Falvey Library Blogs
Falvey Library Celebrates Pride Month
Happy Pride! Falvey Memorial Library is celebrating Pride Month, and we invite you to celebrate along with us. It is in this spirit that we encourage the community to increase awareness about LGBTQIA+ related topics, needs, and challenges. ...
Happy Retirement to Laura Hutelmyer, Acquisitions & Electronic Resources Coordinator
Reflecting upon Laura Hutelmyer’s career at Falvey Memorial Library, Marianne Watson, Director of Resource Management and Description, described her as an integral part of Falvey’s backbone. Working in almost every area of the Library these ...
eBook available: On Time; or, Bound to Get There
Once again, a book from our Digital Library has been released as a Project Gutenberg eBook with the help of the Distributed Proofreaders project. The latest release is On Time; or, Bound to Get There, by Oliver Optic. Oliver Optic was a popular and ...
When Time Is of the Essence: Very Short Introductions
By Jutta Seibert Faculty looking for short texts to introduce students to a new subject value the Very Short Introductions (VSI) series from Oxford University Press for their clarity and brevity. The complete VSI series with close to 700 individual ...
Falvey Scholars 2021: Annelise Laughlin
BY SHAWN PROCTOR Welcome to part 3 of a 7-part series featuring the 2021 Falvey Scholars. Read more about them every Monday and in the upcoming issue of Mosaic: the Library’s bi-annual publication. Falvey Memorial Library is honored to announce ...
PA GOAL Grants for Open Educational Resources (OER)
The second cycle of applications for PA GOAL grants encouraging open and affordable course materials in Pennsylvania opened on June 2. These grants are funded by the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund. They present a promising ...
Content Roundup – First week – June 2021
This week just a few new digital materials for your review, including additional 2021 undergraduate honors theses, more story paper issues and a few Dime Novels. Dime Novel and Popular Literature Fiction The artist’s love / by Emma D.E.N. ...
Welcome Back, Brood X Cicadas—Looking Back to Past Emergences
The television show Friends and Bennifer (the moniker used to refer to Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s relationship) aren’t the only things returning after 17 years. The Brood X-cicadas, also known as the Great Eastern Brood, are ...
Celebrating Faculty Adopting Open Educational Resources (OER)
The Affordable Materials Project celebrated the work of five faculty members who adopted open educational resources (OER) in the 2020–21 academic year. OER are free, accessible, and openly licensed textbooks. Alexander Diaz Lopez, PhD, ...