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November 2013 Newsletter

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Please follow the links below to check out the full posts from November 2013 on the WESTinfo blog.

 

WEST at ALA Midwinter 2014 in Philadelphia: Please RSVP if you plan to attend (November 30, 2013)

There will be a WEST Member meeting at ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia, Sunday, January 26, 2014 from 1-2:30 pm in MAR-Franklin 08… (more).

 

Managing the Print Archiving Process: Building a WEST Archive (November 25, 2013)

Winter is a busy time of year for WEST. In addition to gathering holdings data for cycle 4 collections analysis, our Archive Builders are also building cycle 3 print archives to hold in storage. Your institution may have recently received a request for holdings from an Archive Builder. WEST members are encouraged to contribute holdings to ensure the completeness of the archives. Your contributions are what make WEST’s archives strong… (more).

 

Updates from beyond WEST: Shared Print at the 2013 Charleston Conference (November 19, 2013)

At the Charleston Conference, two shared print groups, the Maine Shared Collections Strategy (MSCS) and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s (CIC) Shared Print Repository, presented on their projects, goals and activities… (more).

 

Emily Stambaugh speaks on “Reinventing Shared Print” and provides update on UC Shared Print and WEST (November 5, 2013)

The OCLC Collective Insight Series event, “Getting off the Island: Collaborating to Create Boundless Collections,” was held at Loyola Marymount University on October 15, 2013. The interactive program explored current and future opportunities to share print and electronic collections across libraries and library types, at network-scale… (more).