Falvey Library Blogs
Learn a Language with Mango, Now Available Through the Library
Mango is a personalized, adaptive language-learning experience that provides the tools and guidance you need to expand your language skills, wherever and however you learn best. Mango covers 70 world languages and dialects, including English as a ...
Content Roundup – Third Week – January 2020
Newly digitized and available this week are a number of new materials including more issues of the Gaelic American newspaper, additional Dime Novel and Story Paper issues, and the Historical Marker application for the Philadelphia Church of the ...
Trial Access to the Online Egyptological Bibliography Now Available
By Jutta Seibert For a limited time, Falvey Memorial Library has access to the Online Egyptological Bibliography, the premier research tool of Egyptologists. It indexes all types of publications in the field, including journal articles, books, book ...
A New Year and a New PubMed
By Sarah Hughes The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is replacing the long-standing version of PubMed with a newly redesigned and more intuitive version of the database. The new PubMed is now live and can be found on Falvey’s Databases A to ...
Grad Students: Beat the Writing Blues
By Daniella Snyder I’m Daniella Snyder, a second-year graduate student at Villanova University, and your ‘Cat in Falvey Library’s Stacks. I’ll be posting about academics–from research to study habits and everything in between–and ...
Access the U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library, Courtesy of the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
BY MERRILL STEIN Did you know? HeinOnline, a robust legal database, now offers a new collection: U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library. The collection, organized based on the four affected Presidents, brings together a variety of documents, both ...
Asimov at 100…Get to Know a Science Fiction Giant
By Shawn Proctor This month marks the centenary of the birth* of one science fiction’s founding figures, Isaac Asimov.** His prose and letters not only set the direction for the genre’s fiction, but Asimov’s mind also popularized ...
A Look at New Cambridge Histories Added in 2019
By Jutta Seibert The Cambridge Histories Online collection has crossed the 350-volume threshold in the past year with the addition of 16 new volumes. The popular platform houses nearly all the Cambridge History series, except for the first three ...
Villanova Basketball Alum’s MLK Artifact
By Michelle Callaghan (National Park Service Digital Image Archives) Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I have a dream” speech on August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. ...