Falvey Library

The Falvey Library Green Office team is organizing a Freecycle event outside the Holy Grounds Café in Falvey Library on Monday, Aug. 17, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Tuesday, Aug. 18, through Friday, Aug. 21, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. We will offer office supplies, Communication and Marketing event supplies, and some furniture. Browse and enjoy a snack while shopping. Check the Rheaply platform, filtering under the tag "Falvey Library" to see some of the items that will be available. Reallocate, sell, or decommission your resources for their next, best use.

More info: library.villanova.edu/events

Falvey Library will be closed from Friday, July 31, through Sunday, Aug. 16, to support the move of 400,000 volumes to Vic Maggitti Hall. Access to the print collection will be unavailable during this time. Online resources and the "Chat with a Librarian" virtual reference service will remain available. "Pick Up and Go" service and study spaces will be temporarily available in the Villanova Law Library in Scarpa Hall.

More info: library.villanova.edu

Falvey Library Building Closure: 7/31-8/16

The Falvey Library building will be closed from Friday, July 31–Sunday, Aug. 16 in support of the 400,000-volume book move to Vic Maggitti Hall. Access to the print collection will be unavailable. Online resources and the "Chat with a Librarian" virtual reference service will be available. "Pick up and Go" service and study spaces are temporarily available in the Villanova Law Library in Scarpa Hall.

More information: library.villanova.edu

Scholarly Publishers & AI Tools: Experimentation and (Lack of) Transparency

Join Nancy Foasberg, Scholarly Communication Librarian, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, from 12-1 p.m. for a virtual workshop. Generative AI tools have found their way into the scholarly publishing industry. How are they being used so far? This workshop will look beyond policies for authors and consider how the publishers themselves are using these tools – and what that might mean for authors, reviewers, and editors.

Registration link: https://shorturl.at/QmS4f

Course Reserves: Now Accepting Requests for FALL 2026

Great news! Falvey Library is accepting course reserve requests for Fall 2026. Course reserves are designated materials made available for short-term, equitable access. Physical materials, including instructor copies, will be available at the Service Desk. Electronic resources, including articles, book chapters and streaming media, will be available in Brightspace. Due to the upcoming move, course reserve services will temporarily pause beginning Friday, July 31, and will resume on Monday, August 17, with possible delays in turnaround times. To ensure materials are available before the start of the semester, please submit requests by Thursday, July 30. Questions? Email Access Services to ask for help! ([email protected]).

Falvey Library is proud to celebrate the inspiring work of our 2026 Falvey Scholar Award winners. ⁠
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This year’s scholars brought their research to life in presentations at Falvey Library, sharing their discoveries with an audience of students, faculty, and University leadership. ⁠
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Today, we celebrate the accomplishments of Aidan Shay ’26 for his research on the effect of World Bank loan announcements under the guidance of mentors Maira Emy Reimão, PhD, The Michele and Christopher Iannaccone '91 Assistant Professor, Economics, and Christopher Kilby, PhD, James Joo-Jin Kim Endowed Chair in Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Shay's project centered on a single question: when the World Bank announces a new loan to a country, does the country's currency gain or lose value in response?

The World Bank is one of the biggest lenders to developing countries, and every loan it approves is made public. Hypothetically, this news could either strengthen a currency (assuming more foreign money will flow into the country) or weaken it (signaling that the country is in financial trouble if it needs a loan). Other researchers — primarily Dr. Kilby and Erasmus Kersting, PhD, Chair and Professor of Economics — have shown that stock markets in these countries clearly react to these announcements. So naturally, he wanted to know if currency markets do the same.
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Next year Shay will be completing a Master of Science in Finance at Villanova. This summer he is interning at Wells Fargo in Charlotte, N.C.

In the long term, Shay is interested in working in higher finance before transitioning into development finance, ideally at an institution like the IFC or the World Bank, where he can make a tangible difference and open doors for people who weren't given them.

"Giving back to my community, wherever that ends up being, matters a great deal to me; I want to provide opportunities, the same kind as what was provided for me. I'm also interested in development or securities law and may attend law school down the road," he adds.
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Learn more: https://blog.library.villanova.edu/2026/07/08/falvey-scholar-aidan-shay-26-analyzes-foreign-aids-impact/

Falvey Library Loans During the Transition to Vic Maggitti Hall

During the fall semester, Falvey Library will have several service changes as it prepares for the move to Vic Maggitti Hall. If you have books on loan, don’t worry. No action is needed. If you have checked out something that isn’t due before November, please hold onto it and return it to the new building. Due dates for interlibrary loan books vary and are imposed by the lending library. Renew books online or email Access Services to ask for help ([email protected]).

Today, Villanova University joins the nation in commemorating 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Click the link in our bio to read more about this historic milestone and explore how communities like ours have helped preserve the story of American freedom.
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Falvey Library is proud to celebrate the inspiring work of our 2026 Falvey Scholar Award winners.

This year’s scholars brought their research to life in presentations at Falvey Library, sharing their discoveries with an audience of students, faculty, and University leadership.

Today, we celebrate the accomplishments of Deana Yuan ’26 as a Falvey Scholar for her work on 3D printer sensors with Bo Li, PhD, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering. These versatile sensors have applications for many industries, including health monitoring, robotics, and biomedical diagnostics.

Yuan focused on designing flexible strain sensors—they detect movement or deformation by converting mechanical strain into an electrical signal, typically through changes in resistance—using a combination of 3D printing and nanomaterials.

She used a 3D printing technique called Direct Ink Writing to create flexible polymer structures, and then applied a thin layer of graphene, a conductive nanomaterial, onto the surface using an acoustic-assisted coating process. Instead of mixing large amounts of conductive material throughout the entire structure, this approach concentrates it onto the surface, making the sensors more efficient and cost-effective.

Falvey played an important role in supporting both Yuan's research process and her academic development. As someone working on an engineering-focused project outside of her primary discipline, she initially found it challenging to navigate unfamiliar terminology, databases, and research conventions.

"The Library staff helped bridge that gap by guiding me toward the most relevant databases, showing me how to refine search strategies, and helping me locate high-quality, peer-reviewed sources," Yuan says. "Their support made the research process feel much more approachable and allowed me to engage more confidently with scientific literature."

https://blog.library.villanova.edu/2026/06/23/falvey-scholar-deana-yuan-26-advances-sensor-technology-to-advance-medical-care/

On June 19, the Villanova community, along with the United States, commemorates Juneteenth. The University added Juneteenth to its list of holidays in 2020 to allow staff, faculty, and students to observe this important day in the nation’s history with family and friends.

A portmanteau of the words June and nineteenth, Juneteenth references June 19, 1865, the day on which the news that all slaves are free reached Galveston, Texas. The Civil War had been effectively over for more than two months, but the news had not yet reached the far corners of the country. The following year African Americans in Texas began celebrating the end of slavery on June 19 of every year.

Juneteenth is also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, (Black) Independence Day, and Jubilee Day.

Not unexpectedly, Texas was the first state to officially recognize Juneteenth as a holiday, first by proclamation in 1937 followed by legislation in 1979. Other states followed suit, among them Pennsylvania in 2019. On June 17, 2020, President Joseph Biden elevated Juneteenth to a federal holiday, one of only eleven, by signing the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.

Join Villanova and Falvey staff and faculty in commemorating and celebrating this special day!

For those still looking for an inspiring read for this summer, take a look at Falvey's website: https://blog.library.villanova.edu/2026/06/19/learn-about-and-celebrate-juneteenth/

Caption: Emancipation Day Celebration band, June 19, 1900, Texas. University of North Texas Libraries. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.