The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of California Libraries a nine month planning grant to organize the “Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST)” — a shared print repository service, focused initially on retrospective journal archives. UC Libraries in collaboration with regional library partners will band together to prepare service models for consolidating print journal holdings in responsible ways to provide efficiencies throughout the libraries. WEST is envisioned as a robust partnership that will allow libraries to build and manage a cooperative regional archive at the network level.  The proposal calls for library leaders in the Western Region of the United States to convene in Oakland, CA to (1) design operating, governance, and business models to support cooperative print archives among diverse partners; (2) establish standards for low-level validation and disclosure; and (3) develop selection criteria incorporating risk-management principles to ensure persistence within the broader context of similarly intentioned national and international efforts.

Library leaders from UC, Orbis-Cascade, GWLA, SCELC, Stanford, CalTech, Occidental College and more will band together to design the Western Regional Storage Trust incorporating sustainable models for participation amongst a wide variety of partners.  We are pleased to announce that Lizanne Payne, Director of the Washington Research Library Consortium, will serve as the consultant for this process.

For more information, please contact Emily Stambaugh, CDL Shared Print Manager.

The UC campuses have recently obtained perpetual access to nearly every Springer ebook published in English and German from 2005 to 2009, including Landolt-Bornstein, the largest compilation of data in physics and chemistry.  The collection includes nearly 20,000 books from every scientific discipline and many social sciences.

The licensing terms are in line with the UC Libraries’ Guiding Principles for Collecting Books in Electronic Format "Collection Development Committee, May 2008" including favorable Interlibrary Loan provisions, perpetual access, unlimited concurrent users, and digital rights management (DRM)-free PDF format.  In addition, the interface is familiar to users, as we have been subscribing to journals on SpringerLink for several years.
Books are available in the following categories:

• Architecture and Design 
• Behavioral Science 
• Biomedical and Life Sciences
• Business and Economics 
• Chemistry and Materials Science
• Computer Science
• Earth and Environmental Science
• Engineering
• Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Medicine
• Physics and Astronomy
• Professional and Applied Computing

(There are a few books from 2005 to 2009 that are not accessible because they are jointly published with another publisher, and excluded from this project.)
The books will be linked from campus catalogs as well as from Melvyl, UC-eLinks and Google Scholar. They can also be browsed or searched directly at http://springerlink.com/.

This pilot will be used to study the viability of ebooks as a replacement for print books, including such factors as determining:

• which disciplines are more and less conducive to the use of electronic books
• which types of books might be more appropriate as ebooks
• which types might be less likely to be used in this format

A shared UC print copy of each of the books has been included in the package and it will be possible for users to order a print copy of any of the available books for $24.95 from Springer’s Print on Demand Service (MyCopy).

If you have questions and concerns please visit the Inside CDL page below for this resource.  You will find there a list of contacts including your campus contact.   You will also find a press release for your users, a poster/flyer and information about training as it becomes available.  The page is available at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/springerebooks/.

Further communications with more specific information will be going out to specific functional groups such as Collection Development, Acquisitions, Interlibrary Loans and Technical Services.

CDL Shared Print has issued a call for proposals for prospective Shared Print monograph collections in Area Studies.  CDC and CDL Shared Print collaborated to design a new, distributed framework for cooperative monograph collecting which will support the continued development of the UC Libraries’ collective collections of international materials.  The call has been issued to the Chairs of Bibliographer groups, particularly of Area Studies groups, with an anticipated deadline of January 30th and an open invitation for proposals throughout the year. The distributed framework envisions a nimble structure for campuses and extramural partners to make commitments to collect monographs in certain areas, supported by a formal Memorandum of Understanding between participating libraries and a common infrastructure to support cross-campus visibility of monograph orders.

As bibliographers prepare their proposals, CDL Shared Print has also appointed a temporary task force to guide the implementation of the Shared Print monograph proposals across the various library services and to investigate infrastructure requirements.  The CDL Shared Print Steering Task Force is comprised of leadership level experts from UC Libraries in collection development, technical services, acquisitions, cataloging, resource sharing, regional library facilities management and preservation.  A key component of distributed Shared Print collecting will be the development of policies and common standards of practice for shared materials across the functional areas of collection management and library services.  The task force will study and develop these policies and standards to support this new model of collection development.

For more information about CDC and CDL Shared Print’s framework development:
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/documents/TaskForce_finalreport_103008.doc

The Memorandum of Understanding:
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/documents/MOUareastudies.doc

The Shared Print Steering Task Force:
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/spstf/index.html

Proposal ToolKit (for bibliographers):
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/prospective_spm_toolkit.html

CDL/CDC Shared Print has a new website.
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/

The new site is integrated into Inside CDL and can be accessed through the Collection Development Process and Collections pages.  The site consists of two parts:

1. Main Shared Print page
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/

2. Agreements and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) pages
One of the goals for Shared Print is to bring greater visibility to current cooperative print agreements. These pages index the active cooperative print agreements made by UC Bibliographer groups, individual UC Libraries, extramural partners and the California Digital Library (on behalf of the UC Libraries).

The pages include active agreements that have been formalized and publicly posted.  Agreements that are managed by CDL/CDC Shared Print are identified with a special icon for Shared Print.

Agreements are grouped by Broad Discipline (Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, Area Studies, Government Publications and Maps) and further identified as prospective or retrospective projects.

• CDL/CDC Shared Print and Other Cooperative Agreements (combined list) [http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/agreements_combined.html]
• CDL/CDC Shared Print Agreements [http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/agreements_sp.html]
• Other Cooperative Agreements [http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/agreements_other.html]