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

ATTENTION FACULTY…

FINAL DAY to Submit Falvey Scholars Award Nominations! 

If you haven’t already, please consider nominating an eligible student for a Falvey Scholar award. The Falvey Scholar awards are given to seniors who have completed exemplary (and publicly presentable) scholarship or research during their undergraduate careers at Villanova. Nominations must be submitted by TODAY Tuesday, March 31. Interested in nominating a student? Submit a nomination.

TODAY IN THE LIBRARY…

APA Demystified. 4:00-4:45 p.m. in room 207. Come learn the basics of citing all types of documents: books, journal articles, and websites. Questions? Contact: barbara.quintiliano@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

IT TAKES COURAGE…
…to grow up and become who you really are. Are you a fan of poet e.e. cummings? Read an article about the newly-illustrated “celebration” of the poet’s life, Enormous Smallness.

FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK

If you give our page a like on Facebook, you’ll be so in the know. Not only do we share links to all the goings-on of our blog, but we also post announcements and share very cool content from all around the internet!

THAT NEW BOOK SMELL: NEW HOLDINGS AT FALVEY

To give you an example of what you might find in the book An introduction to electronic art through the teaching of Jacques Lacan: strangest thing, I turned to chapter one on “Bodies” and found the following description of a QuickTime movie by Michael Rees. “Each coupled figure in the representation is poised between a single body with symmetrical elements and a hybrid of two, or perhaps four bodies, fused as conjoined twins.” It was the strangest thing.

NOM NOM NOM!
The Elite Eight of #NomNomNomatology have been chosen! Be sure to vote for the winningest foods in some intensely delicious match-ups right here, or vote in person at the front desk in Falvey!

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.” – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

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