June 5, 2003

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Alabama Virtual Library

• June 5, 2003

Alabama Public Library Service
Rebecca S. Mitchell, Director
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AVL Databases


Academic Search Elite Access Science African-A
merican History and Culture Alabama Libraries A
rticleFirst Britannica Online Britannica Onlin
e School Edition Business and Company Resource C
enter Business Index ASAP Business Source Elit
e Congressional Members Directory Contemporary
Authors Directory of Publications EBSCOhost W
eb Electric Collections Online Encyclopedia of
Animals Encyclopedia Of Literature ERIC Es
say Finder Ethnic NewsWatch Expanded Academic
ASAP Federal Agency Directory FirstSearch Fun
k Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
General Reference Center Gold
GPO Monthly Catalog Health Source Consumer Edit
ion
Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
Historic Documents Informe InfoTrac Junior Ed
ition InfoTrac Kid's Edition InfoTrac OneFile
InfoTrac Student Edition Kids' Korner LegalT
rac Lifetime Readings Literature Resource Cen
ter MAS Ultra - School Edition MasterFILE Prem
ier MEDLINE Middle Search Plus Military Go
vernment Collection National Archives Documents
Newspaper Source Novelist PapersFirst Poem
Finder Primary Search ProceedingsFirst Prof
essional Development Collection PubMed
Recommended References Regional Business News S
cience Study Guides Scribner Writers Series Se
archasaurus Serials Solutions SIRS Discoverer
SIRS Government Reporter SIRS Knowledge Source
SIRS Renaissance SIRS Spotlight of the Month
Story Finder The Year's Best Poetry Today's
News Twayne's Authors Series U.S. Justices Dir
ectory U.S. Presidents Directory U.S. Supreme
Court Decisions Union List of Periodicals USP
DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient
Vocational and Career Collection
World Almanac World Almanac Excerpts World Alm
anac for Kids WorldCat

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AVL Partners

• Alabama Commission on Higher Education
• Alabama Department of Postsecondary
  Education
  
• Alabama Public Library Service
• Alabama State Department of Education
• Alabama Supercomputer Authority

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AVL Card began on May 1, 2000 Statistics as o
f June 4, 2003 Cards Issued 429,360 Logins 7
67,425 These statistics reflect AVL card usag
e only. They do not reflect IP authenticated ac
cess. Cards are issued at all public schools, p
ublic libraries and most community college
libraries.
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A Typical Day for the AVL
February 10, 2003 Total AVL users -- 404,65
3 Total number of users added within the last 24
hours --760 Total number of sessions in the last
24 hours 1,664 Total number of first-time users
to the AVL in the last 24 hours -- 247
Total number of users who renewed in the last 24
hours -- 62
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Access to the Virtual Library

• Academic
• 100 of NAAL members have IP addresses
• 100 of postsecondary schools have IP addresses
• Public libraries
• 97 public libraries have IP addresses
• The remaining public libraries use passwords
• K-12 schools
• 100 of K-12 public schools have IP access

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Partnerships With the AVL

• Alabama Humanities Foundation
• On-Line Alabama Encyclopedia
• State Department of Education
• Even Start Statewide Family Literacy Initiative
• UA Program for Rural Services Research
• Alabama On-Line High School
• Foster Parents of Alabama
• Alabama Department of Human Resources

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AVL ExpendituresFY 20032,670,761

• Databases 2,495,761
• Promotion 60,000
• Technical support 115,000

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AVL Future

• Additional database resources
• Training and promotion activities
• Provide access to state government
• web-based information
• Additional