Category: WEST
New Shared Collections Bibliography
The Shared Collections Interest Group, part of the American Library Association’s Reference & User Services Association (RUSA) division, has released an informal bibliography of publications and resources related to shared collections in two areas of focus: New publications and resource […]
Spotlight on AGUA Development: Metadata Validation
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 […]
WEST Program Reflections – Progress on WEST 2019 Strategic Directions and 2021 Year-In-Review
In 2019 the WEST governance groups met in Oakland, CA, to define strategic recommendations to guide WEST’s work over the next three years. WEST has made considerable progress on the 13 strategic recommendations and sub-recommendations identified by the WEST governance […]
Report from the Joint Rosemont Shared Print Alliance / Partnership for Shared Book Collections Member Meeting
The Rosemont Shared Print Alliance and the Partnership for Shared Book Collections held their first annual joint membership meeting Feb 8, 2022. This meeting was grounded in an overarching theme that “Shared Print is open and big,” which weaved through […]
WEST Program Refresher
On January 19 WEST hosted an hour-long webinar that provided a refresher on the WEST program and an info session on WEST Archiving. The first half of the webinar covered the history of WEST as well as the vision, mission, […]
AGUA Development Phase 5: Final Report
Every other year, when not conducting the biennial collections analysis, WEST undertakes systems development on AGUA, the WEST collection analysis and decision support tool. Planning for the fifth AGUA Development Phase (“Phase 5”) began in the summer of 2020, with […]
WEST Cycles 12 & 13 Unarchived Holdings Ingest is Complete!
In September WEST distributed a call to members to submit files of their unarchived print journal and serial holdings to seed the Cycles 12 & 13 collections analysis. Members’ files have been received and ingested in AGUA, completing the first […]
2022 WEST Executive Committee Election Results; Affirmation of the WEST Vision, Mission, and Guiding Principles; and Operations and Collections Council (OCC) Appointments
WEST carried out elections for the Executive Committee and to affirm the program’s new Vision, Mission, and Guiding Principles between November 16, 2021 and December 10, 2021. WEST Executive Committee Election Results A quorum of 51% of the votes was […]
Rosemont Alliance Executive Committee 2021 Annual Meeting
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, […]
Spotlight on AGUA Development: Enhancing Local Discovery of Shared Collections
One of WEST’s major program goals is, of course, preserving the print record to ensure the ongoing availability of these materials for current and future scholars. But how do scholars find those materials if they’re held by other WEST members? […]