VIVA Announcements

Live from Computers in Libraries: Props to William & Mary’s Swem Library

March 30, 2009 on 3:37 pm | In General | No Comments

Swem’s Facebook application “Swem Tools” allows users to “set your location in the library to share with your friends over your facebook profile.” Pretty cool! Just mentioned in Joseph Ryan’s “Considering Facebook for the Library” talk.

Usage Statistics Update 3/24/09

March 24, 2009 on 3:23 pm | In Use Data Updates | No Comments

HighWire stats for February 2009 have been added.
LexisNexis Congressional stats for February 2009 have been added.
OED/ORO stats for February 2009 have been added.
Science stats for February 2009 have been added.
Stat-USA stats for February 2009 have been added.

Usage Statistics updates, 3/23/2009

March 23, 2009 on 12:23 pm | In Use Data Updates | No Comments

IEEE statistics for February 2009 have been posted. Also, CSDL statistics for October and November 2008.

Usage Statistics Update 3/17/09

March 17, 2009 on 3:25 pm | In Use Data Updates | No Comments

ACM stats for January 2009 have been added.
CIAO stats for February 2009 have been added.
Encyclopaedia Britannica stats for February 2009 have been added.
OVID stats for February 2009 have been added.

Usage Statistics Update 3/16/2009

March 16, 2009 on 4:11 pm | In Use Data Updates | No Comments

Project Muse statistics for February 2009 have been posted.

Usage Statistics Update 3/10/09

March 10, 2009 on 3:10 pm | In Use Data Updates | No Comments

AMS MathSciNet stats for February 2009 have been added.
Bowker stats for February 2009 have been added.
Gale stats for February 2009 have been added.

Usage Statistics Updates, 3/9/2009

March 9, 2009 on 1:40 pm | In Use Data Updates | No Comments

ACS stats for February 2009 have been posted.
C&EN stats for December 2008 have been posted.

2009 ILL Forum

March 6, 2009 on 10:22 am | In General | No Comments

The 2009 VIVA ILL Forum will be held on July 17 at Sweet Briar College’s Florence Ellston Conference Center in Sweet Briar, Virginia. Once again, we’d like to thank Sweet Briar for hosting us in their lovely facility.

The agenda is still under development, but Sally Wiant (Washington & Lee Law Library) will give the keynote speech on Copyright, and Dan Wilson (University of Virginia Health Sciences Library) will present “Backup procedures: catastrophic event preparation.”

The ILL Subcommittee would appreciate suggestions for additional topics and volunteers to lead sessions. Some topics that have been proposed are:

Strategies for Cost Cutting
Working with Campus IT
Media Sharing
Ariel and Odyssey (technical problems/solutions)
Justifying ILL

If you would like to volunteer to speak on any of these topics, have an idea for another presentation you’d like to give, or have topics in mind for discussion (even if you don’t want to lead), please let us know.

Registration and accommodation information will be posted shortly.

Usage Statistics Updates, 3/6/2009

March 6, 2009 on 10:05 am | In Use Data Updates | No Comments

MERGENT statistics for February have been posted.
CSA statistics for January have been posted.
EBSCO stats for February have been posted.
Wiley-Blackwell statistics for January have been posted.

FY09 Q2 ILL Stats have been posted

March 5, 2009 on 12:39 pm | In Use Data Updates, ill | No Comments

The FY09 Q2 ILL stats are available at: http://www.vivalib.org/committees/rsc/oclcdata.html