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Technical Difficulty – How to Handle Security Messages

by Demian Katz

Sometimes due to technical difficulties, the library website may report security warnings. When this happens, you may wish to contact us to be sure everything is okay. If you are comfortable proceeding, our instructions for both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox will help you. They have been written as a separate web page called “Bypass Security Warnings.”


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Africa in the 1960s: Visiting scholars share first-person perspective

By Alexandra Edwards

Falvey Memorial Library is excited to announce a lecture by visiting scholars Ambassador Thomas Melady, PhD, and Margaret Badum Melady, PhD. Ambassador and Dr. Melady will discuss their recently published book, Ten African Heroes: the Sweep of Independence in Black Africa, on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, at 9:00 a.m. in the library first floor lounge.

The book documents the authors’ own experiences of a turbulent time in African history when 10 men chose a non-violent approach as a means of creating change and seeking independence. In particular, it emphasizes the role that Christianity played in the actions of the men.

This isn’t Ambassador Melady’s  first visit to the University; on May 16, 1966, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate during Commencement.

Since then, he served as an American ambassador under three presidents and as a sub-cabinet officer for a fourth, and remains active in foreign affairs and international relations. He was appointed Ambassador to Burundi in 1969, Senior Advisor to the U.S. delegation to the UN General Assembly in 1970, and Ambassador to Uganda from 1972 to 1973. In 1989 he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Holy See. Since 2002, he is Senior Diplomat in residence at The Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Margaret Badum Melady served as president of The American University of Rome from 1997 to 2003. Dr. Melady is a former member of the faculties of St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Conn., and the State University of New York in Oswego. She was the first woman promoted to an executive position in public affairs at Stauffer Chemical Company, where she worked in both public relations and governmental affairs. Her most current position is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Catholic Distance University.

This event is free and open to the public. A book sale and signing will follow the presentation.

Newspaper image: The Villanovan, Vol. 41. No. 23, June 24, 1966, courtesy of the Villanova University Digital Library


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Falvey Memorial Library Presents "Get It For You" – A Music Video

After months of planning and preparation, including a search for the finest talent Villanova has to offer, we are proud to present a music video that celebrates the library’s service and commitment to the future.

Please join us in congratulating the students, staff and faculty who fearlessly contributed their energy to the project. Our special thanks go to Jeffrey Eisenberg, Outreach intern, whose considerable knowledge about video production was invaluable.

The video also features a special guest, Big Planzz, our renovation project “mascot.”  Don’t forget to attend the Library Open House on Sept. 13 & 14 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. and see the Big Planzz for yourself!


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"Contested Space in the Holy Land" is Topic of World Religions Day

To highlight World Religions Day and the related events taking place on campus on Tuesday, Sept. 13, Joanne Quinn, design specialist, created a display on the kiosk near the library entrance.

The exhibit, which will continue into October, features an Israeli flag, a number of books about the “Contested Space in the Holy Land” and small “walls” with designs and captions.

Posters advertise an information fair—11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m in the Connelly Center’s atrium (on the ground floor); a lecture titled “What Israelis and Palestinians Are Saying” presented by J.A. Hull, a 2011 Villanova graduate; and Frank Galgano, PhD’s discussion: “Contested Space in the Holy Land.”

Dr. Galgano is an associate professor and chair of Villanova University’s Department of Geography and the Environment. Hull’s presentation will be at 3 p.m. in the Library; Dr. Galgano’s will be at 4:00 p.m. in the Connelly Center’s cinema.

Contributed by Alice Bampton and Gerald Dierkes


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The Digital Library: now more social!

Our Special Collections and main scanning lab have been restricted to limited access due to renovations in the library, but of course we’re still available online! And over the summer, we became a lot more social! Social media, that is. The icons and links for all of our social media accounts now appear on the Digital Library home page, but here’s a breakdown of the types of things posted to these accounts:

Twitter: Random selections from our collections as well as interesting news related to digital libraries.

Facebook: News and highlights from the Digital Library.

Tumblr: We had a Tumblr account before, but it was languishing for a while, so I’m refreshing it now. This is for slightly longer posts than Twitter or Facebook, but still shorter than here on the Blue Electrode blog, hence the Tumblr is called Blue Electrode Lite.

Flickr: Again we’ve had Flickr for a while now and I have been updating it (semi)regularly, but I just wanted to link to it again with our other social media accounts. I pick random pages from inside longer books, so this is a good way to discover some interesting content you might not know about unless you paged through an entire volume. You can also interact with the images here by adding tags, notes, or comments.

While I’m here, I’ll also mention that we have a Facebook and Twitter for our open source digital library administration application, VuDL, as well.

All of these accounts are curated by me (Laura) and I’ve noted that on all of the account profiles. I like people to know there’s a friendly face behind the institutional/product name on the accounts!

Please follow along with one or more of these accounts and feel free to ask questions or post comments! (The same applies right here on the Blue Electrode, too, of course!) And if I can’t answer your question myself, I’ll find someone who can. Social media is for conversations, so I would love to hear from you!


Join the conversation! [image source]


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Win an iPad, a Kindle or a Nook! Free USB thumb drives too. Come to our Open House on Sept. 13 & 14

Tuesday & Wednesday, Sept. 13 & 14,  from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm.  Grab some cookies, pens and other free stuff. USB thumb drive give-aways each day to the first 100 students.

Visit the petting zoo and play with the iPad, Kindle and Nook. Then enter your name in the drawing to win one! (You must be a registered VU student.)

Last year Emily Jennings, Estefania Espinoza and Matthew Rinaldi were the grand prize winners at the Falvey Open House.

Graphic Design by Joanne Quinn

 


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Renovation Review: New Web Page Unveiled

In order to give readers a comprehensive view of the Library renovations, we have created a dedicated Renovation News web page that will be periodically updated with new photos and videos of our progress. An exhibit will also be mounted in the first floor glass cases near the entrance showing a time line and giving information on planned phases of construction.


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Renovation Review: Cranes & Elevators

If you’ve been following our renovation updates, then you know that the second floor of the Library has been completely gutted in the space of one week. Marble slabs were removed, walls were disassembled, and the elevator was blocked off to keep curiosity at bay (and our patrons safe). Now begins new construction – wiring, plumbing, lighting and ventilation – cranes will lift the building materials from the loading dock and through a second floor window. We ask that patrons stay clear of the second floor stairwell doors and be aware that delays might be experienced when using the elevator.

And don’t forget, the books that were once housed on the second floor can be found in Falvey West, which patrons can enter from the first floor near the print center. Feel free to ask for help at the front desk!

Photo by Alice Bampton


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ICPSR Records Now Searchable in the Catalog

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) records are now searchable in Falvey Library’s catalog, using the Search tab.

To perform a search, click the Search tab, then the Books & More tab.  Type your search phrase: ICPSR + keywords.  For instance, see the results of a search for ICPSR crime women.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse.


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