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 The Virtual Library of Virginia
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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