“Poetic License” is now on display on the Library’s first floor. The exhibit features poems selected from Falvey Library’s Distinctive Collections. Seven curators were given “poetic license” to curate an exhibit case; selecting specific materials to tell a unique story. Rebecca Oviedo, Distinctive Collections Archivist, focused on American Dialect Poetry, “a style of writing that attempts to replicate the sound and speech patterns of people from a particular region or social group.” Pictured above is Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy” from his book Lyrics of the Hearthside (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1899). “This poem later inspired the title to Maya Angelou’s autobiography, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).”

Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication and Marketing Specialist at Falvey Memorial Library.

Beaudry Allen, Digital and Preservation Archivist. Photo courtesy of Ethan Shea, Graduate Assistant Falvey Library.

Rebecca Oviedo, Distinctive Collections Archivist. Photo courtesy of Ethan Shea, Graduate Assistant Falvey Library.

Linda Hauck, Business Librarian. Photos courtesy of Kallie Stahl, Communication & Marketing Specialist.

Thanks to everyone who attended the 2023 Freedom School yesterday! Falvey Library staff celebrated the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  with two workshops focusing on various topics surrounding MLK’s vision and work:

• “Nurturing Social and Economic Justice on Campus: Affordable Materials Project” by Linda Hauck, Business Librarian, and Amy Spare, Associate Director for Law Library Services & Legal Research Instructor.
• “Students Call for Divestment: Student Activism and their Records” by Beaudry Allen, Digital and Preservation Archivist, University Archives, and Rebecca Oviedo, Distinctive Collections Archivist.

Gina Duffy, Communication & Marketing Program Manager, and Kallie Stahl, Communication & Marketing Specialist, were also in attendance sharing helpful library recourses with attendees.

Gina Duffy, Communication & Marketing Program Manager, and Kallie Stahl, Communication & Marketing Specialist. Photo courtesy of Ethan Shea, Graduate Assistant Falvey Library.

Campus is calm (and bright) this evening. Looking forward to your return, Wildcats! Enjoy the last few days of winter break.

Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication and Marketing Specialist at Falvey Library. 

Photo courtesy of Shawn Proctor, Communication and Marketing Program Manager.

Falvey staff members Brian Warren, Library Technology Developer (second row, second from right), and John Banionis, Metrics and Assessment Librarian (bottom row, first from left), along with Nicole Subik, Director, Learning Support Services (second row, first from right), sing joyful carols to all those in attendance at the University’s staff Christmas party on Thursday, Dec. 15. Interested in joining Villanova’s Faculty-Staff Choir? The volunteer choir accepts singers of all ability levels and interests. For questions or more information please email Betsy Springuel (elizabeth.springuel@villanova.edu). Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Looking for more holiday tunes? Check out this playlist by Olivia Dunn ’23.

Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication and Marketing Specialist at Falvey Library. Her favorite holiday albums—The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait and A Swingin’ Little Christmas by Jane Lynch, Kate Flannery, Tim Davis and The Tony Guerrero Quintet.

Thanks to all the Wildcats that stopped by Falvey’s Semi-Annual Stress Busting Open House yesterday. Donut stress about finals—Good luck, Nova Nation!

Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication and Marketing Specialist at Falvey Library. Photos courtesy of Stahl and Shawn Proctor, Communication and Marketing Program Manager.

Photo courtesy of Kallie Stahl, Communication and Marketing Specialist.

Thank you to everyone who donated to the Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week (HHAW) food drive. There’s still time to drop off non-perishable food items. Just look for the donation box on Falvey’s first floor (in front of the HHAW display).

Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication and Marketing Specialist at Falvey Memorial Library.

Photo courtesy of Kallie Stahl.

Joanne Quinn, her daughter Tracey, and golden retriever Duffy, supporting Chase Utley.

Annie Stockmal and her Dad at the Phillies game.

Shawn Proctor, Kallie Stahl, Gina Duffy, and Annie Stockmal supporting the Phillies!

Ethan Shea repping the 2022 World Series hat.

We have some Phanatics at Falvey Library! Good luck to the Philadelphia Phillies as they open the 2022 World Series tonight against the Houston Astros.

Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication and Marketing Specialist at Falvey Memorial Library. Stahl is a Cleveland baseball fan, but she will be rooting for the Phillies in 2022 World Series.

Campus is quiet this afternoon. Have a great fall break, Nova Nation!

Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication and Marketing Specialist at Falvey Memorial Library.

Jose Antonio Vargas snaps a photo with Luciana MacNamara, a Staff Psychologist at the University Counseling Center.

Thank you to everyone who came to the 2022 One Book Villanova talk and book signing with Jose Antonio Vargas on Wednesday, Sept. 28. If you were unable to attend, please join us on Tuesday, Oct. 25, from 1-2:15 p.m. in Falvey Library’s Speakers’ Corner for an interactive luncheon discussion on this year’s One Book Villanova selection, Vargas’ Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen.

Copies of the memoir are available at Falvey Memorial Library.

Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication and Marketing Specialist at Falvey Memorial Library.