After much hard work by Director of Technology Development, Demian Katz, Villanova’s Digital Library has the capacity to host video files in preservation formats and provide in-line viewing. The first work to be made available by this new advancement is the documentary film The Red Hand: Stories of Joseph O’Neill & Emily Quinn which tells the story of the extended Irish O’Neill family’s Philadelphia legacy, part of the O’Neill Family Collection.

Future moving picture offering that are in the works include – recently reformatted to digital media – films of campus life; campus events; and born-digital videos. Closed-captioning is currently only available via the “old viewer” option, but work on updating the University Viewer software to permit closed-captions viewing in the primary viewer is progressing rapidly.