VIVA Announcements

Usage Statistics Update 11/25/08

CSA stats for October 2008 have been posted.
LN Congressional stats for October 2008 have been posted.
OUP Journals stats for October 2008 have been posted.

Kriz Honored for VIVA Service

Kriz Honored for VIVA Service

Harry Kriz was awarded the first VIVA Distinguished Service Award on November 14, 2008, upon his retirement as Director of Interlibrary Services at Virginia Tech. The award read:
A Resolution

WHEREAS, VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia, is the cooperative consortium for 73 nonprofit academic libraries in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and

WHEREAS, InterLibrary Loan is an essential component of VIVA’s cooperative work, and

WHEREAS, Harry Kriz has generously provided professional guidance and mentoring support for interlibrary loan librarians at all stages of their careers, and

WHEREAS, Harry Kriz has always been the backbone of the VIVA InterLibrary Loan and the Resource Sharing Committees, and

WHEREAS, Harry Kriz has consistently provided excellent analysis of the ILL statistics for the Virtual Library of Virginia, and

WHEREAS, Harry Kriz has provided thought-provoking presentations about InterLibrary Loan to the VIVA ILL Community and to the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia’s Library Advisory Council on many occasions,

THEREFORE, NOW BE IT RESOLVED that VIVA recognizes and applauds the career of Harry Kriz, offers him our sincere thanks and gratitude for all that he has accomplished as an InterLibrary Loan librarian, and extends our warmest wishes to him upon his retirement.

Further, BE IT RESOLVED that in recognition of Harry Kriz’s remarkable dedication and superior service to his colleagues in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Virtual Library of Virginia hereby establishes the

VIVA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

and bestows upon Harry Kriz the honor of being the first person to receive this award.

So witnessed on this 12th day of November 2008:

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Connie Kearns McCarthy, Chair Katherine A. Perry, Director

Usage Statistics Update 11/20/08

ACS stats for October 2008 have been posted.
BioOne stats for September & October 2008 have been posted.
CIAO stats for October 2008 have been posted.
CRC stats for October 2008 have been posted.
Project Muse stats for October 2008 have been posted.

Usage Statistics Update 11/18/08

Annual Reviews stats for October 2008 have been posted.
Chemical & Engineering News stats for October 2008 have been posted.
Highwire stats for October 2008 have been posted.
IOP stats for October 2008 have been posted.
OED/ORO stats for October 2008 have been posted.
Science stats for October 2008 have been posted.
Stat-USA stats for October 2008 have been posted.
Ulrich’s Web stats for July - September 2008 have been posted.

Usage Statistics Updates, 11/14/2008

At long last…

Harpweek usage through July 2008 is available

Usage Statistics Update 11/11/08

Bowker stats for October 2008 have been posted.
Encyclopaedia Britannica stats for October 2008 have been posted.
EBSCO stats for October 2008 have been posted.
FirstSearch stats for October 2008 have been posted.

Mergent Training

Join the VIVA Resources for Users Committee and Mergent for a training session on the Mergent Online and Mergent Horizon Business databases.

Mergent Online is the authoritative source for information on over 10,000 US companies listed on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges, 20,000 non-US companies representing 95% of the non-US global market capitalization, 8,000 inactive companies which have been merged, acquired etc., and over 1 million privately held companies. Mergent Online includes financial information, annual reports, executive biographies, and historical information outlining merger and acquisition activity and extensive bankruptcy and reorganization details.

Mergent Horizon is a detailed industrial classification system that maps companies to their core lines of business and captures relationship exposure to their suppliers, partners, customers and competitors.  By classifying companies according to their products and services, Mergent Horizon allows for true comparables by providing information that helps students understand a company and its competitive position in the marketplace.

Hands-on workshops for VIVA librarians will be held in Harrisonburg, Radford, Williamsburg, and Alexandria. Each session will begin at 10 AM and will last approximately two hours. Registration information is available here: http://www.vivalib.org/committees/ruc/mergent_training.html

Usage Statistics Update 11/5/08

ACM stats for September 2008 have been posted.
AMS MathSciNet stats for October 2008 have been posted.
Gale stats for October 2008 have been posted.
OVID stats for October 2008 have been posted.