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SCP Update – January 2025
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in December 2024 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 22 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 370 JSTOR Books DDA: 912 Taylor & Francis ebooks (CRC/netbases 2012 & prior): 84 Taylor & Francis eBooks (STMnetbase/CRC […]
WEST Cycles 14 & 15 Archiving Commitments Are Complete!
The WEST project team is pleased to announce that all archiving commitments for Cycles 14 & 15 have been submitted and analyzed! This analysis included several important and impactful updates to WEST’s collections model and archiving priorities: Expanded Archive Holder […]
Webinar: Yale’s AI Summarization Tool Turbocharges Library Research
Yale’s Digital Collections AI can summarize and answer questions about all kinds of digitized material – a book, a handwritten journal, materials in major European languages and much more. For a researcher searching through a heap of digital material […]
The Who, What, and Why of Voluntary Validation
What does it mean to validate archived materials? WEST physical validation includes two components: the proactive compilation and verification of completeness of the backfile in a single location and the verification of the condition of the material. The effort put […]
New Streaming Videos: CathayPlay
Several UC campuses now have subscription access to a new Chinese streaming video platform called CathayPlay. CathayPlay, having launched in 2019, is new to working with North American libraries, and our UC campuses are excited to have […]
SCP Update – December 2024
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in November 2024 Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2024 All eBooks: 153 (GOBI) CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 182 JSTOR Books DDA: 265 Taylor & Francis eBooks (STMnetbase/CRC Press) 2021-: 131 Wiley Online […]
WEST Program Refresher Webinar – February 7, 9-10am PT
WEST is hosting a one-hour program refresher for all current members on Friday, February 7th from 9am-10am PT. This webinar will include information on WEST’s history, vision and mission, key features, membership, governance, and collaborations. This session will also provide […]
Celebrating WEST Archive Builders – What they do, who they are, what you can do!
The WEST program is unique in its use of a risk model that determines the level of effort invested in archiving the content. The majority of WEST Archivers agree to retain proposed titles and mark that commitment in the records’ […]
UC Libraries Renews Contract with Ex Libris Group for Two Years
The SILS Leadership Group announces the successful renewal of our contract with Ex Libris Group for the Alma/Primo VE software suite and a new two-year collaborative improvement project. Three years after going live with the centralized library management and discovery […]
SCP Update – November 2024
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in October 2024 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 917 JapanKnowledge Lib: 1276 JSTOR Books DDA: 242 National Academies Press: 7 Oxford Scholarship Online 2024 Frontlist: 118 (GOBI) Taylor & Francis eBooks (STMnetbase/CRC Press) […]