http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary Sparking between Paper and Silicon ~ Digital Library@Villanova University Fri, 16 May 2008 23:07:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Villanova University, by virtue of its Augustinian heritage, has benefited from the donation of many traces and reminders of the early Catholica Church in America. These items, once in common circulation, have become rare or have even disappeared in other institutions. Fragile pamphlet literature is especially vulnerable to ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2008/05/16/rare-catholic-pamphlets/ Today Friday April 25th 2008, the 4,000th item was added to the Digital Library. From the Joseph McGarrity Papers Collection, it is a sketchbook of pencil drawings done by Joseph McGarrity. The drawings include Mcgarrity family members, friends and McGarrity himself. The count of items in the entire ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2008/04/25/digital-library-adds-4000th-item/ We are happy to have the Digital Library featured as a display on the first floor of Falvey Memorial Library throughout the month of April. The display features a video showcasing works featured in the Digital Library. If you aren't able to see it in person, here is a preview ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2008/04/15/digital-library-on-display/ After two years of work our first large personal paper collection has been fully digitized and described. A comprehensive digital finding aid is in the final development stages and should be available for use by the end of March. While the digitization and description have been completed, ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2008/03/19/sherman-thackara-collection-digitization-completed/ The latest issue of Compass has a Blue Electrode article written by our own Darren Poley. Check out the piece at: http://newsletter.library.villanova.edu/231 Share This http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2008/02/22/compass-blue-electrode-article-the-institutional-repository-rethought-community-bibliography-debuts/ Special Collections at Villanova University holds a number of Irish (Irish Gaelic) Manuscripts. The recent book by William Mahon, titled Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in Villanova University, Pennsylvania , details these titles with great care and has called greater attention to the source documents. At the request ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2008/01/11/irish-manuscript-digitized/ Today Friday the 16th 2007, the 2,500th item was added to the Digital Library. From the Sherman-Thackara Collection, it is a letter written from Ellie Sherman to her mother Ellen Ewing Sherman in 1885. The count of items in the entire Digital Library is updated as each item ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2007/11/16/digital-library-adds-2500th-item-to-collection/ The latest issue of Compass has a Blue Electrode article written by our own Teri Ann Incrovato. Check out the piece at: http://newsletter.library.villanova.edu/220Share This http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2007/11/16/compass-blue-electrode-the-digital-library-villanova-university-and-wikipedia/ The primary Digital Library scanning facility has moved from the Rare Book Room located on the 2nd floor of Falvey Memorial Library to the Slide Library located on the same floor. This location will serve as the permanent home to the Indus Planetary scanner and the site of ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2007/11/06/digital-library-shifts-scanning-to-new-location/ Ephemera The nature of ephemera is that it is often not preserved because it is seen as replaceable. Ephemera include a large variety of material types often representing physical manifestations of communications of a commercial speech or other non-privileged physical formats. Ephemera items include: telegrams, receipts, tickets, calling cards, programs, ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2007/10/31/ephemera-telegrams/