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The Virtual Library of Virginia. 1994-2004 10 Years of Service to Virginia’s Nonprofit Colleges and Universities Ralph Alberico, James Madison University VIVA Steering Committee Chair Virginia Library Association VIVA Users Group October 28, 2004 Williamsburg, Virginia. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
1994-2004
10 Years of Service to Virginia’s Nonprofit Colleges and Universities
Ralph Alberico, James Madison University
VIVA Steering Committee Chair
Virginia Library Association VIVA Users GroupOctober 28, 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
The Virtual Library of Virginia
VIVA 10th Anniversary 1994-2004
VIVA Fundamentals VIVA levels the playing field …
Providing access to outstanding library collections for every student and faculty member in the Commonwealth.
VIVA is a sharing consortium…Member schools share collections, expertise and labor to achieve common goals.
VIVA creates extraordinary value from the Commonwealth’s financial investment…Leveraging purchasing power, increasing efficiency and developing economies of scale.
VIVA Provides
Over 150 databases -- indexing scientific and technical literature, providing access to instructional resources, and supporting nearly every discipline taught at Virginia colleges and universities
Access to over 20 journal collections including almost 6,000 scholarly journals and millions of articles available via the Web to VIVA students and faculty
Expedited interlibrary loan, making extraordinary print collections housed throughout Virginia available to students and faculty as easily as books in their own library
Software, systems and databases to improve access to and management of collections – e.g. Ariel, Virginia Heritage Project, Bowker Serials Analysis System
Training and documentation on use of e-resources, integration of resources with curricula, and resource sharing
Access Everywhere
The Remarkable Value of VIVA
Cost avoidance throughgroup purchases
July 1, 1994 to June 30, 2004:
$125,000,000
That’s a 1-to-5 payoff for Virginia!
Annual Searches and Article Downloads VIVA Databases, FY 1996-2004
-
2,000,000
4,000,000
6,000,000
8,000,000
10,000,000
12,000,000
1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04
SearchesArticles
Total Searches: 53,125,539Total Article Downloads: 16,147.331
VIVA Interlibrary Loan of Books and Articlesto Other VIVA Members
FY 1996 - 2004
-
20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
120,000
Privates
Public 2-Year
Public 4-Year
Total Biennial Budgets, All Sources1994-96 to 2004-06
0
2,000,000
4,000,000
6,000,000
8,000,000
10,000,000
12,000,000
14,000,000
16,000,000
Other (NEH Grant)
Private Nonprofit
Public
General Assembly
Distribution of VIVA Funds 2002-2004 Biennium
Budget Allocations 2002-04
Collections, 88%
Interlibrary Loan, 7%
Travel & Training, 1%
Administration, <4%
Advancing the Strategic Plan
Accommodating enrollment growth– VIVA collections are available to almost 400,000
students and faculty in schools from community colleges to doctoral universities
Increasing sponsored research– VIVA provides over 5,000 research journals in fields
from Astrophysics to Zoology– Millions of books and journals held by VIVA libraries
are available to students and faculty at any VIVA library
Improving instructional quality– VIVA serves as a trusted source of quality information
to support teaching and learning – VIVA works with librarians and faculty to promote
information literacy
FY 2004 VIVA Highlights
3 Regional 50 Minute Librarian workshops, July/August 2003
6th VIVA Community Interlibrary Loan Forum, July 2004 Legislative Outreach in Collaboration with Alliance for
Virginia’s Students New VIVA Domain Name
http://www.vivalib.org Jamestown Bibliography updated and placed on the Web
by the Virginia Heritage Project VIVA Tenth Anniversary Celebration and Forum,
September 2004
New VIVA Collections in 2004
BioOne bioscience research journals
Nature Microbiology 100+ new Nursing Journals from
LWW/Ovid Institute of Physics Archives
VIVA Budget News
Success with legislative outreach and VIVA advocacy
$2.1 million budget increase (26%) for the FY2005-2006 Biennium
Increased funding for collections Increased funding to support interlibrary loan Funding to reimburse independent nonprofit
lending libraries
Future Plans
Continue to develop high quality library services and collections
Analyze serials collections in Virginia to identify common priorities
Identify VIVA project priorities Improve the VIVA Web site Promote VIVA branding
Thanks for 10 Years of Success
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