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Arts and Sciences

Scott, Mark (2012). Journey Back to God: Origen on the Problem of Evil. New York: Oxford University Press.

NagyZekmi, Silvia, & Hollis, Karen (eds) (2012). Global academe: engaging intellectual discourse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Barrett, David, & Holland, Max (2012). Blind over Cuba: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Wieder, R. Kelman, Vile, Melanie, Scott, Kimberli, Brault, Erin, Harris, Michelle, & Mowbray, Stephen B. (2012). Disturbance and the peatland carbon sink in the Oil Sands Administrative Area. In Dale Vitt & Jagtar Bhatti (Eds.), Restoration and Reclamation of Boreal Ecosystems: Attaining Sustainable Development (pp. 13-22). New York: Cambridge University Press.

McCall, Timothy (2012). Pier Maria’s Legacy: (Il)legitimacy, Inheritance, and Rule of Parma’s Rossi Dynasty. In Katherine A. McIver (Ed.), Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy: Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage (pp. 33-54). Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Barnett, Christopher (2012). Henri de Lubac: Locating Kierkegaard Amid the ‘Drama’ of Nietzschean Humanism. In Jon Stewart (Ed.), Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Volume 10, Tome III: Kierkegaard’s Influence on Theology – Catholic and Jewish Theology (pp. 97-110). Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Barnett, Christopher (2012). Erich Przywara: Catholicism’s Great Expositor of the ‘Mystery’ of Kierkegaard. In Jon Stewart (Ed.), Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Volume 10, Tome III: Kierkegaard’s Influence on Theology – Catholic and Jewish Theology (pp. 131-154). Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Hirschfeld, Mary (2012). Culture as the Locus for Economic Relation. In Daniel K. Finn (Ed.), The Moral Dynamics of Economic Life: An Extension and Critique of Caritas in Veritate (pp. 69-71). New York: Oxford University Press.

Hirschfeld, Mary (2012). Expanding the Economic Paradigm of Development. In Daniel K. Finn (Ed.), The Moral Dynamics of Economic Life: An Extension and Critique of Caritas in Veritate (pp. 94-97). New York: Oxford University Press.

Hirschfeld, Mary (2012). The Ambiguities of Accessible Language. In Daniel K. Finn (Ed.), The Moral Dynamics of Economic Life: An Extension and Critique of Caritas in Veritate (pp. 116-117). New York: Oxford University Press.

Moreland, Anna Bonta, & Curran, James (eds.) (2012). New Voices in Catholic Theology. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Co.

Gentles-Peart, Kamille, & Hall, Maurice (eds.) (2012). Re-constructing Place and Space: Media, Culture, Discourse and the Constitution of Caribbean Diasporas. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

Wilson, James Matthew (2012). The Fugitive and the Exile: Theodor W. Adorno, John Crowe Ransom, and The Kenyon Review. In John D. McIntyre (Ed.), Rereading the New Criticism (pp. 83-104). Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press.

Hadley, Judith (2012). 2 Chronicles 32:30 and the water systems of pre-exilic Jerusalem. In Mark J. Boda (Ed.), Let us go up to Zion :  essays in honour of H.G.M. Williamson on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (pp. 273-284). Leiden: Brill.

Giesburg, Judith (2012). Orphans and Indians: Pennsylvania’s Soldiers’ Orphan Schools and the Landscape of Postwar Childhood. In James Marten (Ed.), Children and Youth During the Civil War era (pp. 188-205). New York: New York University Press.

Godzieba, Anthony (2012). Quaestio Disputata: The Magisterium in an Age of Digital Reproduction. In Richard R. Gaillardetz (Ed.), When the Magisterium Intervenes: The Magisterium and Theologians in Today’s Church (pp. 140-153). Collegeville, MN: Michael Glazier.

DeFina, Robert, & Hannon, Lance (2012). Cruel and Unusual: The True Costs of Our Prison System. In James A. Crone (Ed.), 15 Disturbing Things We Need to Know (pp. 83-92). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.

Schofield, Mary Anne (2012). Manning Coles: The Intermodernism Of Espionage Fiction. In Robert Lance Snyder (Ed.), Espionage Fiction: The Seduction of Clandestinity (pp. 55-72). Vashon Island, WA: Paradoxa.

Villanova School of Business

Avery, Derek R., McKay, Patrick F., & Roberson, Quinetta (2012). Managing Diversity Means Managing Differently: A Look at the Role of Racioethnicity in Perceptions of Organizational Support. In Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro, Lynn M. Shore, and Lois E. Tetrick (Eds.), The Employee-Organization Relationship: Applications for the 21st Century (pp. 509-532). New York: Routledge.

Liberatore, Matthew, & Miller, Tan (2012). Supply chain planning: practical frameworks for superior performance. New York: Business Expert Press.

Doh, Jonathan, & Oetzel, Jennifer (2012). Reconceptualizing the MNE-Development Relationship: the Role of Complementary Resources. In Alain Verbeke & Hemant Merchant (Eds.), Handbook of Research on International Strategic Management (pp. 451-471). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Quinn, Dennis, Schindler, Martin, & Toyoda, A. Maria (2012). Measurements of Capital and Financial Current Account Openness. In Gerard Caprio (Ed.), The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization (pp. 15-34). Boston: Academic Press.

Kozup, John, Taylor, Charles R., Capella, Michael L., & Kees, Jeremy (2012). Sound Disclosures: Assessing When a Disclosure Is Worthwhile. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 313-322. doi: 10.1509/jppm.12.047

Engineering

McCarthy, Leslie Myers, Park, Seri, & Mensching, David (2012). Development of a Warm Mix Asphalt Technology Evaluation Program (NCHRP 20-07/Task 311). AASHTO Standing Committee on Highways, Transportation Research Board.

Miller, Steven P., Dunlap, Brett I., & Fleischer, Amy S. (2012). Cation Coordination And Interstitial Oxygen Occupancy In Co-Doped Zirconia From First Principles. Solid State Ionics 227, 66-72.

Muske, Kenneth, Ashrafiuon, Hashem, Nersesov, Sergey, & Nikkhah, Mehdi (2012). Optimal Sliding Mode Cascade Control for Stabilization of Underactuated Nonlinear Systems. Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control 134(2), 021020 (11 pages). http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4005367

Crawford, Robert, Nathan, Rungun, Wang, Liyun, & Wu, Qianhong (2012). Experimental Study On The Lift Generation Inside A Random Synthetic Porous Layer Under Rapid Compaction. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 36, 205-216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2011.09.014

Caverly, Robert (2012). Microwave and RF p-i-n Diode Model for Time-Domain Simulation. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 60(7), 2158-2164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2012.2195024

Nursing

Perrin Ross, Amy, & Smeltzer, Suzanne (2012). “Nursing Management of the Patient with Multiple Sclerosis”. American Association of Neuroscience Nurses, AANN and ARN Clinical Practice Guideline Series.

Sharts-Hopko, Nancy (2012). Health care reform: what does it mean for people living with HIV infection? Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 23(2), 107-110. doi: 10.1016/j.jana.2011.07.003

Capriotti, Theresa, & Sheerin, Sara (2012). HAART Medications: Clinical Implications for the Older Adult. The Clinical Advisor, 15(5), 23-29.

Mariani, Bette A. (2012). Our Ethical Responsibility in the Transition to Practice for New RNs. Pennsylvania Nurse, 67(2), 4-7.

Trout, Kimberly K., McGrath, Joanna, Flanagan, Jill, Costello, Marcia, & Frey, Jesse (2012). A Pilot Study to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Pregnant Latina Women. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health 3(1), 2-5. doi: 10.1177/2150131911414430

If you have ever read a classic book in an electronic format, especially if you didn’t have to pay for it, there’s a good chance you were enjoying the fruits of Project Gutenberg. Since the early 1970s, Project Gutenberg has been converting out-of-copyright texts into electronic formats and making them freely available. Since March of 2012, the Digital Library team has been contributing some of their digitized titles to Project Gutenberg. One of the latest of our books to be made available as a Project Gutenberg e-book is Bolax: Imp or Angel–Which? by Mrs. Josephine Culpeper. (We think the title alone would stir your curiosity.)

Previous titles we have featured and proofread are Atchoo!, How to Fence, The Brighton Boys in the Trenches and the list goes on.

Visit the Blue Electrode Blog to find out more about the Distributed Proofreaders Project and to follow Falvey’s participation in this project.

By Demian Katz, Laura Bang, and Luisa Cywinski

By Darren Poley

Habemus Papam, one of the most famous Latin phrases still in use today, means “We have a Pope!” It will be said preceding the announcement of which bishop is to be elevated to the office of supreme pontiff. But this ceremony follows a great deal of ritual surrounding the election of a new pope by the group of electors from the College of Cardinals. For a thorough description of the process, see “Election of new pope follows detailed procedure,” a Catholic News Service story.

Pope Benedict XVI’s official abdication of the Chair of Peter on February 28 signals the first time in modern history that the bishop of Rome has retired rather than stay in office until the end of his mortal life. Many have reacted to this news in various ways, but blogger Rocco Palmo summarizes some of the issues related to the papal resignation very well in his Feb. 12 post: “And Now, ‘Vatishock’.” Palmo’s blog Whispers in the Loggia has received accolades for his deeply insightful and punctiliar style of reporting on ecclesiastical affairs. Another online source to watch for Catholic Church news is “Live Catholic Headlines from the last 30 days.”

As the world turns its view towards the papal election, keep in mind Falvey has reputable newspapers and magazines with features, opinion, and analysis that will greatly enhance an understanding of current events. Issues of renowned Catholic magazines, America, Commonweal, The Tablet, and U.S. Catholic for example, as well as newspapers, such as the National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter, and Our Sunday Visitor are available for reading in the current periodical area on the first floor of the Library. Like many news periodicals today, however, the weekly newspaper from the Vatican L’Osservatore Romano has content online and in print, including editorials like “The future is God’s” from the same day as Benedict XVI “announced his decision to ‘renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome’.”

Another resource, Origins, is the documentary service publication from the Catholic News Service organization. The Feb. 21 issue of Origins has “Reactions to Pope Benedict XVI’s Resignation” by various religious and civic leaders, as well as an English translation of the statement of resignation by Pope Benedict XVI. Origins is a digest of official and authoritative sources of information, including speeches and statements on matters related to the Catholic Church. Recent issues of Origins have been placed on reserve in the Library, so you need to ask for them at the circulation desk. There is an online archive of Origins to which Falvey subscribes, too. The Journal Finder is the best way to determine if Falvey provides access to content from periodicals either in print or online, or both.

Darren Poley is the theology and religious studies subject librarian. Contact him directly at darren.poley@villanova.edu.

On Thursday, Feb. 21, at 3:00 p.m. the Library will host a Scholarship@Villanova event featuring Ronald Hill, PhD, Richard J. and Barbara Naclerio Chair and professor of marketing and business law in the Villanova School of Business. Dr. Hill’s lecture, “A Manifesto on Marketing as Exchange,” will address contemporary trends in the discipline and practice of marketing and also their relationship to human value.

Dr. Hill’s research, which will be presented Thursday as part of his lecture, led to his selection for last year’s prestigious Outstanding Faculty Research Award. His approach begins with several criticisms of marketing as a discipline, including its recent theoretical tendency to “disregard of the vast majority of consumers in favor of a narrow, affluent socioeconomic subset.” Over the years Dr. Hill has developed a broad and eclectic body of research, and his work on the intersection between marketing and society can be found in illustrious publications like Harvard Business Review and Human Rights Quarterly.

Scholarship@Villanova events are dedicated to recognition of bold scholarly publications, exciting ongoing research, and other intellectual contributions of faculty members from all four of Villanova University’s colleges. Dr. Hill’s talk represents the second spring-semester lecture in this series. In the tradition of past Scholarship@Villanova lectures, this event is free and open to the public, and will be held at the Speakers’ Corner on the first floor of the Library.

By Alice Bampton

To celebrate Black History Month and the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Joanne Quinn, graphic designer, worked with Judith Giesberg, PhD, an associate professor of history, to create a cultural display. A large central poster, “In Commemoration of Black History Month and the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation,” draws us into the exhibit. Flanking this are two large vertical posters. On the left, “God is Settling the Account” provides a brief account of the Emancipation Proclamation, and under an image of Lincoln appears the text of the proclamation. “African American Reaction to Lincoln’s Emancipation,” the poster to the right, includes portraits, other images and text.

Smaller informative posters highlight “Memorable Days: The Emilie Davis Diaries,” (Dr. Giesberg and her team created the The Emilie Davis Diaries website); “Never Caught: The President’s Runaway Slave,” a lecture by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, PhD; and “How and When to Commemorate Emancipation,” a lecture by William A. Blair, PhD. Various books drawn from Falvey’s collection, a bust of Lincoln, flags, two digital slide shows and other artifacts complete the exhibit.

Eye-catching and informative, the display was mounted by Quinn with the help of Ann Stango, Access Services specialist, and Minh Cao, graduate assistant. Stephanie Liu, a Falvey student employee, prepared the PowerPoints for the digital picture frames. Jutta Seibert, Academic Integration team leader, provided databases for the one slide show; the other one shows images of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Black History Month, celebrated since 1976, is an outgrowth of Negro History Week, established in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, educator, historian and leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Woodson selected the second week in February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), an abolitionist whose birthday is celebrated on February 14.

By Corey Waite Arnold

On Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7:00 p.m., poet Diane Gilliam Fisher, PhD, will give a reading at the Library as part of the 15th Annual Villanova Literary Festival. Dr. Fisher’s most recent book, entitled Kettle Bottom, tells the story of the West Virginia coal mine wars of 1920-1921 through the individual perspectives and voice of characters affected by those events.

Dr. Fisher is the recipient of an illustrious range of poetry honors and awards, including the 2008 Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing and a spot on the American Booksellers Association’s spring 2005 Book Sense Picks Poetry Top Ten list for Kettle Bottom. Her poetry shows a remarkable awareness of buried histories, and her language illuminates the beauty in seemingly common vernacular. By leveraging the dialects of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia, Dr. Fisher invokes a sense of place in her poetry as dependent on language as it is on landscape, and even the minor communications in her work crackle with a rare vitality. Dr. Fisher earned her PhD in Romance Languages from Ohio State University, and her MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. She currently lives in Ohio.

The reading is the second in this year’s Literary Festival, sponsored by the Department of English. Along with Dr. Fisher, the festival will bring major writers from all over the country to Villanova’s campus, including Junot Díaz, a recent recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Keep an eye on the Department of English blog and homepage for future announcements regarding festival events.

This event will be held in the Speakers’ Corner of the Library, and will be followed by a book sale and signing.

Graphic Design by Joanne Quinn

By Darren G. Poley

Begin your research with reference books on topics related to Catholic social thought and teaching. The print reference collection is located on Falvey’s 2nd floor. Some excellent books to explore are The New dictionary of Catholic social thought, Human rights and the world’s major religions and the Encyclopedia of Catholic social thought, social science, and social policy. The New Catholic Encyclopedia in print or online is another good place to start.

Church documents that contribute to Catholic social teaching, such as Pope John Paul II’s “Compendium of the social doctrine of the Church” and Pope Benedict XVI’s “encyclical on integral human development in charity and truth,” are not only online at the Vatican Web Site (See Compendium and Caritas in veritate) but also shelved with commentaries on church statements (Catholic social thought: American reflections on the Compendium and The moral dynamics of economic life: an extension and critique of Caritas in veritate, for example) in the Falvey West stacks area. There you will also find anthologies of Catholic Church documents as well as scholarly sources on them: The social agenda: a collection of magisterial texts,  Catholic social thought: the documentary heritage and Modern Catholic social teaching: commentaries and interpretations.

To search by subject using descriptive phrases that match the subject headings in Falvey’s catalog as well as those in many databases, such as the ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index, here are some suggestions: “Christian ethics Catholic authors,” “Christian sociology Catholic Church,” “Church and social problems Catholic Church,” “Globalization Religious aspects Catholic Church,” “Peace Religious aspects Catholic Church,” “Economics Religious aspects Catholic Church” and “Human rights Religious Aspects.”

For some basic resources online that can familiarize you with Catholic Social Teaching, explore “Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching” by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, or go to Villanova University’s Office for Mission and Ministry resource page. Finally, for a thorough annotated bibliography on the subject, consult Catholic social thought, Renovating the tradition: a keyguide to resources.

Darren Poley is the theology and religious studies subject librarian. Contact him directly at darren.poley@villanova.edu.

This Tuesday, Feb. 12, the Villanova University community will gather for a marathon reading of Dante’s Inferno. Students, faculty, and staff are all invited to Falvey Memorial Library to read a Canto from this classic Italian text. As the first part of Dante’s epic Divine Comedy, Inferno provides an allegorical journey of Dante Alighieri himself, as a pilgrim, traveling through the nine circles of hell. The reading will begin at 10 a.m. in the library first floor lounge, and refreshments will be served throughout the day. Participants are welcome to read in either English or Italian, and costumes are encouraged.

Continuing the Villanova University community-marathon-reading tradition, this year’s event focuses on all things Italian. Sponsored by the Italian Club, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Villanova Center for Liberal Education (VCLE), the Office for Mission and Ministry, the Department of Humanities, the Classical Studies program and the Library, the marathon reading is the brainchild of Romance Languages Assistant Professor Diane Biunno, PhD, and Special Collections and Digital Library Coordinator Michael Foight.

The “l’avventura Dantesca” is sure to be divertente!

Asked what relevance a fourteenth-century work like the Divine Comedy has for 21st century readers, Foight pointed out the prolific use of Dante’s allegories and imagery in modern, adaptive works, and Dante’s stylistic device of casting himself in his own poem, a trope often seen in contemporary literature.

The event coincides with an online exhibit of Dante materials from Falvey Special Collections prepared by Dr. Biunno, billed as an “illustrated adventure” through the epic, with scans of etchings and prints by Dore, Botticelli and others. This fascinating exhibit is live now on the library’s website, and provides several unique visualizations of Dante’s masterpiece, including images from Inferno. Dr. Biunno served as a Digital Library intern this summer and is currently enrolled in Drexel University’s Master of Science in Library and Information Science program. She teaches Italian courses here at Villanova University. On Tuesday’s reading, her students will read a portion of the Cantos in Italian.

Other readers are encouraged to participate, and all members of the University community are invited to stop in and listen. If you’d like to practice your reading before the big event, check out the entire work online here.

As with many library events, first-year student participation earns ACS credits. Previous community readings of classical texts have included the Odyssey, the Iliad, and Augustine’s Confessions.

If you have any questions, please contact Diane Biunno.

The Library is making The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics available to the entire campus community. The Encyclopedia is an online resource accessible through a catalog search.

The Encyclopedia, published in November, is an online comprehensive reference resource covering the highly diverse field of applied linguistics. Coverage includes “27 key areas of the field,” including

language learning and teaching,

bilingual and multilingual education,

assessment and testing,

corpus linguistics,

conversation analysis,

discourse,

cognitive second language acquisition,

language policy and planning,

literacy, and

technology and language.

Additional features available with this resource include regular additions and updates to articles, as well as new entries, to keep the Encyclopedia current and cutting edge. It offers a wealth of additional material, too, such as sound files and direct links to cross referenced articles, creating a multifaceted learning experience. Entries are available in both HTML and PDF, enabling users to print in a clean, easy-to-read format, which includes citation and cross-references. The encyclopedia is easy to navigate and available 24/7 through the library’s website.

Image courtesy of The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

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