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Reminder and Full Agenda: WEST Members Meeting Thursday, July 29, 12:30-2pm PT
WEST will hold its 2021 summer members’ meeting virtually this year on Thursday July 29, 2021, from 12:30-2pm PT. Please register in advance for this meeting. Information for joining the meeting will be shared automatically after registering. Welcome and Opening […]
Colin Thompson joins CDL I&AS
Infrastructure & Application Support is pleased to welcome Colin Thompson as our newest member. Colin joins Joe Somontan and Martin Haye on the team that builds and maintains our technology infrastructure. Colin has strong ties with UC. He received a […]
Josh Maloney joins LBNL
Josh Maloney, CDL Business Operations Manager, has accepted a position as a Senior Financial Analyst with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. His last day with CDL will be July 2. Josh joined CDL at a time of great change just after […]
WEST Working Groups Update
In the 2019 Strategic Planning Session the WEST governance groups issued several recommendations to form working groups to review various aspects of the WEST program. The following working groups were formed and have been working on executing their charges over […]
Michael Walmsley moves to Baker & Taylor
Michael Walmsley, CDL’s Assistant Director for Systemwide Licensing, will be leaving his position at CDL to take up an opportunity at Baker & Taylor and the Follett Corporation as Vice President of Academic Sales. His last day at CDL will […]
WEST Releases Updated Disclosure Policy
In 2019, the WEST governance committees held a Strategic Planning session and issued a number of recommendations for the WEST program to take action on in the coming years, including to review and revise the WEST Disclosure Policy and Validation […]
New publication: AGUA Technical Team Accomplishments on Major WEST Development Project
The AGUA team has recently published an article in the Code4Lib Journal describing a major development project the team executed during the fourth WEST Development Phase (Phase 4), completed in 2019. This development project enhanced the AGUA system’s ability to […]
Enhancing Print Journal Analysis for Shared Print Collections
CDL’s WEST group published a paper in Code{4}Lib Journal; abstract and links are below. ****** Abstract: The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), is a distributed shared print journal repository program serving research libraries, college and university libraries, and library consortia […]
Save the date + Registration Open: WEST Members Meeting Thursday, July 29, 12:30-2pm PT
WEST will hold its 2021 summer members’ meeting virtually this year on Thursday July 29, 2021, from 12:30-2pm PT. Please register in advance for this meeting. Information for joining the meeting will be shared automatically after registering. This meeting will […]
Yearly WEST Contacts Review
WEST has recently sent an email to all Primary Contacts asking them to review and, if necessary, update their contacts for various WEST and AGUA activities. This ensures that WEST is sending communications to the appropriate staff at each member […]