VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia

VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) is the consortium of the nonprofit academic libraries within

Here's a friendly reminder to please join us for the VIVA Anti-Racism Webinar Series  #6: Metadata and Cataloging. Regis...
03/14/2023

Here's a friendly reminder to please join us for the VIVA Anti-Racism Webinar Series #6: Metadata and Cataloging. Registration and more details are available through this link: https://vivalib.org/va/arwebinar6.

Registration for the VIVA Anti-Racism Webinar Series #6 is now open! We will cover the topic of Metadata and Cataloging. The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 22, 2023, from 10:00 am -12:00 pm. Whitney Buccicone and Jeremy Bartczak from the University of Virginia Library, David Heilbrun from the George Mason University Libraries, and Merrilee Proffitt from OCLC will join us. More information about the event, the speakers, and the link to the registration can be found here: https://vivalib.org/va/arwebinar6.

On March 23, 2023,VIVA will hold its second Community Forum, a virtual event meant to bring VIVA members together to con...
03/08/2023

On March 23, 2023,VIVA will hold its second Community Forum, a virtual event meant to bring VIVA members together to consider ideas relevant to the future of the consortium. This year’s theme, “Accessibility, Usability and Inclusion” will examine ways that VIVA members are working to address issues that face Virginia libraries and identify actions that can bring about positive change. We’ll begin the day with keynote speaker Renee Grassi, followed by panel discussions and engaging presentations. Registration for the 2023 VIVA Community Forum is now live. Check out our website for the event information:
https://vivalib.org/va/community-forum-2023.

Registration for the VIVA Anti-Racism Webinar Series  #6 is now open! We will cover the topic of Metadata and Cataloging...
03/06/2023

Registration for the VIVA Anti-Racism Webinar Series #6 is now open! We will cover the topic of Metadata and Cataloging. The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 22, 2023, from 10:00 am -12:00 pm. Whitney Buccicone and Jeremy Bartczak from the University of Virginia Library, David Heilbrun from the George Mason University Libraries, and Merrilee Proffitt from OCLC will join us. More information about the event, the speakers, and the link to the registration can be found here: https://vivalib.org/va/arwebinar6.

Registration is open for the VIVA Open Skills Academy: Building Your OER Practice. The VIVA Open Skills Academy, facilit...
12/01/2022

Registration is open for the VIVA Open Skills Academy: Building Your OER Practice. The VIVA Open Skills Academy, facilitated by Megan Simmons, ISKME, is a project-based, three-part webinar series that builds on the foundational skills and practices of collaborating to curate, evaluate, create, and share Open Educational Resources (OER) to further develop projects to advance OER.

Participants are expected to attend all three sessions and complete approximately five hours of practice activities to find, curate, publish, and share their OER project. Those who complete their projects will receive a Certificate of Completion. More details including dates and the link to the registration form can be found on this webpage: https://vivalib.org/va/viva-open-academy.

The Academy is open to Virginia higher education professionals, including faculty, educational technologists, library professionals, and administrators. Registration is open until noon on January 18, 2023 and registrants will be notified of their acceptance into the VIVA Open Skills Academy by January 20, 2023.

11/15/2022

We’re very pleased to announce that we are recruiting for two positions at VIVA!

The first is an E-Resources Librarian, who will work closely with the VIVA staff, member libraries, and committees to manage the standard collections renewal process and opt-in subscriptions by member libraries and provide e-resource access, management, and troubleshooting. More information is available here: https://jobs.gmu.edu/postings/55746.

The second is a Digital Publishing Coordinator, who will be an integral part of the VIVA program, supporting the VIVA Open Grant program and publishing activities of grant recipients, including developing a wide range of awarded digital publishing projects across institutions of higher education in Virginia. More information is available here: https://jobs.gmu.edu/postings/55745.

For full consideration, applications need to be received by 11/30/22.

The Open and Affordable Community Forum is coming up on Friday, October 14, 2022 and is now less than a month away!  Reg...
09/15/2022
VIVA, Virginia's Academic Library Consortium: VIVA: 2022 OACC Forum

The Open and Affordable Community Forum is coming up on Friday, October 14, 2022 and is now less than a month away!

Register for this year’s Open and Affordable Community Forum - https://vivalib.libcal.com/calendar/events/Open-Community-Forum-2022 – by September 30, 2022.

Visit the event page (https://vivalib.org/va/oacc-forum-2022) for the agenda and brief descriptions of breakout sessions. This year’s theme, “One Size Doesn’t Fit All,” seeks to open conversations about the diverse ways that Open Education Initiatives can meet the needs of students, instructors, and pedagogical goals. We’ll begin the day with keynote speaker Jasmine Roberts-Crews, followed by panel discussions and engaging presentations.

The event will be hybrid, with the in-person conference to be held at VCU’s campus. Morning refreshments and lunch are included.

We look forward to gathering and learning with you this fall!

-- On behalf of the Open and Affordable Planning Committee

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Please join VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education f...
11/08/2021

Please join VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education for the third session of the VIVA Open! Advancing Open Educational Practices Workshop Series on November 9, 2021, from 2-3:30 PM EST. We'll do a deep dive into OER design, authoring & remixing. Learn more here: https://vivalib.org/va/open/advance.

Please join VIVA& ISKME for the second session of the VIVA Open! Advancing Open Educational Practices Workshop Series on...
11/01/2021

Please join VIVA& ISKME for the second session of the VIVA Open! Advancing Open Educational Practices Workshop Series on November 2, 2021, from 2:00 - 3;30 PM. We'll engage with OER tools for discovery, evaluation, curation & collaboration. Learn more here: https://vivalib.org/va/open/advance.

Please join us for the VIVA Antiracism Webinar Series  #2: LIS Faculty of Color & LIS Education. Dr. Renate Chancellor, ...
10/05/2021

Please join us for the VIVA Antiracism Webinar Series #2: LIS Faculty of Color & LIS Education. Dr. Renate Chancellor, Catholic University of America, will provide a keynote on the theme of Social Justice: Moving From Awareness to Action in LIS. Learn more and find the link to register here: https://vivalib.org/va/arwebinar2.

09/07/2021
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Join VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia, to learn more about the application and selection process for the VIVA Open Adopt Grants. The current round of Adopt Grants opened July 20, 2021, and applications are due October 4, 2021. Register for the webinar here: https://vivalib.libcal.com/event/806564

Please join VIVA and ISKME for the VIVA Open! Advancing Open Educational Practices Workshop Series. Learn more, share wi...
08/27/2021

Please join VIVA and ISKME for the VIVA Open! Advancing Open Educational Practices Workshop Series. Learn more, share with colleagues, and register for the series here: https://vivalib.org/va/open/advance

VIVA is pleased to announce a new round of VIVA Open Adopt Grants. VIVA Open Adopt Grants provide awards of $2,000 to in...
07/26/2021
VIVA, Virginia's Academic Library Consortium: VIVA: VIVA Open Adopt Grants

VIVA is pleased to announce a new round of VIVA Open Adopt Grants. VIVA Open Adopt Grants provide awards of $2,000 to individual instructors to support the time it takes to integrate existing open or no-cost materials into a syllabus and to ensure that the results of those efforts are widely available to Virginia educators. The VIVA Open Adopt Grant RFP and application can be found on the VIVA website: https://vivalib.org/va/open/grants/adopt. Applications are due October 4, 2021.

Informational webinars will be held on the below dates. Registration is required.

July 28, 2021, 10:00 am: https://vivalib.libcal.com/event/8065552
August 31, 2021, 1:00 pm: https://vivalib.libcal.com/event/8065590
September 8, 2021, 2:00 pm: https://vivalib.libcal.com/event/8065644
September 21, 2021, 9:30 am: https://vivalib.libcal.com/event/806599

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Congratulations to VIVA’s Sophie Rondeau, one of the 2021 SPARC Open Education Leaders! https://sparcopen.org/news/2021/...
07/08/2021
Congratulations to the Open Education Leadership Program Class of 2021 - SPARC

Congratulations to VIVA’s Sophie Rondeau, one of the 2021 SPARC Open Education Leaders! https://sparcopen.org/news/2021/congratulations-to-the-open-education-leadership-program-class-of-2021/

Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email SPARC is thrilled to congratulate the fourth cohort of the Open Education Leadership Program on completing the program! Our 2021 graduating class includes 20 academic professionals from across the United States and Canada, officially bringing....

As part of a department-wide redesign of an introductory human geography course (a core curriculum course at George Maso...
07/06/2021
Human Geography Collection Resources

As part of a department-wide redesign of an introductory human geography course (a core curriculum course at George Mason University), Dr. Rosenfeld’s team adapted three open educational resources into a single online resource that includes original chapters by Dr. Rosenfeld and Dr. Nathan Burtch, incorporates ArcGIS Online, a mapping software, and homework assignments and check-point activities to facilitate assessment. https://vivaopen.oercommons.org/curated-collections/11?__hub_id=1

As part of a department-wide redesign of an introductory human geography course (a core curriculum course at George Mason University), Dr. Rosenfeld’s team adapted three open educational resources into a single online resource that includes original chapters by Dr. Rosenfeld and Dr. Nathan Burtch,...

Statewide partnership led by VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia, provides access to equity, diversity, and inclusion ...
06/29/2021
Statewide partnership provides access to equity, diversity, and inclusion collections at Virginia Tech

Statewide partnership led by VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia, provides access to equity, diversity, and inclusion collections:

“It is not possible to achieve a truly inclusive environment if only one story is adequately represented in the materials available, so these resources will help move us toward a collection that is more reflective of the community that we serve and of the future that we strive for at Virginia Tech...

Please join us for the 2021 VIVA ILL Community Forum, held virtually on Friday, July 9, 2021, from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. J...
05/06/2021
2021 VIVA ILL Community Forum

Please join us for the 2021 VIVA ILL Community Forum, held virtually on Friday, July 9, 2021, from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. Jill Hurst-Wahl will deliver this year's keynote entitled, Copyright & ILL: Change is Inevitable. Register here: https://vivalib.libcal.com/event/7764323.

Please join us for the 2021 VIVA ILL Community Forum, held virtually on Friday, July 9, 2021, from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. Jill Hurst-Wahl, professor emerita at the Syracuse University iSchool, will deliver this ye...

Check out VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia Transformation through Pandemic: Marymount University Member Spotlight t...
04/01/2021

Check out VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia Transformation through Pandemic: Marymount University Member Spotlight to learn how Marymount University Libraries rapidly and creatively responded to the pandemic. https://vivalib.org/c.php?g=836990&p=8026699

Registration is open for the VIVA Collections Forum, which will be held virtually on Friday, May 21, 2021, from 10 a.m. ...
03/25/2021

Registration is open for the VIVA Collections Forum, which will be held virtually on Friday, May 21, 2021, from 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. The schedule and link to registration are available here: https://vivalib.org/va/events/collforum2021. Please join us!

The deadline for VIVA Open Course Grant applications is 11:59 pm on February 23, 2021. Please note that applications rec...
02/15/2021

The deadline for VIVA Open Course Grant applications is 11:59 pm on February 23, 2021. Please note that applications received after that deadline will not be considered. Grant recipients will be notified on May 14, 2021. Learn more here: https://vivalib.org/va/open/grants/course.

Check out our Transformation through Pandemic: Washington & Lee University Member Spotlight to learn how Washington and ...
02/09/2021

Check out our Transformation through Pandemic: Washington & Lee University Member Spotlight to learn how
Washington and Lee University Library rapidly and creatively responded to the pandemic. https://vivalib.org/c.php?g=836990&p=8184003.

Please join VIVA on February 8 from 9:30-10:30 a.m. for an introduction to its Open Course Grant Program. This program a...
02/05/2021
VIVA Open Course Grant Webinar

Please join VIVA on February 8 from 9:30-10:30 a.m. for an introduction to its Open Course Grant Program. This program awards grants from $2,000-$30,000 to assist Virginia faculty in transitioning to no/low-cost course materials. Register here: https://vivalib.libcal.com/event/7335790

Please join VIVA for a general introduction to its Open Course Grant Program and discussion of its application process. This program will award grants from $2,000-$30,000 to assist faculty across Virginia in tr...

Please join VIVA on January 14 from 10-11 a.m. for a general introduction to its Open Course Grant Program and a discuss...
01/13/2021
VIVA Open Course Grant Webinar

Please join VIVA on January 14 from 10-11 a.m. for a general introduction to its Open Course Grant Program and a discussion of its application process. This program will award grants from $2,000-$30,000 to assist faculty across Virginia in transitioning to course materials available at no or low cost to students. Register here: https://vivalib.libcal.com/event/7335779.

Please join VIVA for a general introduction to its Open Course Grant Program and discussion of its application process. This program will award grants from $2,000-$30,000 to assist faculty across Virginia in tr...

We are thrilled to share the VIVA Open Course Grant Project, Graduate Research Methods in Social Work. Dr. Matthew DeCar...
01/12/2021
Graduate Research Methods in Social Work Collection Resources

We are thrilled to share the VIVA Open Course Grant Project, Graduate Research Methods in Social Work. Dr. Matthew DeCarlo and his team developed a complete package of materials for graduate classes in social work. Check it out here: https://vivaopen.oercommons.org/curated-collections/6?__hub_id=1

In order to both educate social work graduate students on the importance of research in the field and to better prepare them to conduct that research, Dr. DeCarlo and his team developed a complete package of materials for graduate classes in social work. This package will include a textbook, ancilla...

As this challenging year comes to a close, we send our deep appreciation to all those we've worked with over this last y...
12/17/2020

As this challenging year comes to a close, we send our deep appreciation to all those we've worked with over this last year and to our member libraries for the work they do to support higher education. We look forward to what the new year may offer.

Please join VIVA on December 16, 2020, from 1-2 p.m. for a general introduction to its Open Course Grant Program and a d...
12/15/2020

Please join VIVA on December 16, 2020, from 1-2 p.m. for a general introduction to its Open Course Grant Program and a discussion of its application process. This program will award grants from $2,000-$30,000 to assist faculty across Virginia in transitioning to course materials available at no or low cost to students. Register here: https://vivalib.libcal.com/event/7335764

We are excited to announce that our Request for Proposals for the next round of VIVA Open Course Grants (formerly Course...
12/11/2020

We are excited to announce that our Request for Proposals for the next round of VIVA Open Course Grants (formerly Course Redesign Grants) is officially open! Applications are due February 23, 2021, and award notification will take place on May 14, 2020. Learn more here: https://vivalib.org/c.php?g=836990&p=6425615.

Thanks to CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Funds provided by the Governor for streaming media content to support online and ...
12/10/2020

Thanks to CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Funds provided by the Governor for streaming media content to support online and remote education at the public institutions, VIVA is acquiring the SAGE Counseling & Psychotherapy, Criminology & Criminal Justice, and Nursing Video Collections for all public institutions. Discounts are available for the private institutions for these collections. Access is scheduled to start on January 1st!

How did Virginia libraries adapt and respond to the unprecedented challenges they faced this year as a result of the COV...
12/09/2020

How did Virginia libraries adapt and respond to the unprecedented challenges they faced this year as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic? Find out through our Member Spotlights: Transformation through Pandemic pages: https://vivalib.org/outreach/committee/featured-members

Thanks to CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Funds provided by the Governor for streaming media content to support online and ...
12/03/2020

Thanks to CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Funds provided by the Governor for streaming media content to support online and remote education at the public institutions, VIVA is acquiring the Docuseek2 Essential Collection for all public institutions with three years of access. Discounts are available for the private institutions for these collections in a variety of licensing options. Access is scheduled to start on January 1st!

Thanks to CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Funds provided by the Governor for streaming media content to support online and ...
11/30/2020

Thanks to CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Funds provided by the Governor for streaming media content to support online and remote education, VIVA is acquiring Academic Video Online (AVON) for the public institutions with discounts available for the private institutions. Access is scheduled to start on December 1st.

VIVA is thrilled to share the VIVA Open Grant project, Introduction to Petrology. Dr. Liu, Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, and th...
10/27/2020

VIVA is thrilled to share the VIVA Open Grant project, Introduction to Petrology. Dr. Liu, Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, and their team created an interactive microscopy textbook for use in geoscience courses, including petrology. View this OER here: https://viva.pressbooks.pub/petrology/.

We are thrilled to share, "American Literature: An Anthology of Texts From Early America Through the Civil War." This OE...
10/20/2020
An Anthology of Texts From Early America Through the Civil War

We are thrilled to share, "American Literature: An Anthology of Texts From Early America Through the Civil War." This OER, spearheaded by colleagues at Virginia Western Community College, curates existing public domain early American literature into an OER and replaces an anthology required for more than 400 students of an introductory English class each year. Access the OER here: https://vivaopen.oercommons.org/courses/an-anthology-of-texts-from-early-america-through-the-civil-war?__hub_id=1

This book is the result of students who have endeavored, over the semesters, to follow links to the public domain locations of the texts I assigned in the Survey of American Literature I course. The ease with which works in the public domain can be digitally accessed has enabled this book exist. In....

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Newly released! The Cardiovascular Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students by Andrew Binks. This is an undergraduate medical-level resource for foundational knowledge of common cardiovascular diseases, disorders, & pathologies.

Learn more! 👉 doi.org/10.21061/cardiovascularpathophysiology

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How do high-cost course materials impact students? For this , sharing a response from a Highlander to the Fall 2021 VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia survey on the impact of course material costs on educational equity among Virginia students. https://vivalib.org/va/open/survey
Newly released! Cell Biology, Genetics, and Biochemistry for Pre-Clinical Students by Renee LeClair is the first in a series of five preclinical medical education open textbooks. 🧬

This book is a collaboration between Virginia Tech Publishing and Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Learn more 👉 blogs.lt.vt.edu/openvt/2021/12/06/announcing-new-open-textbook-cell-biology-genetics-and-biochemistry-for-pre-clinical-students-by-renee-leclair

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We're pleased to announce a new agreement with VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia.

Researchers from participating institutions will be able to read all Wiley journals and publish open access in gold and hybrid journals.

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/3FtdkFn
"Importantly, this agreement guarantees all students, graduate students, and doctoral and postdoctoral researchers affiliated with VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia member institutions have access to all articles published in JCB, JEM, and JGP, and thanks to VIVA’s support, the ability to publish cost-free in the journals.”- The Rockefeller University Press Executive Director Susan King.
Learn how researchers in Virginia can benefit:
Virginia’s academic library consortium, VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia, and Rockefeller University Press (RUP) have entered into a Read-and-Publish Agreement. This agreement is the first of its kind for RUP in the United States and represents an important milestone in its transition to being fully Open Access. It offers a sustainable framework and provides 100% coverage of OA research article publication fees for authors at eligible VIVA member institutions. Learn more:
Free books, anyone? New VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia funding will enable a team of CNU Math Department professors to redesign materials for a statistics course, helping over 1,000 students save money: https://bit.ly/30qEQCb
Melissa Wells, an assistant professor at the University of Mary Washington College of Education, can officially start designing an Open Education Resources (OER) textbook - thanks to a $10,000 grant by VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia.📚

“It allows them to work around the limited funding in schools to get the resources they need," said Wells.

Learn more about the grant. ⬇️
Anne C. Osterman, director of VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia, delivered the keynote address at the inaugural Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) OER Summit, held Aug. 9 at Penn State's University Park campus. Sixty-two higher education institutions across the commonwealth were represented at the summit, which was co-hosted by Penn State and Affordable Learning Pennsylvania.

“OER (open educational resources) is about more than student savings — it is about student success and lifelong learning. It is about faculty empowerment and increased student engagement. It is about equity and diversity. … This is an opportunity for collaboration across the institution, from faculty to instructional designers to librarians to assessment professionals.”
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