Here’s your daily dose of library-oriented speed-reads to start your day!

TODAY IN THE LIBRARY…

Legal Writing Guest Speaker: Erik Lillquist, Esq. 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. in room 205. Questions? Contact: michael.j.pennington@villanova.edu

Food For Thought Discussion-VITAL. Faculty is invited to join in the discussion each month features a different topic. The discussions provide a forum for networking and exchanging ideas with colleagues from across campus. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in room 204. Questions? Contact: gabriele.bauer@villanova.edu

CAVE Information Session(s). For faculty from across campus. Q&A session with a tour of the facility led by Dr. Frank Klassner. Tuesdays throughout the semester from 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in room 206. Questions? Contact: frank.klassner@villanova.edu

VSB Peer Tutor Office Hours. 6:00-7:30 p.m. in room 205. Open to all VSB students. Walk-in study sessions. (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays throughout the semester.) Questions? Contact: patricia.burdo@villanova.edu

CHARLIE HEDBO OÙ EST CHARLIE?

Charlie Hedbo Où est Charlie? A conversation about the recent events in Paris, for the entire university community. Thursday Jan. 29, 5:30-7:00 p.m. in Speakers’ Corner. ACS Approved. Faculty, staff and students are invited to participate in an open conversation about the recent events in Paris. Following brief remarks by several members of the faculty, the moderated forum will be open to all. Organized by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures’ program in French and Francophone Studies and the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies.

Questions? Contact: joyce.harden@villanova.edu

ARE YOU READING ALONG WITH MARK?

He already broke Amazon with his first choice, Moises Naim’s The End of Power. Now Mark Zuckerberg has his second pick, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, one that you’ll find in Falvey’s catalog as well as through E-Z Borrow and ILL.

The Facebook founder and CEO, who has over 30 million followers, has launched a new book club on Facebook as part of a challenge to himself, for 2015, to read a new book every two weeks. Whether or not he’ll have Oprah’s golden touch remains to be seen, but you have to love someone using their influence to get folks to read.

SHAMELESS SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG ☺

Do you follow the library on YouTube? We have a great array of Falvey-produced videos old and new that are instructional and entertaining. Newcomers to the channel are archival copies of Gerald Dierkes’ Highlighter videos, which debuted last semester, featuring helpful insider tips on getting the most out of the library’s resources. View and rewind to your heart’s content!

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.” – Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

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