Falvey Library Blogs
Falvey Memorial Library Hours: December 2020–January 2021
Electronic collections (articles, e-books, and more!) are accessible through our website 24/7. Please visit the Fall Semester FAQ Page for more details. Click here for printable calendar. Dec. 1–6 (Fall Semester Hours) Service Hours: 9 a.m.– 5. ...
TBT: Preserving Memories
We’re just about to kick off the spring semester, which also means a time to make more memories and reminisce on the old. One great way of looking back on and preserving memories is to make a scrapbook! Falvey has a digitally archived ...
Cat in the Stax: Resolutions Reimagined
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that sometimes things happen and absolutely nothing goes according to plan. This lesson is something that we need to internalize and remember going into 2021 and beyond. Take a minute, stop reading, and think ...
Attention Faculty and Academic Support Staff: Register for Workshop on Course Materials Assistance Programs at Villanova on Jan. 21!
By Regina Duffy Existing and emerging financial limitations, COVID-19, and the pivot to online learning has exposed challenges many students face securing the course materials they need to succeed and thrive. Villanova faculty and academic ...
Available for proofreading: Nimble Ike, the Trick Ventriloquist
Quite a few years ago, we helped to create a Project Gutenberg edition of a dime novel called The Twin Ventriloquists; or, Nimble Ike and Jack the Juggler: A Tale of Strategy and Jugglery, which told the tale of a team-up between ventriloquist ...
IF YOU HAVE BOOKS ON LOAN AND ARE WORRIED ABOUT RETURNING THEM, DON’T STRESS
We recognize the University holiday closure and COVID-19 pandemic will prevent many students and faculty from returning loaned books. Here is what you need to know: LOANS AND BORROWING The Library has stopped assessing overdue fines on Falvey ...
Welcome to 1925 / 2021
This year, 2021, sees the release of works created in 1925 into the public domain in the United States. Many of these titles are of significant literary merit including F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Sinclair Lewis’s ...
Available for proofreading: A Lad of Mettle
While many of our past Distributed Proofreaders projects have come from American dime novels, our latest is a distant cousin to those books: a British yellowback edition of Nat Gould’s juvenile novel, A Lad of Mettle. Like dime novels, ...
Register for a Workshop on Course Materials Assistance Programs at Villanova
By Regina Duffy This January, the Affordable Materials Project (AMP) will be sponsoring a virtual workshop aimed at helping faculty and academic support staff learn about course materials assistance programs offered at Villanova University, ...