VIVA Announcements

VIVA cited in EDUCAUSE Review

VIVA’s PBS videos/Shibboleth project was mentioned in “Identity Management &Trust Services Foundations for Cloud Computing”, but Jack Suess and Kevin Morooney, published in the September/October 2009 edition of EDUCAUSE Review.

A PDF version is available on the VIVA website here:

http://www.vivalib.org/committees/adhoc/multimedia/ERM0951.pdf

The article is available on the EDUCAUSE website here:  http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume44/IdentityManagementandTrustServ/178410

VIVA Users’ Group Meeting, October 29, 2009

A brief summary of the Users’ Group Meeting and some of the materials presented at the meeting have been posted at http://www.vivalib.org/committees/outreach/vla09/index.html

VIVA Users Group Meeting at VLA

Colleagues,
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the VIVA Users’ Group on October 29.  It’s always wonderful to see so many old friends and to get a chance to meet some new folks too.  It was a packed room,  a full agenda, and I think everyone learned something.

Our thanks to Alan Zoellner (W&M for his update on the Stat-USA Task Force (we will be posting the link to the website soon) and to Donna Hughes-Oldenburg for her update on the VIVA TF on the OCLC Reclamation Project (we will post the report soon) and ODU’s experiences with the reclamation project.

A very special thanks to Iris Moubray (JMU Procurement) for stepping in to discuss procurement with us as a last minute replacement for Madelyn Wessel.  (Madelyn was very sorry to be called away at the last minute and has agreed to try to join us next year to do her talk on licensing, so we can look forward to that.)  As many of you know, Iris is something akin to a “National Treasure” in VIVA lore and it is my extreme pleasure to be able to work with her and her colleagues at JMU.  They do a fantastic job and VIVA members benefit every day from their excellent work.

Andrew Pearson, Director at Bridgewater College, took notes throughout the entire meeting (Thank you!) and we will post those as soon as they are available.

In the meantime, David Fiumara has sent this note about a question Tara raised about articles in the Safari Tech Books:

Anyone wishing more information can contact David directly
david.fiumara@proquest.com

Finally, many thanks again to our vendors — those who were present and even some of those who couldn’t be with us — for their generous donations.  We had drawings throughout the session for a lot of cool “techie stuff”, tote bags, beautiful books, bookstore gift certificates, a Harry and David gift basket, and even an iPod Shuffle.  So not only was it an informative session, but one might even say it was especially rewarding for many in the audience.

Next year’s VIVA Users’ Group will again be scheduled in conjunction with the Virginia Library Association meeting, October 28-29, 2010, Portsmouth, VA.  Please mark your calendars and plan to attend.  Let us know if you have suggestions for topics to be included.

All best,
Kathy and Tansy

Stat-USA Subject Guide

The VIVA Stat-USA Task Force has created at Subject Guide to assist users in discovering some of the materials formerly available through Stat-USA. It is available here:

http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/VIVAstats

Members are also reminded that U.S. Federal depository libraries in Virginia have access to STAT-USA. A list of Federal depository libraries is available here: http://catalog.gpo.gov/fdlpdir/public.jsp.

If your library is a Federal depository library and you have not yet received a password for STAT-USA, information about obtaining access is available here: http://www.fdlp.gov/outreach/partnerships/268-statusa-access

Please join us in thanking the VIVA STAT-USA Task Force members for their work on this project.

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