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<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/news/2013/05/23/a-ceremony-a-symposium-and-a-reception-falvey-earns-national-award/' title='Librarians and staff, Villanova University faculty and the University president himself—the Rev. Peter M. Donohue, OSA, PhD, ’75 LAS—assembled in the library’s Speakers’ Corner on May 14 for the 9 a.m. presentation of the 2013 Association of College &amp; Research Libraries (ACRL) Award for Excellence to Falvey Memorial Library. The award ceremony kicked off a [...]'>A Ceremony, a Symposium and a Reception: Falvey Earns National Award</a> <span class="rss-date">May 23, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/news/2013/05/16/and-the-winner-of-author-madness-tournament-is/' title='The lights were low in Falvey Memorial Library as Mark Twain and William Shakespeare, two literary titans, two gentlemen of consummate wit and profound insight, entered the building for the final match in the library Author Madness tournament. But in the words of another literary master (whoever wrote Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome) “two men [...]'>And the Winner of Author Madness Tournament is…</a> <span class="rss-date">May 16, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/news/2013/05/15/david-uspals-innovative-technology-garners-wpi-award/' title='When University Staff Council members arrived at the Library to present David Uspal, senior web specialist for Library Services and Scholarly Applications, with a Work Process Improvement (WPI) award, Uspal’s colleagues may have wondered whether it was for his wheelchair-accessible touchscreen near the library’s entrance or perhaps his imaginative campus map, featured on that same [...]'>David Uspal’s Innovative Technology Garners WPI Award</a> <span class="rss-date">May 15, 2013</span></li>
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<strong><a title="Blue Electrode" href="http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary" target="_self">Blue Electrode</a></strong><br />
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<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2013/05/19/content-roundup-third-week-may-2013/' title='This week sees a significant number of new and exciting dime novel titles to read including a number of Nickle Weeklies, several new story papers, a non-fiction stage magic titles, and WWII vintage Villanova theses. Work also continues on the large Elizabeth Sarah Kite personal paper collection. As well as reading please feel free to [...]'>Content Roundup – Third Week – May 2013</a> <span class="rss-date">May 19, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2013/05/18/ebook-available-the-brighton-boys-in-the-trenches/' title='The latest of our proofreading projects to be completed is The Brighton Boys in the Trenches. The Brighton Boys series is something that may be a bit hard for the modern reader to imagine: books for young boys glorifying the act of going to war, written during an ongoing conflict. Using the same basic hardcover [...]'>eBook available: The Brighton Boys in the Trenches</a> <span class="rss-date">May 19, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitallibrary/2013/05/10/content-roundup-second-week-may-2013/' title='This week sees a host of new Story Paper newspaper issues &#8211; including an issue with a Nellie Bly story from the 1800s. Follow along with the adventures &#8211; in Spanish of the Black Pirate! In addition to these compelling stories, two popular non-fiction titles &#8211; one on stage magic and the other on social [...]'>Content Roundup – Second week – May 2013</a> <span class="rss-date">May 10, 2013</span></li>
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<strong><a title="Business Reference" href="http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business" target="_self">Business Reference</a></strong><br />
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<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2013/04/10/datamonitor-rebranded-marketline/' title='Datamonitor company profiles have been rebranded as MarketLine. Access is available on the EBSCOhot platform. Industry reports available via the ReferenceUSA Onesource platform have also been rebranded as MarketLine, but remain listed on the platform as Datamonitor. Confusing to be sure! Just think Datamonitor=MarketLine.'>Datamonitor Rebranded MarketLine</a> <span class="rss-date">April 10, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2013/01/11/business-books-go-mobile/' title='Ever wish you had mobile access to the quality business books your professors expect you to  use?  There&#8217;s an app for that (and I&#8217;m not thinking SparkNotes, besides it only covers literature!).  Ebrary, one of Falvey Memorial Library&#8217;s  ebook platforms, released a mobile app for iPhone/iPad/iPod and Android.  To get it, search the App Store [...]'>Business Books Go Mobile</a> <span class="rss-date">January 11, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2012/12/03/esri-business-analyst-online/' title='The Library is making Esri Business Analyst Online (BAO) available to the entire campus.  Esri is the market leader in ArcGIS software for mapping data. Esri BAO is a web based product designed for siting optimization and comparisons.  With it,  one can analyze the demographic characteristics and market potential of selected locations or geographies.  The [...]'>ESRI Business Analyst Online</a> <span class="rss-date">December 3, 2012</span></li>
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<strong><a title="Golden Electrode: the Aurelius Digital Humanities Initiative Blog" href="http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitalhumanities">Golden Electrode: the Aurelius Digital Humanities Initiative Blog</a></strong><br />
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<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitalhumanities/2013/05/07/mapping-a-dh-future-brief-notes-from-the-aurelius-launch-party/' title='Last Tuesday, April 30, was the formal launch party for the Aurelius Digital Humanities Initiative. We had a &#8220;soft launch&#8221; in the fall to let people know Aurelius existed, but Tuesday&#8217;s event was a glimpse into two of the projects that we are currently working on. (Both of these projects happen to be mapping projects, [...]'>Mapping a DH Future: Brief notes from the Aurelius launch party</a> <span class="rss-date">May 7, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitalhumanities/2013/04/25/save-the-date-aurelius-launch-on-april-30/' title='The Library will be celebrating the formal inauguration of Aurelius with a launch party scheduled for Tuesday, April 30 at 1:00pm in Room 205 in the second floor Learning Commons of the Library. The event will feature a discussion of the definition of &#8220;digital humanities&#8221; and how Aurelius will support this emerging trend in scholarly [...]'>Save the date: Aurelius launch on April 30</a> <span class="rss-date">April 25, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/digitalhumanities/2013/02/15/meet-conor-hafertepe-spring-2013-digital-humanities-intern/' title='A few weeks ago, Conor Hafertepe became our first Digital Humanities Intern. Conor is from Media, PA, and he is currently a senior at Temple University, where he is majoring in Film &amp; Media Arts. After graduating in May, he plans to teach English abroad for the next year or two, before applying to graduate [...]'>Meet Conor Hafertepe, Spring 2013 Digital Humanities Intern</a> <span class="rss-date">February 15, 2013</span></li>
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<strong><a title="History and Sociology" href="http://blog.library.villanova.edu/history-sociology" target="_self">History and Sociology</a></strong><br />
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<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/history-sociology/2013/05/23/the-washington-post-archive-1877-1996/' title='By Merrill Stein We are excited to announce the addition of Washington Post Historical to our databases. The archive, from the ProQuest organization, offers full-text searching of every available issue of the Washington Post and Washington Post/Times-Herald, from 1877 to 1996 with digital page and image reproductions. The historical coverage will expand annually, by one [...]'>The Washington Post Archive, 1877-1996</a> <span class="rss-date">May 23, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/history-sociology/2013/04/02/news-and-updates-on-medieval-history-sources/' title='Manchester Medieval Sources Online Manchester University Press has recently expanded its well-received digital collection of medieval sources to twenty-four titles and updated its online platform. The Manchester Medieval Sources series (MMS) makes primary sources from the Middle Ages accessible to students through carefully translated and annotated editions. Among the thirteen new titles are collections of [...]'>Medieval History Resources: News &amp; Updates</a> <span class="rss-date">April 3, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/history-sociology/2013/02/28/worldcat-for-beginners-how-to-search-the-global-library/' title='If I had to make a list of the five most important library research tools for historians, I would put WorldCat at the top of the list without a moment’s hesitation. While in the past, scholars were limited to local libraries, print bibliographies and the occasional visit to other libraries, today WorldCat provides them a [...]'>WorldCat for Beginners: How to Search the Global Library</a> <span class="rss-date">February 28, 2013</span></li>
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<strong><a title="Nursing" href="http://blog.library.villanova.edu/nursing" target="_self">Nursing</a></strong><br />
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<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/nursing/2013/04/05/whats-cooki-try-a-healthy-recipe/' title='Natural Standard, our new integrative therapies database, now has an extensive recipe section. In addition to regular exercise, well-balanced meals and sensible portions are important to overall health. The Natural Standard Recipe Database, launched in May 2012, features a wide range of healthy recipes in the following categories: Beans &amp; Legumes, Dairy, Eggs, Fruit, Meat, [...]'>What’s cookin’?  Try a healthy recipe from Natural Standard</a> <span class="rss-date">April 5, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/nursing/2013/03/14/natural-standard-your-source-for-information-on-complementary-therapies/' title='  Collect valuable data on natural and complementary therapies by searching them in our newest data base Natural Standard. You can begin by searching a medical condition, such as high cholesterol. The article will list known integrative therapies and indicate the level of evidence  of their efficacy. Click the name of a substance for more [...]'>Natural Standard: Your Source for Information on Complementary Therapies</a> <span class="rss-date">March 14, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/nursing/2012/11/02/dr-elizabeth-dowdell-to-speak-on-child/' title='Please join us on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 1:00 p.m. in Falvey Memorial Library’s Speakers’ Corner (1st floor), as Elizabeth Burgess Dowdell, PhD, RN, FAAN, presents “A Multi-prong Approach to Child Internet Safety.” Dr. Dowdell will share key findings of of her grant-supported research involving middle school, high school and college students, as well as [...]'>Dr. Elizabeth Dowdell to Speak at Falvey on Child Internet Safety</a> <span class="rss-date">November 2, 2012</span></li>
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<strong><a title="Library Technology Development" href="http://blog.library.villanova.edu/libtech">Library Technology Development</a></strong><br />
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<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/libtech/2013/01/29/a-more-complex-vufind-2-unit-test/' title='Okay, much sooner than expected, I found a good candidate for some more complex unit testing: the VuFind\Cart object that we mocked in the previous post. Preparing for Testing As I mentioned in the previous post, sometimes a bit of work needs to be done before classes can be easily tested. In the case of [...]'>A More Complex VuFind 2 Unit Test</a> <span class="rss-date">January 29, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/libtech/2013/01/29/a-simple-vufind-2-unit-test/' title='I have said on several occasions that test-writing might eventually become a good way for new developers to contribute to the VuFind project. By increasing our test coverage (and thus future code stability), new tests are a valuable contribution to the software&#8230; and the act of studying all the code paths in order to write [...]'>A Simple VuFind 2 Unit Test</a> <span class="rss-date">January 29, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/libtech/2013/01/24/vufind-zend-framework-2-and-flash-messages/' title='One minor weakness of VuFind 1.x is that it doesn&#8217;t always provide good feedback for user actions.  One of the advantages to switching to a standard framework is that we can leverage an existing &#8220;flash message&#8221; mechanism to display messages to users in a consistent way.  Zend Framework 2 includes a simple FlashMessenger helper, but [...]'>VuFind, Zend Framework 2, and Flash Messages</a> <span class="rss-date">January 24, 2013</span></li>
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<strong><a title="Philosophy" href="http://blog.library.villanova.edu/philosophy">Philosophy</a></strong><br />
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<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/philosophy/2013/05/01/enrique-dussel-at-drexel/' title='Drexel University Comparative Political Theory Colloquium presents Enrique Dussel   Professor of Philosophy at the UAM-Iztapalapa and the UNAM Interim Rector of the UACM in Mexico City &#8220;Ethics, Political Economy, and Liberation&#8221; Dussel will be speaking on his new book 16 Theses on Political Economy  and his recently translated Ethics (Duke, 2013).   Monday, May 6th at [...]'>Enrique Dussel at Drexel</a> <span class="rss-date">May 1, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/philosophy/2013/04/22/cfp-connecting-narrative-worlds-istanbul-6-9-november-2013/' title='Call for Papers 6th International Conference for Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) “Connecting Narrative Worlds” Istanbul, 6-9 November 2013 Bahçeşehir University ICIDS is the premier international conference on research and practice covering interactive narrative experiences such as video game narratives, interactive storytelling, interactive drama, and interactive installation art concerned with storytelling. Bringing together researchers, practitioners and theorists [...]'>CFP “Connecting Narrative Worlds,” Istanbul, 6-9 November 2013</a> <span class="rss-date">April 22, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/philosophy/2013/04/10/new-philosophy-books-3/' title='A few more of the latest: A Companion to Meister Eckhart edited by Jeremiah M. Hackett (Brill) From the publisher: This book meets an obvious need in English language studies on Meister Eckhart. It is the first handbook on Eckhart for graduate and undergraduate students. It is divided into three parts. Part one deals with [...]'>New Philosophy Books</a> <span class="rss-date">April 10, 2013</span></li>
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<strong><a title="Sociology" href="http://blog.library.villanova.edu/communication">Sociology</a></strong><br />
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<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/social-sciences/2013/05/23/criminology-blogs-to-follow/' title='Blogs are a popular outlet for timely and dynamic academic thought, as well as an avenue for activism and focused discussion. Below are some notable blogs in the areas of criminology and criminal justice, with descriptions from the sites themselves. Don&#8217;t see your favorite blog? Tell us about it in the comments! Public Criminology from The [...]'>Criminology Blogs to Follow</a> <span class="rss-date">May 23, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/social-sciences/2013/05/16/teaching-and-learning-strategies-continued/' title='This post is for all of you who would like to capitalize on the momentum of yesterday&#8217;s exciting Teaching and Learning Strategies presentations. Did you know that Falvey offers many discipline-specific teaching and learning journals? Check out highlights from some of these journals below. College Teaching Publishes peer-reviewed articles on how instructors across all academic [...]'>Teaching and Learning Strategies Continued</a> <span class="rss-date">May 16, 2013</span></li>
<li><a class='post' href='http://blog.library.villanova.edu/social-sciences/2013/04/16/new-books-in-communication-6/' title='Check out all the latest arrivals in Communication. 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook (online) edited by William F. Eadie Sage Publications 2009 An Overture to Philosophy of Communication: The Carrier of Meaning Ronald C. Arnett &amp; Annette M. Holba Peeter Lang 2012 - Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media edited by [...]'>New Books in Communication!</a> <span class="rss-date">April 16, 2013</span></li>
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