By Kallie Stahl Roberta Pierce joined Access Services as the Access and Collections Coordinator in the fall. Focusing on resource sharing, Pierce assists patrons with Interlibrary loan (ILL) requests, specifically through E-ZBorrow and ILLiad ...

A host of new content is available for reading and study this week. Notable materials include: 41 issues of the rare newspaper “Franklin’s Miscellany” from 1838, over 20 more issues of the Gaelic American newspaper, and the book by ...

By Kelly McMahon This week, I was struck by the timelessness of this 1993 op-ed from The Villanovan. Peter Shauger writes a scathingly hilarious article about phones acting as a “vehicle for stupidity,” and argues that telephones, which ...

By Daniella Snyder I’m Daniella Snyder, a 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 how the ...

By Linda Hauck Through March 15, 2020, the Library is running a trial to Westlaw, which is most well known as a research database for legal materials. It offers access to US primary law, including judicial cases, state and federal legislative ...

  This recording is of curators Beaudry Rae Allen, Preservation and Digital Archivist, and Emma Poley, Theatre MA ’21, prepping materials for the new Spring Exhibit, “Be Not Afraid of Greatness: Celebrating the History of Villanova ...

Newly digitized this week are a number of rare materials including issues of newspaper issues of limited availability, more dime novels and story paper issues, more Villanova basketball brochures, annual programs from the Friendly Sons of St. ...

Happy Valentine’s Day, Wildcats! Looking for love? Then find your favorite literary lovebirds in the word search below! Download and print from here, or pick one up at the library’s front desk. Joanne Quinn ’15 MA, ’84 CLAS is Director ...

By Kallie Stahl  The 22nd Annual Villanova Literary Festival begins Thursday, Feb. 20! A reception and book signing with the author will follow each reading. All events begin at 7 p.m. The festival, co-sponsored by the English Department, the ...