We are delighted to announce that Esther Verreau has joined the Publishing, Archives, and Digitization group as a Senior Software Developer, starting today, September 20, 2021. As a senior level applications programmer Esther will be part of a team that […]
We are delighted to announce that Erin Winter has joined the Publishing, Archives, and Digitization group as a part-time Application Programmer, starting November 15, 2021. Erin will be working closely with the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory on Open Access and OSTI […]
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, […]
We are 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 […]
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 […]
CDL’s Shared Collections team, in consultation and collaboration with the UC-wide Shared Collections Leadership 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 […]
Every other year WEST conducts 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, […]