Library News

Why are we publishing a story about Villanova’s librarians now? It is part of the University’s history, of course, but it seems especially appropriate to look back at this time because Falvey Memorial Library is undergoing another leadership transition. Joseph P. (Joe) Lucia, who has been the University Librarian and Director of Falvey Memorial Library since 2002 will be leaving July 1 to become the dean of university libraries at Temple University. Darren G. Poley, Outreach librarian, will be the interim Library Director.

Rev. Thomas C. Middleton, OSA (1842 – 1923)
Although Villanova College was founded in 1842 and classes began in 1843, Villanova did not have a librarian until the Rev. Thomas C. Middleton, OSA, arrived on campus in 1865. By that time, the College had already had six presidents. There was, however, a college library with a reading room as early as the 1840s; it distributed books on Tuesdays and Sundays and “Members” who paid 12 ½ cents per month were allowed to check out two books.
Father Middleton was not trained as a librarian, but he loved books and he was interested in collecting and preserving them. These characteristics qualified him for the position of college librarian. Father Middleton (1842 – 1923) served as librarian from 1865 until 1923 and he was also the tenth president of Villanova from 1876 until 1876. He died November 19, 1923, and is buried in the Augustinian Cemetery on campus. Father Middleton served 58 years as the College librarian and he is the only librarian to become a president of Villanova. Middleton Hall is named in his honor.
In July 1884 Father Middleton was one of the founders of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia (ACHS). He was its first president (1884 – 1890). The ACHS was founded to “collect, research, record and maintain a history of Catholic contributions to our culture.” http://www.amchs.org/ It is the oldest Catholic historical association in the United States and Villanova’s connection with the ACHS continues into the present.
On October 17, 2008, Library Director Joe Lucia; Louis N. Ferrero, president of the ACHS; and the Rev. Msgr. James P. McCoy, executive director of ACHS, signed an agreement to digitize numerous items from the ACHS collections: http://newsletter.library.villanova.edu/214 The digitization project began with early editions of American Catholic Studies, the oldest Catholic scholarly journal, continuously published since 1887. The ongoing results of this project can be seen in the Digital Library at http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:208284.

Rev. Francis E. Tourscher, OSA (1870 – 1939)
The second Villanova College librarian, the Rev. Francis E. Tourscher (1870 – 1939), OSA, took office after Father Middleton died in 1923. Father Tourscher arrived at Villanova in September 1892 and remained here for the rest of his life. He taught various subjects – theology, scripture, church history, homiletics, patrology and Latin before becoming the Villanova College librarian. In 1924 the library was housed on the second floor east wing of Austin Hall and, under Father Tourscher’s supervision, the collections expanded rapidly. By 1937 the library contained over 35,000 books and subscribed to 150 journals. (Today Falvey has over 551,000 books in its main stacks and subscribes to 3,956 print journals.) Father Tourscher reorganized the library collection, installed a card catalogue and had the books catalogued using the Library of Congress (LOC) system. Falvey’s books and periodicals are still catalogued with the LOC system. Father Tourscher, a scholar, poet, translator and historian, served as secretary and as archivist of the Province of St. Thomas of Villanova. He was the secretary of the Board of Trustees of Villanova College when he died January 30, 1939, having spent sixteen years as the college librarian. Read more about Father Tourscher here: http://newsletter.library.villanova.edu/118

Rev. Daniel P. Falvey, OSA (1906 – 1962)
The Rev. Daniel P. Falvey (1906 – 1962) followed Father Tourscher as college librarian His name is familiar to Villanova students; Falvey Memorial Library is named in his honor. In 1931 Father Falvey graduated from Villanova College with a bachelor of arts degree; he had joined the Order of St. Augustine in 1928 and was ordained in Washington, D.C., in 1934. The following year he became the assistant librarian at Villanova. After earning a bachelor of science degree in library science from George Washington University, Father Falvey attended Columbia University where he received a master’s degree in library science in 1940. He became the college librarian in 1940, Villanova’s first library director with a degree in library science.
During Father Falvey’s twenty two years tenure, Villanova built a library, the first time there was a building erected for this purpose on campus. Father Falvey organized the Friends of Villanova Library to raise funds for the new library; he and the Friends raised nearly a million dollars. The groundbreaking was celebrated on January 23, 1947, and the building was dedicated on April 22, 1949. This is the present day Falvey Hall, also known as Old Falvey and Falvey West. Father Falvey also saw Villanova College become a university when the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County issued the decree on November 18, 1953, creating Villanova University. In 1968 the newly constructed Falvey Memorial Library was named in his honor.

Rev. Louis A. Rongione (1912 – 1980)
The next librarian, the Rev. Louis A. Rongione (1912 – 1980), OSA, served Villanova’s library for eighteen years, from1962 until 1980. Born in Italy, Father Rongione came to the United States with his family and lived in Philadelphia where he studied at St. Rita parish school. In 1927 he became a postulant at Augustinian Academy, Staten Island. He graduated from Villanova College with a bachelor of arts degree in 1936. He studied theology at Augustinian College for four years and earned a master of arts degree in education from Catholic University, Washington, D.C., in 1940. He was ordained in 1939 and held various teaching positions in Chicago and Staten Island until he was appointed dean of the evening division of Villanova College in 1950. In October 1952 he became the librarian at St. Monica, Rome, and in 1953 he returned to Villanova as a professor. When Father Falvey died in 1962, Father Rongione became the Villanova University librarian and chairman of the library science department. A prolific author, he wrote books of homilies, articles on library science, articles on religious education and The Liberty Bell’s Sister, a book about the “Sister Bell,” which has a history closely allied to the Augustinians of Philadelphia and to Villanova.

Rev. Harry Cassel, OSA (1924 – 2011)
Father Rongione’s successor, the Rev. Harry Cassel (1924 – 2011), OSA, served as the University Librarian 1980 – 1981. Born in Norristown, Pa., he attended local parochial schools and entered the Order of St. Augustine as a postulant in 1942. He graduated from Villanova College with a bacholor’s degree in 1947, attended the Augustinian College where he studied theology and in 1951 he received his master’s degree in English from the Catholic University of America. He was ordained in 1950. After serving assignments at Malvern Preparatory School, Archbishop Prendergast High School, Monsignor Bonner High School, and St. Augustine Retreat House, in 1968 Father Cassel was elected as a Definitor of the Province and came to Villanova. He was the Province Archivist from 1979 – 1981 and University Librarian 1980 – 1981. Father Cassel served in various positions until he retired to the St. Thomas of Villanova Monastery in 2005. He died in 2011.

Stay tuned for more fascinating history on the legacies of Villanova’s librarians, including the namesake of the Griffin instruction room, and the “reluctant” three-time director. Coming later this week!

Alice Bampton is an digital image specialist and senior writer on the Communication and Publications Team.

Photographs courtesy of Villanova University Archives.

For Mother’s Day, this blog featured an article about memorable literary mothers. Now it’s the fathers’ turn. From Bob Cratchit in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, literary fathers have made an impression on and even influenced us.

The King in Shakespeare’s King Lear easily springs to mind. Lear appears to have treated Goneril, Regan and Cordelia more like subjects than daughters. The older two’s responses to their father-king seem to reinforce this notion. King Lear also features the Earl of Gloucester, whose extraordinary physical suffering is eclipsed by his psycho- logical suffering when his relationships with sons Edgar and Edmund undergo crises.

Ancient mythology provides such examples as Odysseus of Homer’s The Odyssey, whose ten-year trek compels his son, Telemachus, to embark on his own journey: a father quest. Also Daedalus, the master craftsman from Greek mythology is famous for fashioning wings so that he and his son, Icarus, could escape their imprisonment.

The father is not physically present in some stories but still influences his family, as with Big Walter Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Mr. Wingfield in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. Some stories, readers may believe, might be happier if the father were not present: Dwight, for instance, the abusive stepfather in Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life.

In the Bible, Jacob, father of twelve sons and one daughter, showed such partiality to his eleventh son, Joseph, that his blatant favoritism caused unintended consequences for Joseph. A different Joseph, Jesus’ self-effacing earthly father, is only mentioned in the Bible during chapters about his son’s childhood. Bonus question: Do you know the reason paintings and statues often show St. Joseph holding a lily?

Has a father from literature influenced you? Do you find any literary fathers particularly memorable? Please contribute your suggestions in our “comments” section.

Gerald Dierkes is an information services specialist for the Information and Research Assistance team, senior copyeditor for the Communication and Publications team, and a liaison to the Department of Theater.

There is a lot of history in Falvey Memorial Library, and not all of it is on the bookshelves! To commemorate Reunion 2013 Weekend, we asked several Villanova alumni to share a treasured memory or two of the campus Library and its resources.

I cried twice during my four years at Villanova University in the early 1980s: On my first day on campus, because I was homesick, and on graduation day, because I didn’t want to leave. But it was a much more recent incident involving Villanova—one that almost brought me to tears—that inspired me to write this piece.

Growing up, it had never been my intention to attend any college, much less Villanova specifically. I felt that I was smart enough to make my way in the world, and assumed that after my graduation from Red Bank (N.J.) Catholic High School, I’d be done with formal education.

My mother, a master psychologist (though possessing no formal training other than maternal instincts and wisdom), felt otherwise. For no reason that I could pinpoint to this day, she had decided that I should attend Villanova. Nobody in our family had any connection to the school. In fact, my older sister was the first relative that I had known to graduate college.

Through a series of psychological maneuvers, most subtle but some not, my mother persuaded/encouraged/tricked (take your pick) me into choosing to attend Villanova.

Even though the school was only two hours away from our home at the Jersey Shore, it seemed like a different country. It was in suburban Philadelphia. People spoke with a funny accent. They said things like “hoe-mm” for “home” and “noo-ice” for “nice.” And it was far from the ocean. I had never lived far from the ocean. It felt like a foreign country and I was stuck.

Thus, the first bout of crying. It happened on my first day in the Stanford Hall community showers, Wing 4B. I just leaned up against the wall—nobody was around—and began sobbing, wondering what kind of mess I had gotten myself into by agreeing to attend this school.

Fast forward: The next four years were packed with learning experiences that broadened my horizons and helped prepare me for the world to come. Just as important, I had a lot of fun and met scores of great people. Many are still my friends today.

All those good times made it very hard to leave Villanova. At the end of my senior year, I was looking forward to attending law school at Boston College, but I knew it would never compare to my undergraduate experience.

As I stepped into the shower to get ready for our graduation ceremony on my very last day of college—this time in an off-campus apartment that I shared with my two roommates, Mike Healey and Steve Fallon — the sadness of leaving my beloved Villanova hit me all at once. I just leaned against the wall and cried for about three minutes, oblivious to the water cascading over me.

It’s been almost 28 years since I walked down the aisle at the Fieldhouse to accept my diploma. I can’t believe that it’s been that long. But Villanova has remained an important focal point in my life and in the lives of many of my alumni friends. We get together at least four or five times each basketball season to cheer on the Wildcats, plus at other times of the year for assorted events.

Villanova has earned a lot of accolades and has enjoyed considerable athletic success since I graduated (e.g. being consistently ranked #1 in its category by U.S News and World Report and winning national championships in men’s basketball and football), but I don’t think I was ever as proud of the University as I was last spring.

Two years ago, the son of a work friend of mine was considering four good colleges, and one of them was Villanova. I had never met the boy, but my friend asked me to e-mail his son with my thoughts on Villanova. While ostensibly trying to maintain a veneer of impartiality, I analyzed his list of acceptances for him via e-mail, and did my best to subtly steer him to Villanova (some of my mother’s skills of persuasion, it seems, were passed down.)

We exchanged three or four e-mails. Ultimately, the boy chose to become a Wildcat. I’m sure my mother was smiling down from above. My friend thanked me for providing guidance to his son.

Last June, I had lunch with that friend. I asked him how his son had fared during his first year in college.

His face took on a noticeably pained look and he said, “Well, actually, my son had a very tough first semester, and was not doing well in the second semester, when Villanova called me and my wife in for a meeting in April. They offered our son a medical leave so that he could take new medication for a learning disability that he has, and try to get his grades up at another college before trying to transfer back into Villanova.”

He went on to say that his son, who has great native intelligence, had lost his focus while living away from home with the freedom of college life and his academic performance suffered.

“You know Larry,” he said, “If I were Villanova, I would’ve just kicked him out for not performing up to par, but they didn’t do that. They treated us unbelievably well. The counselor at the school said ‘You’re part of the Villanova family now, we’ll do everything we can to help you …’ I couldn’t believe it.”

I was never prouder of our great—and good—University. It made me choke up a bit right there at the lunch table, although, luckily, not quite to the point of tears. I looked skyward and silently thanked my mother once again.

Larry Goanos is the CEO of Andros Risk Services, an independent insurance consulting firm. He’s also the author of “Claims Made & Reported: A Journey Through D&O, E&O and Other Professional Lines of Insurance” (2008 Soho Publishing, www.sixthandspringbooks.com; all proceeds go to four charities.) Warren Buffet said of the book: “It deserves accolades … The chapter on September 11th was particularly moving.” He can be reached at lgoanos@androsriskservices.com.

There is a lot of history in Falvey Memorial Library, and not all of it is on the bookshelves! To commemorate Reunion 2013 Weekend, we asked several Villanova alumni to share a treasured memory or two of the campus Library and its resources.

During my youth, I spent way more hours than I probably should have in two separate and distinct spheres of influence: the library and the athletic department. My first job, which I started at the tail end of eighth grade, was working after school in the Mercer County (N.J.) Library. At first, I was assigned to returning books to their proper shelf space, and gradually added “checking out” books, repairing books and printing posters to my job. I held that job all through high school, especially in the summer time.

But when I got to high school, I started working behind the scenes in the high school athletic department—keeping score, writing stories, cleaning laundry, repairing equipment. My senior year, I had the keys to every office and facility based on my expanded role as student manager of all the athletic teams—the nice elderly gentleman who had the job my freshman and sophomore years had died, and I was the only one who knew where everything was! At the same time I was working in the county library system, and then it all came to a head my senior year in high school when my homeroom was … the library. Weird.

By the time I got to Villanova University, I thought I knew everything I needed to learn about libraries. So the first time I had a chance to go into Falvey Memorial Library, I was surprised—it was so big! So many things to see! A whole new library to get to know. I had very few class assignments freshman year that got me into Falvey. But my other work, this time in Villanova’s athletic department, got me into the Library to do some research on their sports programs for my first writing assignment: a history of the Jake Nevin Field House!

I grew to appreciate first-hand the great collection at Falvey. By the time I declared my major, English, I was spending many hours of what little free time I had in Falvey – when you are an English major at Villanova (especially in the early 1980s), basically you are majoring in reading. Countless hours were spent poring over their collection of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hawthorne and Melville. Directed there by the late, great Professor Joseph W. Ratigan, I very rarely wandered out of the third floor of Falvey!

I became obsessed with a little corner of Falvey that seemed to have every book ever written about F. Scott Fitzgerald. I would pile them up on a table and read two or three at a time. I would hand-write my notes in blue notebooks with blue pens, and then transcribe my notes on my Royal portable manual typewriter on copier paper I had borrowed from the copier machine in the sports information office. Then I would look in the periodical room. That inspired me (I didn’t have access to a car) to my take my once-a-month walks to the old Bryn Mawr News Agency to buy stacks of magazines to read in Stanford Hall at night.

Over the next few years, especially when I started working at Villanova, it was a special treat to return to Falvey for a few minutes of peace. Even though the climate control left a lot to be desired, and my well known hatred of stairs even then had me cursing every climb, I got there as often as I could. Then I started noticing on my free time, or on trips out of town, I started haunting bookstores, and most of the old books I would pick up were ones I had first seen or read in Falvey. Baldwin’s Book Barn in West Chester was a haven for me then—an escape from campus but yet a return to my roots.

From about 1985 through about 2005, I collected books. So many, in fact, that I had to get a storage unit! Now I have a “mini-Falvey” in my home—as I have only the rarest of opportunities to return to that magic Library. I’ve tried to recreate the memory with my stacks of books on Fitzgerald and Hemingway, American illustration, children’s literature, American fiction and biography. But it’s not the same. Falvey Memorial Library truly inspired my love of books, and I hope it continues to inspire that love in Villanovans for many years to come.

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There is a lot of history in Falvey Memorial Library, and not all of it is on the bookshelves! To commemorate Reunion 2013 Weekend, we asked several Villanova alumni to share a treasured memory or two of the campus Library and its resources.

My introduction to the many facets of Falvey Memorial Library began early in my freshman year. In those ancient times, security guards had not yet heard everything, and I had talked my way into a five minute stop in Mendel lot behind Falvey. I backed out of my parking spot and right into the Datsun of a librarian. My dad was able to convince the librarian to not file an insurance claim and had him obtain an estimate for the small damage to his left front bumper. Dad did not let me forget for four years that I caused one hundred dollars in damages to another car with my carelessness. No damage was incurred to my Mom’s 1972 Pontiac Grand Safari. My walking path to classes took me past this parking spot with the librarian’s car that never had the damage repaired.

The Library and its original building, in my student days referred to as the “Falvey Annex,” are wonderful examples of Villanova University’s traditional architecture. Too bad I did not have the opportunity to sop up its scholarly ambiance. My hours on campus not spent in the classroom or at band practice were spent in what was known as the “Reserve Room.” This was a room in the library’s basement in the right corner facing the train tracks. Its cinderblock walls were painted white and its windows were a fishbowl for any nursing faculty to peer in to double check that you were sitting in the seat that you had signed in.

The purpose of the Reserve Room was to access journal articles that were chosen by the nursing faculty as part of the required curriculum reading. These articles were not part of the $300.00 per semester book purchase, and the articles could not be Xeroxed without a notary stamp from the Pope. There was one copy of said article for the entire nursing class to read, and it was to one’s advantage to employ Lord of the Flies behavior (too bad that wasn’t on the reading list, since I read it in grade school, which is what those cinderblock walls reminded me of, shout out to Saint Joan of Arc in Marlton, N.J.!). My fellow classmates, “C”, “D” and “R,” would team up to try to get one of the many assigned articles and then we would try to outline the article on separate paper before our time was up. If there was something you did not have the chance to read before a test, you would pray it was a red herring and not have twenty questions about it on the one hundred question test.

Outside of the “Reserve Room” was a pay phone with a dial (for a dime) and the pay-to-use typewriters. I will end my recollections here since I have used up my word allotment.

There is a lot of history in Falvey Memorial Library, and not all of it is on the bookshelves! To commemorate Reunion 2013 Weekend, we asked several Villanova alumni to share a treasured memory or two of the campus Library and its resources.

4,500.

That’s the number of hours—on a very conservative calculation, actually—I spent at Falvey Memorial Library during my years at Villanova University.

As an undergrad working at Circulation, I averaged perhaps around eight hours per week for two academic semesters in each of my four years. And as Programming and Outreach Graduate Assistant from 2010 – 2012, I averaged just over 20 hours per week over four semesters.

But Falvey wasn’t just where I went to work. It was where I went to … well, work, too. If I guestimate I spent 10 hours per week there pursuing academic endeavors (though, most weeks, I know it was much longer than this!) for 32 weeks over six years, I’m likely approaching 5,000 hours.

So when Joanne Quinn, Falvey’s Team Leader for Communication and Service Promotion, reached out to ask if I’d offer favorite memories at Falvey, I didn’t know where to begin. After so much time, I’m not sure I could sum it up in just one or a handful of memories.

Falvey was, and is, a home inside a home. I was part of teams that I knew were making a difference to the campus community. And though students might think I’m crazy for saying it, Falvey is a source of comfort on campus. It’s the research partner we know is always there, the cup of coffee on the rainy-day hike across campus, the printer when the paper is due in 10 minutes and the book that you needed (or, at least, wanted) to make the grade.

Most of all, I’ve watched Falvey truly become a learning commons shared by students from every academic college and discipline. It has taught thousands of us the values of knowledge and preparation, collaboration, research and perseverance. Often those lessons are missed when they come at 3 a.m. in the middle of finals, but they’ve shaped us nonetheless.

My time in Falvey offered three additional, personal lessons:

1. Be a perpetual student

I don’t think we were ever content to just “let things be” at Falvey. For example, during my time there we actively sought to enhance our capabilities for academic conversation through new and compelling lectures and special events.

I was often impressed by how much our effort was appreciated by Villanova community members. It was soon clear that we became continually better as a community by extending the classroom learning process in new and creative ways.

2. The small things can make a difference

One thing I really loved about my time as Programming and Outreach Graduate Assistant was that I could directly and consistently contribute to the campus’ academic and social growth. The effort our team and I spent planning for, coordinating and running events provided new venues and opportunities for personal, professional and academic development.

Everyone who has passed through will, I hope, use that knowledge in their lives and careers. And that means the seemingly minor parts of what we did – setting up chairs and podiums or preparing a PowerPoint – in reality can have a big impact.

3. You can never reach the “end”

Just 10 sources on that paper? Why not push the envelope and develop the argument further? Or, just one event space in Falvey? Why not open up even more possibilities with four of them?

This, I think, is a big part of Falvey’s role at Villanova. Everything about the Library challenges us to learn, to work harder, to be better for ourselves and for our Villanova community and to contribute something back to those who have supported us.

Just one year out, I miss the home that Falvey was for me and everyone with whom I was privileged to work. It will always challenge me towards excellence (even when that excellence isn’t a delirious spark of inspiration on a final paper!). For that, I’m grateful, and look forward to Falvey’s future in Villanova’s story!

Jeff Eisenberg ’10 LAS, ’12 MA is currently a marketing specialist at Xtium, Inc. in King of Prussia, PA.

Sue Connor, Resource Management specialist, retired on May 30 after 23 years of service to Falvey Memorial Library. As a part-time employee, Sue’s contributions to the Library were significant. In the late 1990s, as Falvey moved to a new integrated library system, Sue helped to convert a tedious, manual check-in process to an automated one. She was also responsible for checking in the daily mail, helping to maintain the current-periodicals shelves and staffing the Periodicals Room weekends and one night a week.

As the Library moved to a team centered environment, Sue split her time between the Resource Management team and the Information Desk, answering patron questions. As a Resource Management specialist, Sue checked in the daily mail of print journals in the catalog, helped troubleshoot online access for electronic journals, and assisted in various acquisitions functions. According to Susan Markley, Resource Management team leader, “Sue was a willing volunteer for all kinds of special projects related to serial management and other team activities. Her enthusiasm and experience will be greatly missed.”

In her “free” time, Sue was also a regular volunteer for the Digital Library’s transcription project, working hard to make early texts searchable by deciphering handwritten letters and manuscripts and transcribing the text with notes into a standard format Word document. Michael Foight, Special Collections and Digital Library coordinator, noted that, “Sue was a deft hand at reading old scripts and would regularly complete two to three letters a week … in addition to her other duties.”

Sue plans to spend her time traveling back and forth to Margate, N.J., with her husband, Jim, and golden retriever, Lily, and helping out with her six grandchildren.

Laura Hutelmyer is the photography coordinator for the Communication and Publications Team and Special Acquisitions Coordinator in Resource Management.

Falvey Memorial Library is holding a conference, “Paper for the People: A Conference on Dime Novels and Early Mass Marketing Publishing,” to celebrate the recently discovered collection of dime novels and other late-nineteenth-century popular materials. To register for this free conference, to be held on June 10-11, go to the vupop registration page. The registration deadline is June 7.

On June 10, presentations and panel discussions on dime novels will begin at 9 a.m. in Speakers’ Corner. Joe Rainone, an expert world-class collector, will discuss “the origins of science fiction in ‘steampunk’ dime novels.” A tribute to a legendary bibliographer, Edward T. LeBlanc, will be presented. The Falvey Memorial Library Dime Novel Exhibit, featuring some fascinating rare items, will officially open. Lunch will be provided for attendees.

You might also want to explore the Blue Electrode, which offers a number of digitized dime novels for your reading pleasure.

An “unofficial post-conference get together” will follow the scheduled conference on June 11. Tentative plans include tours of the Library and its digitization laboratory and also brainstorming sessions on future digital initiatives.

Falvey plans to host another conference—Popular Culture Series 2—in summer 2014.

Alice Bampton is an digital image specialist and senior writer on the Communication and Publications Team.

Falvey Memorial Library photographers didn’t have any trouble finding interesting glimpses of the day-long Library Futures Symposium and ACRL Award Celebration on May 14th. Below are a few photo highlights. Enjoy!

Fr. Peter Donohue displays the ACRL award.

Dr. Aaron Bauer, department of biology, and others gave eight minute “lightning talks.”

Dr. Edwin Goff and Dr. Alfonso Ortega enjoying the ACRL Gala Celebration.

Bill Greene, Dick Swain and Luisa Cywinski entertain the crowd as part of the librarian band, Marc Fields and Bad Data.

Photographs by Alice Bampton and Laura Hutelmyer

Laura Hutelmyer is the photography coordinator for the Communication and Publications Team and Special Acquisitions Coordinator in Resource Management.

Alice Bampton is a digital image specialist and senior writer on the Communication and Publications Team.

The Rev. Peter M. Donohue, OSA, PhD, ’75 LAS, held a reception in the Presidents’ Lounge, Connelly Center, on May 6 in recognition of Falvey Memorial Library’s receiving the ACRL Award for Excellence in Academic Libraries. Father Donohue had invited all Falvey staff members to the reception “to recognize your work in achieving the ACRL Award.” As you can see in the photos below, Library staff enjoyed food, beverages and fellowship.

Father Kail Ellis, Joe Lucia and Father Peter Donohue.

Falvey Library staff gathers in the Presidents’ Lounge for the reception.

Falvey Library staff enjoy good food, drinks and good company.

Alice Bampton is a digital image specialist and senior writer on the Communication and Publications Team.

Laura Hutelmyer is the photography coordinator for the Communication and Publications Team and Special Acquisitions Coordinator in Resource Management.