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 The Virtual Library of Virginia

VIVA 10 th Anniversary

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 through group 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 Total Searches: 53,125,539 Total Article Downloads: 16,

VIVA Interlibrary Loan of Books and Articles to Other VIVA Members FY

Total Biennial Budgets, All Sources to

Distribution of VIVA Funds Biennium

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  6 th VIVA Community Interlibrary Loan Forum, July 2004  Legislative Outreach in Collaboration with Alliance for Virginia’s Students  New VIVA Domain Name  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 FY 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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