Because Films on Demand was experiencing some streaming glitches last Fall, our trial has been extended.  It’s running smoothly now, so give it a try.

Start out the new year with some new books! See the highlights below, or browse the list of new books of particular interest to communication faculty and students.

Film and stereotype: A challenge for cinema and theory
by Jorg Schweinitz; translated by Laura Schleussner
Columbia University Press
2011

Risk: A very short introduction
by Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany
Oxford University Press
2011
Check out all the Very Short Introductions available at Falvey!

Mediated girlhoods: New explorations of girls’ media culture
edited by Mary Celeste Kearney
Peter Lang
2011
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Page one: Inside the New York Times and the future of journalism
edited by David Folkenflik
PublicAffairs
2011
Keep an eye on our collection for the DVD documentary, which will be arriving soon.

Foundations of community journalism
edited by Bill Reader and John A. Hatcher
SAGE Publications
2012

Lecturer in Political Theory
University of Leeds – Education, Social Sciences & Law

Job Summary

You will be a full member of the School of Politics and International Studies. As a research active academic, you will maintain a strong research and publication record, and contribute to the School’s research activities and research culture. You will deliver undergraduate and taught postgraduate modules in appropriate subject areas, as well as supervising BA and MA dissertations; and recruit and supervise PhD candidates. You will also undertake a normal load of administrative duties within the School. You will have research expertise in any of the core areas of political theory, including the history of political thought, continental political philosophy and analytical political theory. You will be involved in the research, teaching and administration of the School as well as contributing to related activities within the school and the wider faculty. You will work within University values and policies which are designed to promote dignity, diversity and inclusiveness.

University Grade 7 (£32,751 – £35,788 p.a.) or University Grade 8 (£36,862 – £44,016 p.a.)

Informal enquiries to Head of School, Professor Kevin Theakston email K.Theakston@leeds.ac.uk, tel +44 (0)113 343 4391 or Academic Group Leader Dr. David Seawright, email D.Seawright@leeds.ac.uk, tel +44 (0)113 343 6898

Closing Date: 19 January 2012

We are now accepting submissions for ASAGE’s Spring/Summer 2012 issue.
The submission deadline for this issue is March 1, 2012, although submissions
(particularly for book reviews and dissertation abstracts) are also accepted on a
rolling basis throughout the year.

Guidelines:

ASAGE accepts papers on any topic in aesthetics, written by graduate
students who have not yet completed final requirements for the doctoral
degree. Submissions should be under 3000 words (although exceptions may be
made at the editor’s discretion, to a maximum of 5000 words, particularly in
the case of historical papers). They must be accompanied by an abstract of
no more than 250 words and a word count.

Book reviews and dissertation abstracts are also needed, as are article
reviewers.

Please see www.asage.org for more detailed information on submitting an
article, book review, dissertation abstract or reviewer application.

You may also feel free to contact me with any questions.

Best regards,
Aili
Aili Bresnahan, JD, MA
PhD Candidate, Philosophy, Temple University
Editor, American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-journal
www.asage.org
www.artistsmatter.com

By Linda Hauck

Online access to the Philadelphia Business Journal is now available via Falvey. This weekly is a key public source of business intelligence about our region. The Business Journal publishes 39 additional city business papers and we have access to those as well.  Job Listings and local business directories are handy features that come with the subscription.

(Linda Hauck maintains the Business Reference blog. Check it out for the latest business resources news.)

If you will be requiring your students to read scholarly articles this semester, please consider sending them to the library to find the full text themselves (assuming the article is included in the library’s holdings). Rather than sending the students a PDF via email or Blackboard, or simply distributing a printout in class, allowing the students to search out the article on their own has several advantages.

Good for students

Allowing students to search the library’s resources to find the full text of an article from the citation builds familiarity with the library and its website. This exercise also demonstrates that the library is a valuable place to find scholarly resources. As an added bonus, your students will learn to interpret a citation. Finding the full text is good practice for scholarly research!

To help with this task, we provide detailed instructions for finding the full text using an article citation on our Finding Full Text Guide. Feel free to include this link on your syllabus. Librarians are also available to help by phone, email, chat, or in person.

Good for the Library

Sending students to the library’s website for full text articles being used in your class helps the library keep better statistics. We regularly evaluate our collection to ensure that it is meeting the needs of faculty and students. If you distribute a printout of an article to the students of your class, our records will only indicate one download from that journal, although it is being used by many more patrons. Allowing students to download their own articles is one way of indicating that a particular journal is important to the curriculum.

I’m pleased to announce the addition of online access to the Philadelphia Business Journal.  This is great news as this weekly is a key public source of business intelligence about our region.  The Business Journal publishes 39 additional city business papers and we have access to those as well.   Job Listings and local business directories are handy features that come with the subscription.

Robert (Rob) LeBlanc, a Havertown native, recently joined Falvey in the newly created position of First-Year Experience Librarian. In this position he will work with the Augustine and Culture Seminar department and Villanova Learning Communities,  providing outreach, instruction and research support while “creating new ways to deliver instruction” to first-year students.

Rob will also serve on two humanities liaison teams: philosophy/theology/humanities with Bente Polites as team coordinator and English/romance languages and literature/theatre with Judith Olsen as team coordinator.

Rob has a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from Rutgers University, a master’s degree in English literature from Duquesne University and a master’s degree in library and information science from Drexel University. Before coming to the University he was an instruction and outreach services librarian at Albright College in Reading (Pa.).

“I am looking forward to working with staff both in and outside the Library to embed library services into the freshman curriculum,” Rob says.

His hobbies are varied: photography, reading, music (he plays the harmonica, hammered dulcimer and “a bit of slide guitar”), video gaming and Wing Chun kung fu (Stop by to ask Rob what that is!).

Contributed by Alice Bampton

Kimberley Bugg joined Falvey at the end of November as the Information and Research Assistance team leader, replacing Jacqueline (Jackie) Mirabile who retired last spring.

Kimberley will be responsible for training and scheduling the library information staff who are available during most hours when the Library is open. Information staff  provide basic assistance in the use of library resources and refer questions to research consultation librarians when additional assistance is needed.

Falvey maintains a 10,000 volume print reference collection of general and subject specific sources as well as over 350 online reference sources. In addition it provides access to more than 250 indexing, abstracting and full-text databases available on the Web. The IRA team provides assistance in using these print and online sources.

Kimberley, a native of Atlanta, comes to Villanova University from Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, where she was emerging technologies coordinator. Previously she had been the assistant head of information and research services at Robert W. Woodruff Library in the Atlanta University Center.

She has a bachelor’s degree in communication and accounting from Georgia State University, Atlanta; a master’s degree in library science from North Carolina Central University, Durham, N.C.; and a master of liberal arts degree from Clayton State University, Morrow, Ga.

Her hobbies are reading, watching reality television, eating and yoga.

Kimberley said, “I am excited to join the Falvey Memorial Library team. The Library has a long tradition of creating so many cutting-edge innovations and I am honored to be a part of that.”

Article and photograph by Alice Bampton