The presentation was delivered in September 2013 to attendees of the annual Kentucky Library Association Conference. It details services and programs provided at significant cost avoidance to members of KYVL.

1. For the Greater Good:
How KYVL Strives to Serve Kentucky
KLA/KASL Joint Conference
11-14 September 2013

2. Equality of
access to
digital
resources
25+
licensed
databases
KY
Digital
Library
Materials
delivery
statewide
Library
apps; e.g.
the catalog
KY
Learning
Depot
About KYVL

3. KYVL Partners
• Kentucky’s public universities [8 institutions]
• KY Community & Technical College System [16 colleges]
• Public K-12 School [about 2/3rd of districts]
• Pubic Libraries
• Association of Kentucky Independent Colleges & Universities (AIKCU) [20
institutions]
• Private K12
• Special Libraries such as Barr Memorial
• Other Independent Colleges/Universities
• Hospitals
• State agencies

4. Kentucky’s Senate Bill 1
• Kentucky Council on Postsecondary
Education (CPE),
• Kentucky Board of Education (KBE), and
• Kentucky Department of Education (KDE)
• Created a Unified Strategy for College and
Career Readiness to reduce college
remediation and to increase the college
completion rates by 2014
Enacted
2009

5. Unbridled Learning
• To align revised K-12 academic standards
with college readiness requirements and
expectations and promote degree
completion:
• Accelerated Learning Opportunities
• Secondary Intervention Programs
• College and Career Readiness Advising
• Postsecondary College Persistence and
Degree Completion
4 Key
Strategies

6. K-12 Common Core Standards
• Kentucky was the first state to adopt the Common
Core Standards (Feb. 2010):
• To be known as the Kentucky Core Academic
Standards for English/Language Arts (ELA) and
Mathematics
• Provides grade by grade level content standards
linked to college and career readiness standards
• Integrate final standards into agency work and
processes to ensure that all Kentucky students
experience a successful and productive future
KY 1st to
Adopt
Early
2010

7. Higher Ed Strategic Agenda
• College Readiness – increase a number of
Kentuckians college-ready and entering
postsecondary education and college-ready GED
graduates, and increase effectiveness of K-12
teachers and school leaders
• Student Success – increase high-quality degree
production at all levels, close achievement gaps,
decrease financial barriers to college access &
completion
• Research, Economic & Community Development
• Efficiency & Innovation
2011-15

8. Core Services = Cost-Sharing
• Licensed content from commercial providers:
• EBSCO, APA PsycINFO, ProQuest, OCLC, Grolier
• Kentucky Digital Library (UK)
• EBSCO Discovery Service
• KYVL Proxy & Webhosting (@ UK)
• Boopsie Mobile Apps (planning stage)
*(As defined by the KYVL Funding Workgroup and
approved by the Leadership Team.)
Core Services
&
Resources*
• LibGuides (SpringShare)
• EZProxy (OCLC)
• Voyager Hosting (@ Ex Libris)
• Courier Service (Professional Business Courier)
• KY Learning Depot (EQUELLA)
Non-Core
& Other
Services

9. Database Access for Everyone
• Over 1.8 million people served annually
• Over 300 cost-sharing member organizations, institutions,
districts, etc.
• 1,500 designated locations
• All public postsecondary, all public libraries, all AIKCU,
some independent K12 and other postsec plus hospitals
• Average return of $10:$1 contributed
• $1.3 million from CPE & KDLA to KYVL
• 46.4 million searches
• Usage doubled since FY2008-09
• 11 million downloads
2012-13

10. The DB List – Fee & Free
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
AGRICOLA (EBSCO)
Alt-Press Watch (ProQuest)
Amazing Animals of the World (Grolier)
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Career + Technical Education (ProQuest)
CINAHL (EBSCO)
CINAHL w/Fulltext (EBSCO)
Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO)
EBSCO Animals (EBSCO)
Encyclopedia Americana (Grolier)
ERIC (EBSCO)
Footnote History and Genealogy Archives (EBSCO)
Funk Wagnalls Encycl. (EBSCO)
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (Grolier)
Grolier Adult Patrons (Grolier)
Grolier Librarians/Educations (Grolier)
Health Source Consumer (EBSCO)
Lexi-PAL Drug Guide (EBSCO)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts - LISTA
(EBSCO)
MAS (Magazine Article Summaries) Ultra School Ed (EBSCO)
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
Middle Search Plus (EBSCO)
New Book of Knowledge (Grolier)
Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
NoveList (EBSCO)
OCLC FirstSearch (OCLC)
Primary Search (EBSCO)
Psychology + Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO)
PsycINFO (EBSCO)
Regional Business News (EBSCO)
Small Business Reference Center (EBSCO)
Sociological Collection (EBSCO)
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) (EBSCO)
TOPICsearch (EBSCO)
WorldCat (OCLC)

11. The DB’s – User Specific Interfaces
Kids Search interface (EBSCO)
Student Research Center interface (EBSCO)
Searchasaurus interface (EBSCO)
EBSCOhost Deutsch (EBSCO)
EBSCOhost Espanol (EBSCO)
EBSCOhost French (EBSCO)
Grolier KIDS (Grolier)
Grolier PASSPORT (Grolier)
Grolier Elementary (Grolier)
Grolier Middle (Grolier)
Grolier High (Grolier)
Grolier PASSPORT (Grolier)

12. Courier Transport – Sharing Collections
• 442 pickups each week
• 176 participating universities, colleges, public libraries,
community colleges, KDLA, some AIKCU
• All costs paid by KYVL = no charge to public institutions or
public libraries, private colleges charged for cost-recovery
• $1 average cost per item transported, regardless of size or
weight
• Postsecondary usage began to double in FY 2008-09
• 50% growth in usage by KDLA and public libraries, last 5
years
2012-13

13. Kentucky Digital Library
• Added 82,500 digital objects in 2012 alone.
• Totals:
• Newspaper (800,000 pages)
• Books (300,000 pages)
• Finding Aids (5,000)
• Photographs (110,000)
• Archival folder contents (22,000)
• Oral Histories (800)
• Maps (4,700)
• Other paginated publications (200,000)
Content
Usage
Fiscal Year Site Visits Pages Viewed
2011-12 598,462 13,604,460
2012-13 585,279 12,801,850
2013-14 (2 mos.) 551,492 5,923,525

14. More about KDL
• Over $1.5 million cultivated in grant funding for multiple
projects:
• National Historical Publications & Records Commission
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Archives and Records Administration
• The Keeneland Association
• 1 of 6 initial sites chosen to develop the National Digital
Newspaper Program with the Library of Congress & NEH
(multiple phases since 2005-06)
External
Grant
Funding
• 2012 Oct – KDL is 1 of 7 chosen “service hub” pilot sites
• Create a sustainable national digital library system
• Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon,
South Carolina, and Utah
Digital Public
Library of
America
http://dp.la

15. KY Learning Depot
• 80K eTextbooks, Course Modules and Learning Objects
• KY-authored textbooks, ex: KYOTE Transition to College
Math Text from NKU faculty
• KY Humanities Council pilot
• NROC contract shared with KDE & KCTCS
• Single sign-on to Blackboard, Moodle, etc.
Kentucky
Learning
Depot
• OrangeGrove & NCLOR
• Connexions, PHeT, Smithsonian, MIT OpenCourseware,
NASA at 50, Khan Academy, BiosciEdnet, Assoc. for
Middle Level Education, Dragonfly TV, Harvard-
Smithsonian Digital Video Library & MORE
• Learning Registry (future)
Other Content
& Connections

16. About the Funding
• EBSCO, APA PsycINFO, ProQuest, OCLC, Grolier
• Kentucky Digital Library (UK)
• EBSCO Discovery Service
• KYVL Proxy & Webhosting (@ UK)
Total Core Costs: $2,249,171 *(As defined by the
KYVL Funding Workgroup and approved by the
Leadership Team.)
2013-14
Costs for
Core Services
&
Resources*
• LibGuides (SpringShare)
• EZProxy (OCLC)
• Voyager Hosting (@ Ex Libris)
• Courier Service (PBC)
Total Non-Core: $363,977
Non-Core
& Other
Services

17. Member & Partner Cost-Sharing
• Member “fees” determined by the Funding WG
• No fee changes for over 10 years: 1999-2010
• 2010 was 1st year of 2013-16 Strategic Plan
• Same year KDE funding was cut for Public K12 access
• Funding WG Estimate for Core Costs: $2.4 Million
• Total KYVL Commitments: $2.6 Million
• Estimated Member Assessment: $1.3 Million
• LSTA Funds: $200,000
• CPE Estimated Funds: $1.1 Million [does not include
personnel, facilities, etc.]
• *Note: Depot software license & hosting paid by
Technology Trust Fund
2013-14

18. What is Gained?
• 244 Million+ Total Searches by all KYVL members in the
article, citation and content databases
• $19M Cost Avoidance by members compared to retail cost
in FY2012-13
• $15 Million Saved in Library Management Costs by
participating members
• 1.9M Items Transported, such as lab kits, multimedia and
book discussion kits
• $7.5M Saved in Shipping Costs by participating
universities, colleges and public libraries
Since
1999:

19. Thank you!
Betsy Hughes, Electronic Resources Librarian,
betsy.hughes@ky.gov
Enid Wohlstein, Director, enid.wohlstein@ky.gov