Library Lingo
Verifiable Valencia Facts
Winter Park Wonders
Valencia Facts, part deux
Miscellaneous
100
The most visitors to the Winter Park campus library website come on this day of the week.
What is Monday?
100
Our 2009/2010 unduplicated Credit-seeking student enrollment (to the nearest thousand)
What is 55,000 students? (Exact number is 55,304)
100
In Fall 2001, only 127 of these were offered; however in Fall 2009, 195 were offered, representing a 54% increase from 2001.
What are number of classes offered?
100
It's the largest of the Valencia campuses, with 816,139 sq ft of building space.
What is West Campus?
100
This is Valencia's mascot!
What is a Matador?
200
Nearly three-quarters of students use this resource more than the library.
What is the internet?
200
This is the number represents the number of Valencia Library Holding (volumes only) reported for 2008 (to the nearest 10,000).
What is 190,000? (Exact number 186,806)
200
Approximately 21 per class in 2001 and approximately 26 per class in 2009.
What is average class size?
200
"Radiologic and Imaging Sciences" AND "Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology".
What are the new baccalaureate degrees that Valencia will offer?
200
This generation has a preference for non-stop, digital communication.
What is Generation Y, the Nintendo Generation, Echo Boomers or Millennials.
300
In 2007, only 35 of these were conducted, compared to 2010, when over 100 were conducted.
What is Library Instruction?
300
Valencia's ranking among the nation's 2-year institutions in number of Associate degrees awarded (2008-2009 academic year).
What is 1st?
300
In Fall 2010, there were approximately 1,610 enrollments in this type of course (at the Winter Park Campus)
What is online courses?
300
The year that Valencia changed it's name from Valencia Junior College to Valencia Community College.
What is 1971?
300
Two years ago, this technology didn’t exist. Now 35% of U.S. adults have them on their phone.
What are apps?
400
This new way to ask a question is being implemented by Ask-A-Librarian.
What is texting (text message)?
400
This is the approximate percentage of those AA graduates who transferred to the state university system and continued their studies at UCF.
What is 87%? (86.6% exactly)
400
Since 2005, there has been a 530% increase in this type of class.
What is an online course?
400
In 1990, this director called Valencia's film program "one of the best in the nation."
Who is Steven Spielberg?
400
Today’s student averages 50 of these per day.
What is a text message?
500
Approximately this many more students used the library computers in December 2009 as compared to December 1998.
What is 1000?
500
A total of 4,414 of these were granted in 2001-2002, compared to 9,761 in 2009-2010.
What are degrees awarded?
500
In 2001, there were only 2 of these (representing only 19 student enrollments) and by Fall 2009, we offered 62 of these (representing 1,513 student enrollments)
What are online classes?
500
Think, Value, Communicate, Act.
What are the four core competencies?
500
Students use this method 65% of the time to communicate an absence to an instructor.
What is e-mail?