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	<description>The latest news and alerts from Falvey Memorial Library</description>
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		<title>Noteworthy: Sue Ottignon, Merrill Stein and Alice Bampton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Librarians Susan Ottignon and Merrill Stein participated in the 38th annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, &#8220;Asia Beyond Borders,&#8221; held at Villanova University Oct. 30 - Nov. 1.
Susan Ottignon, a research support librarian and a member of the languages and literatures library liaison team, was a co-presenter, with Masako Hamada, Ph.D., [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.library.villanova.edu/blog/2009/11/20/noteworthy/</link>
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		<title>Feedback Friday: Are games needed at the library?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A professor recently asked the library to place her chess set on reserve so that she and her students could use it while in the library. After processing her request, we pondered the need for more board games at the library. We&#8217;ve decided to ask you, our patrons. Taking a break from studying or computing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.library.villanova.edu/blog/2009/11/20/feedback-friday-are-games-needed-at-the-library/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Window Shopping&#8221;: Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Features Stark Display</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unlike Falvey&#8217;s typically colorful first floor window displays, this month&#8217;s display has a somber tone, appropriate to its subject matter, Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week (HHAW). The display was designed and mounted by Victoria Stork and Alyson Malick, two Villanova seniors, who spent very little money, using recycled materials whenever possible.
HHAW was founded in 1975 by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.library.villanova.edu/blog/2009/11/18/window-shopping-hunger-and-homelessness-awareness-features-stark-display/</link>
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		<title>Introducing Our Student Workers: Jeffrey Eisenberg and Clare Oven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Falvey Memorial Library employs dedicated and hardworking students to provide assistance and direction to its patrons. Among these students are seniors Jeffrey Eisenberg and Clare Oven who assist the Access Services staff by helping patrons, by checking in/out books, videos and laptop computers and by assigning study rooms. Both students also shelve books: Clare on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.library.villanova.edu/blog/2009/11/17/celebrating-our-student-workers-jeffrey-eisenberg-and-clare-oven/</link>
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		<title>Celebrating Native American Heritage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul C. Rosier, Ph.D., an associate professor in history, will discuss his book, Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century, to commemorate Native American Heritage Month on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 4:30 p.m. in Falvey Memorial Library’s first floor lounge.
Native American Heritage Month celebrates both the distinctive elements of Native [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.library.villanova.edu/blog/2009/11/16/celebrating-native-american-heritage/</link>
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		<title>Better by the Numbers - What Statistics Say About Our Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you interested in what numbers can tell us? Here at the library we use statistics to help us make decisions about what our patrons want to read or what services they find most useful. For instance, after installing a Self-Check-Out station near the first floor elevator, we saw that about 10% of our total [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.library.villanova.edu/blog/2009/11/12/service-by-the-numbers/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Weight is Over,&#8221; a New Documentary by Leonard Shyles, Ph.D.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Shyles, an associate professor in the communication department,  shared his ideas on the impact of the American diet on individual health and on the soaring cost of health care. A presentation of the documentary and discussion took place on Tuesday, Nov. 10 in Falvey Memorial Library’s first floor lounge.
His latest video, &#8220;The Weight is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.library.villanova.edu/blog/2009/11/09/the-weight-is-over-a-new-documentary-by-leonard-shyles-phd/</link>
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		<title>General Biology: Some Research Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Struggling with a research project in Biology?
The General Biology Research Guide contains links to a huge variety of biology-related databases as well as online reference books and other materials.
The Guide now also contains video tutorials for PubMed and Biological Abstracts.
There are also many other Research Guides in Biology including Human Anatomy and Graduate Biology pages.
See [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.library.villanova.edu/blog/2009/11/08/general-biology-some-research-tips/</link>
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		<title>Graphic Novels &#8212; Literature? Glorified Comic Books? Join the Debate on Nov. 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comics go to college? What are graphic novels and why have they appeared on this university campus?
Join us on Wednesday, Nov. 11, as an award-winning comics writer, a college professor who teaches graphic novels, a writer-illustrator, and a grad student / comic book writer talk about the world of graphic novels. For those interested in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.library.villanova.edu/blog/2009/11/03/can-comics-be-literature-join-the-debate-on-nov-11/</link>
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		<title>Stephen Spatz presents at Catholic research group&#8217;s meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Spatz, assistant Outreach and Support librarian, recently attended the Catholic Research Resources Alliance annual meeting at Loyola University, Chicago. While there, Stephen presented information on VuFind and Falvey Memorial Library&#8217;s Digital Library.
He demonstrated what Falvey&#8217;s VuFind open source software can do for the Catholic Portal, an internet search engine designed by the CRRA. The portal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.library.villanova.edu/blog/2009/11/03/stephen-spatz-presents-at-catholic-research-groups-meeting/</link>
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