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January 2020 Newsletter

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2020 is starting off with a flurry of activity in WEST and the shared print community! WEST has wrapped up analysis of the 2019 Member Assessment and has produced a report on the findings, and the WEST governance committees met in Oakland, CA, for a strategic planning session that discussed the assessment findings and identified a number of recommendations and next steps for the WEST program. Additionally, WEST has concluded its annual Executive Committee election, and is pleased to welcome two new members plus one continuing member to the group, as well as a new member to the Operations and Collections Council. Finally, ALA Midwinter is quickly approaching, where the WEST project team will be discussing these findings and outcomes as well as participating in a number of other discussions with and about the shared print community.

 

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

 

Ø  2019 WEST Assessment Report and Strategic Planning Outcomes + Webinars: During 2019, the Western Regional Storage Trust performed its third program assessment, which was comprised of a member survey distributed to Directors and Primary Contacts, two Archive Builder focus groups, and three general focus groups. The WEST project team has written a report analyzing and discussing findings, which also seeded the 2019 WEST Strategic Planning meeting held in October 2019 in Oakland, CA. The WEST project team will be hosting several sessions at the end of January to present the findings of the assessment and the outcomes of the strategic planning meeting and to engage the wider WEST membership in discussion about each. Read on for more information about the assessment project as well as links to the report and strategic planning outcomes, and to register for one of the webinar sessions.

 

Ø  WEST Member Meeting at ALA Midwinter: The WEST Member Meeting at ALA Midwinter will be held on Sunday, January 26 from 1-2:30pm EST. The agenda for this meeting will include a presentation on and discussion of the 2019 WEST Member Assessment results as well as outcomes from the strategic planning session that took place in October. Read on for location information and to register for the Zoom meeting for remote participation.

 

Ø  Rosemont Shared Print Alliance Open Information Session at ALA Midwinter: The Rosemont Executive and Operations Committees will be hosting an open information session to orient participating program libraries to the work of the Alliance and what’s coming up in the near future, including opportunities to get involved. Attendees will hear from both the outgoing and incoming executive committee chairs, operations committee members (including 2020 Ops Committee chair, WEST Program Manager Alison Wohlers), and will have ample opportunity for questions and discussion. Read on for session details.

 

Ø  Shared Print Meetings at ALA Midwinter: This year’s ALA Midwinter meeting in Philadelphia, PA, will include several sessions of interest to the shared print community, including updates from the Print Archive Network, a discussion about inventories and risk in shared print, and an open informational session on the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance. Read on for a list of sessions of interest to the shared print community.

 

Ø  2020 WEST Executive Committee Election Results and Operations and Collections Council Appointment: WEST has concluded its annual election of new Executive Committee members and would like to extend a warm welcome to Melissa Desantis (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) and Faye Chadwell (Oregon State University), who will be serving through 2022, and an enthusiastic ‘welcome back’ to Mimi Calter (Stanford University) who is extending her term through 2020. Additionally, Mary Grenci (University of Oregon) has been appointed by the WEST Executive Committee to serve a three-year term on the Operations and Collection Council. Read on to learn more about the vital work these committees perform.

All the best,

The WEST Project Team

 

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