VIVA UPDATE
ILL COMMUNITY FORUM
JULY 17, 2015
Anne C. Osterman, VIVA Director
VIVA ILL 1996-2015
140,000
2,094,541 Total Loans!
120,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
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Private
Public 2-Year
Public 4-Year
VIVA Interlibrary Loan Resources
Cooperative Borrowing Project
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Now a standing VIVA program with 39
participating institutions
Allows students, faculty, and staff at VIVA
institutions to borrow materials on-site at any
participating library
A map of the participating institutions has been
added to the VIVA website
Cooperative Borrowing Project
Collection Cancellations
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FY15 Cancellations:
 American
Mathematical Society Journals
 CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
 Elsevier E-Book Frontlist not purchased for 2015
 MathSciNet
 ProQuest Congressional (ends 9/30/15)
 Springer Earth & Environmental Science e-book
collection not purchased for 2015
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Anticipated 7% budget cut for FY16 has been
limited to a 5% cut
RFP for Nursing and Social Sciences
Resources
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ProQuest Sociological Abstracts and PAIS and the
Ovid LWW Total Access collection shifted from
public-wide subscription to opt-in
New EBSCO full text databases for the public
institutions:
 CINAHL
is now CINAHL with Full Text
 EconLit with Full Text (also a Private Pooled Funds
product)
 Political Science Complete
 SocINDEX with Full Text
Monographic Collection Analysis
Project: The Basics
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Took place from 2013-2015
Pilot group of 12 libraries – doctoral, 4 year, 2
year, private
Included in the analysis:
 All circulating, English language print monographs
 Main libraries only
A total of just under 6 million records
Monographic Collection Analysis
Project: Resulting Initiatives
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A Memorandum of Understanding to protect the
unique and rare titles (unique in Virginia and held
by fewer than 10 libraries in the United States)
A Memorandum of Understanding for the
cooperative retention of widely-held monographs
by eight of the institutions
Establishing a voluntary recommended threshold
of four copies for new print monograph purchases
Focusing VIVA ebook acquisitions on publishers
with widely and highly and recently used print
titles
Monographic Collection Analysis Project:
Focus on Widely-Held Retention
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Designed to allow for safe deduplication across
the consortium
Protects two holdings for each title with one or
more uses and one holding for each title with zero
uses
Allocation was done through a prioritization of
subject areas for each institution
Protected titles are flagged in GreenGlass so that
institutions can use this software to generate
weeding lists that exclude these titles
Oxford Scholarship Online
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New to VIVA this year!
2015 Frontlist
Will total 1,089 books in a wide range of
disciplines
Allows E-ILL at the chapter level
Additional VIVA Meetings
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Virginia Heritage Town Meeting, August 2015
Collections Forum, September 2015