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Updates on membership, archiving, systems development, program officer recruitment, and more. Learn about AGUA, JRNL, and collaborative initiatives. Join us for a fruitful discussion!
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WEST Members Meeting ALA Midwinter Conference Denver, CO 2018
Topics • Introductions • Membership Update • Archiving Update • Systems Development • WEST and Rosemont • Program Officer Recruitment
Member Types All Members 69 institutions west of the Mississippi Access to archived titles Can nominate titles AGUA On-Demand collection comparison reports Full Members Archive Holder eligible Unarchived holdings are eligible for inclusion in WEST collection analyses Use AGUA and JRNL to expose and fill gaps
Membership Fees Update • Milestones for 2017 • Transition from NCES EXTOT to IPEDS LEXTOT for generating member fees • Final year of increases to replace grant funding (28% 25%) • Release of the 2017-2019 three-year schedule of member fees for long-range planning purposes • With 2018, increases plateau to 3% • Ongoing assessment of fee schedule and tiers
Membership Fees Cover Individually, Members Support
WEST Archived Titles (Bronze) (Silver) (Gold) *Includes titles for which there is abstracting and indexing electronic availability and titles with no clear electronic availability.
Collections Analysis for Cycles 8 and 9 Unarchived holdings data from 65 different OCLC symbols 1,922,108 records loaded
AGUA Refresher WEST disclosures of archived titles Archived titles disclosed by other programs
Completed AGUA Phase 3 Systems EnhancementsPreparing for Phase 4 Systems Development WEST Member Collection Management WEST Back-End Collection Analysis
Welcome Collaboration with other programs An alliance of shared print journal programs http://rosemontsharedprintalliance.org/ WEST Webinars: Rosemont Shared Print Alliance
Common vision • To ensure the preservation and availability of print journal literature. • To collaboratively develop, manage and coordinate the identification, retention, registration, discovery of and access to a shared, distributed collection of print journals in the United States.
Strategic Directions and RoadMap Strategic Directions 2017-2021 • Collection Growth • Shared Policies/Guidelines • Engagement with other programs and service providers
Rosemont Governance Executive Committee
Rosemont Governance Operations Committee
Collections Analysis and Decision Support • RFPforserialsanalysistoolsin2015: SCSresponded • SCS Service Exploration • Conductedfocusgroupsandsurveysofusers • WorkedwithCDL/WESTtounderstandaspects of the AGUA tool • ReceivedinputfromRosemontExecutiveCommittee • Product development proposal(in collaboration with CRL) • Rosemont webinar and survey to participant program institutions • Update on recent communication with SCS and CRL
Program Officer Recruitment • We anticipate posting the position description relatively soon. • It will continue as a shared position with UC Libraries Shared Print. • Send questions and candidate ideas to Ivy!
Thank you! http://www.cdlib.org/west Ivy Anderson Interim WEST Program Manager ivy.anderson@ucop.edu Alison Wohlers WEST Operations and Collections Analyst alison.wohlers@ucop.edu