[Web4lib] The Western Regional Storage Archive is now active

[Norma Jean Hewlett]

The California Digital Library has announced that the Western Regional
Storage Archive for print journals is now active. Their holdings can be
accessed through OCLC, using normal ILL procedures.

For more information, see: http://www.cdlib.org/west/

Here is their description of the archive:
"The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is a distributed retrospective
print journal repository program serving research libraries, college and
university libraries, and library consortia in the Western Region of the
United States. Under the WEST program, participating libraries consolidate
and validate print journal backfiles at major library storage facilities and
at selected campus locations. The resulting shared print archives ensure
access to the scholarly print record and allow member institutions to
optimize campus library space. This collaborative regional approach to
managing library collections represents an important step, when joined with
other initiatives, toward development of a network-level shared print
archive."