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

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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

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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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