential support to both the users of CDL services and to the program […]
One of the major projects WEST undertook in 2021 to enhance AGUA was a project to improve metadata validation practices to support more rigorous data analysis by the AGUA Technical Team and to report back findings to WEST members to […]
The 2021–22 ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee recently released its top trends in academic libraries, which includes collaborative collections and the rapidly expanding shared print community. The Committee highlights shared print’s status as a change agent helping libraries balance […]
[…] Group (SCLG), is pleased to have been able to invest in several important open resources and tools in Fiscal Year 2021-22, reflecting our commitment to ’invest in open’ by allocating a portion of our collections funding to the development of […]
[…] an analysis of members’ print journal and serial holdings to identify archiving priorities for the next two years. In fall 2021 WEST members began the process for the next archiving cycles, Cycles 12 & 13, by submitting files of their […]
Dis co very o f W ES T C olle ctio ns Dis cu ssio n D ocu m en t What are your discovery needs for shared print? Exa m ple u se c a se s: Colle ctio […]
[…] candidate for the Shared Collections Service Manager position. Her new position starts today, May 1st. Lisa joined us in September 2021 in a contract position with CDL as the Shared Content Service Support Coordinator position. She – and we – […]
[…] as UC’s open access publishing goes up, the university will see no significant overall increase to the cost of its contract. The three-year agreement will allow UC and Cambridge to pilot this approach from 2019 through 2021… Cambridge University Press logo
