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Blueprints: Falvey LibraryContents: October 1999
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The catalogers in Technical Services use OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center, to quickly and efficiently process these materials. Once an item is classified using the Library of Congress Classification scheme, the item is added to Villanova’s Voyager database. A call number label and "Villanova University Falvey Library" property stamp is then placed on the item prior to its being sent to its proper location in the Library. |
 Front to back: Roberta Rosci, Donna Chadderton and Mary Heyman catalog books for VUCat. Mary also catalogs serials, Roberta assists with collection development and Donna trains student assistants to label books. |
To locate items that have been recently acquired and cataloged, a VUCat search can be performed. Technical Services’ catalogers are responsible for keeping the information in VUCat current and accurate. Patrons who encounter a database error can report it either electronically or by completing an error report form obtained from Technical Services.
Year in and year out, Falvey’s Technical Services department is very productive. For the fiscal year 1998-1999, the department added 22,740 new monographs, 188 new periodical titles, 184 new microforms and 414 new audio-visual titles to Villanova’s collection.
The department consists of five librarians, eight support staff and four student assistants. Several librarians and support staff work in Technical Services as well as in other departments. Members of the department are Taras Ortynsky, head, Technical Services (ext. 94282); Barbara Bores, Acquisitions librarian (ext. 94281); David Burke, Serials librarian (ext. 94282); Michael Foight, Special Collections librarian/Business Information specialist(ext. 95185); Darren Poley, Catalog/Reference librarian (ext. 96371); Donna Chadderton, database technician (ext. 94458); Barbara Cullen, database technician (ext. 96003);Mary Heyman, database technician, Serials (ext. 94458); Rita McCabe, database technician (ext. 94281); Marie Roman, database technician (ext. 94281); Roberta Rosci, database technician/Collection Development (ext. 94458); Virginia Reedy, accounts processing and database technician (ext. 94281); and Jacqueline Smith, database technician/reference assistant (ext. 94281).
Besides performing their everyday responsibilities, many of the members of Technical Services are active in professional organizations and University and community service.
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A behind the scenes view of the Technical Services department. Student assistant Jennifer Barresi prepares the books for the shelf , while Donna Chadderton catalogs books. |
This article continues the series highlighting the various departments in Falvey
Memorial Library.
by Susan Markley
Running behind schedule? No time to visit the Library and retrieve that special article? Long lines at the photocopiers? Heavy snow in the forecast? Let us help you reduce the demands on your busy work schedule by simply making use of the Periodical department’s new document delivery service.
In our continuing effort to improve and expand our services, the Periodical department has instituted a trial program for Villanova faculty. If you need a photocopy of an article from a journal in our collection, it can be requested by an electronic request form via the Falvey Library home page (www.villanova.edu/library). Simply click on "Request Forms" followed by Faculty Request for a Journal Article from the Falvey Collection. Fill in the request form and submit.
Photocopy requests can also be made in person or by phone [9-4277] for this new service. All requests will be acted upon within 24 hours. Photocopies will be sent directly to your office through campus mail.
Requests for journal articles not in our collection should continue to be referred to Interlibrary Loan. To eliminate wasted time and staff effort, please check our holdings in VUCat before submitting your request to the Periodical department, and don’t forget to include the call number for each journal title requested. We will accept up to five requests per day for each faculty member.
Remember, this free delivery service applies only to faculty needing journal articles already in the Falvey collection.
Let us know how you like this new service or if you have any suggestions to improve it.
Susan Markley is head of the Periodical Department.
by Darren Poley
As mentioned in the last "FLASH Lights" column the Catholic Periodicals and Literature Index (CPLI) is one of the many CD-ROM tools available to Falvey patrons, but this is by no means the only electronic resource available for theological research. One can access a cornucopia of tools for research in the area of religious studies, many of them through FLASH, Falvey Memorial Library’s web page. Under the heading E-Resources in Theology & Religious Studies on FLASH exists a wealth of research information and in some cases the full content one is seeking.
When looking for a journal article one may not only use CPLI as stated last month, but also the ATLA Religion Database. This electronic database, produced by the American Theological Library Association, indexes over 600 international journals for articles and book reviews, as well as multi-author works. So if you are looking for an essay in a book this is a great tool for research. Expanded Academic Index, another electronic database which is broader in its scope, features citations, some abstracts, and in some cases the full-text of the articles themselves from more than 960 scholarly and general interest publications.
Another great place to search is the database called Humanities Abstracts. This electronic index covering a range of humanities disciplines has not only citations but abstracts too, as the name indicates.
If one is interested in humanities scholarship including religion another tool is the Arts & Humanities Search. This database is an electronic citation index whereby one can trace what works are cited and the direction current research is moving in more than 1,300 of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals.
If one wishes to find articles in humanities journals online JSTOR and Project Muse are the places to go. One religious studies journal available online is the Journal of Early Christian Studies. This official publication of the North American Patristics Society is an excellent example of scholarship which is now made accessible through FLASH.
Demonstrating a different approach to E-Resources, now even whole collections of material can be accessed in a moment and electronically searched for the pieces of data one needs. Two interesting examples are Patrologia Latina and the Library of Christian Texts. Both are listed under Index Databases but they really are so much more.
The link to Patrologia Latina is a portal to searching the complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s collection of early Christian texts of the same name. The Library of Christian Texts is a CD-ROM product available on a single user basis and must be requested for at the Reference desk. Nevertheless this amazing tool contains full-text of almost all items in the Corpus Christanorum Series Latina and Continuatio Medievalis, together with the complete works of some major authors of the Early Church.
So, whether you are just beginning to understand the methods of scholarship or on the path of revealing apocryphal material which will greatly contribute to research in the area of theology and religious studies, Falvey Memorial Library has embraced the latest technology to bring the tools of research to your workstation or laptop.
How then do you gain access to these great resources and electronic tools from Falvey’s web page? The most straightforward way to get to resources made available on FLASH for the study of religion is to go down the list of new subject pages under E-Resources by Subject and select "Theology & Religious Studies." Access to research tools is designed both to be intuitive and user friendly, while providing the patrons’s of Falvey Memorial Library the maximum amount of accessibility to the myriad of electronic resources available via FLASH.
Darren Poley, a reference and cataloging librarian, serves as one of the liaisons to
the theology and religious studies department
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Attending the presentation ceremony on Sept. 20 honoring the publication of Augustine Through the Ages were associate editor Dr. James J. O’Donnell, University of Pennsylvania; contributors Dr. David J. Marshall, Villanova University; Rev. Daniel E. Doyle, O.S.A., Villanova University; Rev. Thomas F. Martin, O.S.A., Villanova University; general editor Rev. Allan D. Fitzgerald, O.S.A., Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Rome; contributor Dr. John A. Doody, Villanova University, and associate editor Dr. Frederick Van Fleteren, LaSalle University. |
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Rev. Allan D. Fitzgerald, O.S.A., discusses the creation of Augustine Through the Ages at the "Falvey Faculty Book Talk." |
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Elizabeth Opalka, a first year student in the Core Humanities Seminar, completes her Quest tutorial on one of Falvey Library’s workstations. A student of Dr. Christopher Daly, Elizabeth uses the framework of Quest to search for her topic, Saint Paul, in a subject encyclopedia, books and journal articles. Students enrolled in the Core Humanities Seminars used Quest to locate information pertinent to class discussions and assignments. |
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Jason Crisologo admires facsimiles from Falvey Library’s Special Collections, an exhibit held concurrently with the juried exhibit of the Philadelphia Calligraphers Society. On display on the first floor of Falvey Library is a facsimile of the Book of Kells, a richly illustrated Gospel book written on vellum. The Book of Kells is now on permanent display in the library of Trinity College in Dublin. Also on exhibit is a facsimile of a medieval encyclopedia, Liber Floridus, completed in 1120 and owned by the library of the University of Ghent in Belgium, and a facsimile of Les Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry, completed in 1409 and housed in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Bente Polites, special collections librarian, and Bernadette Dierkes, senior graphic artist, Instructional Media Services, collaborated to connect the exhibits of old and new illustrated texts. |
Also contributing to this issue of Blueprints: Bente Polites, Jacqueline Smith and Judith Olsen. Photographs and graphics by Bernadette Dierkes, Steven Dixon and Judith Olsen.
