Falvey Library Blogs
Curious Cat: Fascinating Facts
By Anna Jankowski, Ethan Shea, and Annie Stockmal Happy Thursday, Wildcats! The Curious Cat is back with more impromptu interviews and hard-hitting questions. This week we asked a few Falvey patrons to tell us an interesting fact they learned ...
TBT: Warm Weather and Rainy Days
Spring is finally here! Warm weather and rainy days are on the way. Don’t forget your umbrellas, Wildcats! Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication & Marketing Specialist at Falvey Library. ...
Cat in the Stax: “I too, dislike it”
By Ethan Shea In just a few days, National Poetry Month will begin. This celebration is the perfect opportunity to return to your favorite poems, discover some new ones, or even write one for yourself! Poetry comes in many forms. You could channel ...
A Faculty Perspective on Using OER in the Classroom
Dr. Alicia Strandberg, a recipient of the 2022-23 OER Faculty Adoption Grant, shared reflections about using open educational resources in MSA 8115, a graduate level course on Multivariate Data Analysis. The questions I asked her about are in ...
Dig Deeper: Donika Kelly
By Julia Wagner Villanova University’s 2023 Literary Festival will be featuring poet Donika Kelly, author of The Renunciations (Graywolf) and Bestiary (Graywolf), for a reading and talk on Thursday, March 30, at 7 p.m. in Falvey Library’s ...
Peek at the Week: March 27
QUOTE OF THE WEEK In Atonement, Ian McEwan wrote, “Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.” As we make our way further into the second-half of the semester, often a time of high stress and high ...
Greek Independence Day: A Selection from the Villanova Digital Library
March 25 is Greek Independence Day. The holiday commemorates the start of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, which concluded a nearly 400-year period of Ottoman rule in Greece. The anniversary is commemorated with parades in both Greece and the ...
Foto Friday: Sweet 16 Sendoff
Good luck to the (#4) Villanova Women’s Basketball team as they take on the (#9) University of Miami today at 2:30 p.m. Tune into ESPN to watch! #MarchMadness #LetsMarchNova #Sweet16 #FotoFriday Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication & ...
Weekend Recs: The Hunger Games Universe
Happy Friday, Wildcats! Falvey Library is delivering you another semester of Weekend Recs, a blog dedicated to filling you in on what to read, listen to, and watch over the weekend. Annie, a graduate assistant from the Communication department, ...