Villanova Digital Library

Today's "DCDE Comics Spotlight" highlights more sword-and-sorcery and fantasy comics from Special Collections: blog.library.villanova.edu/2025/05/08/dcd…

A new exhibit, "The European Theater of World War II," is now on view at the Prince Family Veterans Resource Center in Vasey Hall. You can read all about it on our blog: blog.library.villanova.edu/2025/02/07/new…

The latest "DCDE Comics Spotlight" installment features comics from our Special Collections based on the works of Robert E. Howard: "Conan the Barbarian" and "Red Sonja": blog.library.villanova.edu/2024/11/12/dcd…

This week, "DCDE Comics Spotlight" highlights a collaboration between DC Comics, the United States Department of Transportation, and the American Honda Motor Company, published in 1984 as part of a larger initiative to promote safe driving practices. blog.library.villanova.edu/2024/11/01/dcd…

The second installment in the blog series, "DCDE Comics Spotlight," discusses two horror comics series from Special Collections just in time for the Halloween season! blog.library.villanova.edu/2024/10/21/dcd…

With the start of October and the Halloween season, today our blog focuses on ghost ships, sea monsters, and other nautical terrors in the Villanova Digital Library blog.library.villanova.edu/2024/10/01/gho…

Our new digital exhibit showcases photographs and other materials from our Millers Mechanical Shows Papers collection, as well as other materials related to American circuses and traveling shows of the early twentieth century. exhibits.library.villanova.edu/millers-mechan…

The latest post on our blog showcases materials in the Villanova Digital Library that relate to film, from the silent era to the present blog.library.villanova.edu/2024/09/11/fil…

The first installment in our new blog series, "DCDE Comics Spotlight," highlights comic books and graphic novels from Special Collections, starting with the 1993 miniseries "Metamorpho"! blog.library.villanova.edu/2024/08/29/dcd…

Discover the history and the name(s) behind Kennedy Hall in our new exhibit now on view through Summer 2024. The year 1968 was a transformative year in US history and VU campus as well. It also marked the first time VU's students played a major role in naming a campus building.

"Eclipses are singular things; to see the bright sunlight blotted out at noonday, and then after a little to see it reappear as suddenly as it went away." Happy Days, April 25, 1914. digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:3572…

The latest post on our blog celebrates Greek Independence Day with selections from the Villanova Digital Library's Newspaper Collection. blog.library.villanova.edu/2024/03/25/gre…

Today's post on the Falvey Library blog brings to light some lesser known works by well-known authors in the Villanova Digital Library, including stories by Louisa May Alcott and Arthur Conan Doyle. blog.library.villanova.edu/2024/02/29/les…

A new post on our blog highlights our new exhibit on Villanova's V-12 Navy College Training Program during WWII, now on view in Vasey Hall: blog.library.villanova.edu/2024/02/02/new…. Photograph by Shawn Proctor, MFA, Communication and Marketing Program Manager.

The latest post on our blog highlights recently digitized materials related to the 1927 lost silent film, "London After Midnight," starring Lon Chaney: blog.library.villanova.edu/2024/01/17/rec…

Lemaitre's Villanova Mendel Medal was up for auction and sold on November 22. Check out the @VillanovaDigLib blog about the long life of the Mendel Medal: blog.library.villanova.edu/2023/06/02/rec…

Public Domain Day 2024: 1928 content from Distinctive Collections blog.library.villanova.edu/2024/01/05/pub…

In celebration of the 35th Special Olympics Pennsylvania Fall Festival at Villanova (Nov. 3-5, 2023), we're sharing a photo of the lighting of the Olympic flame from the 1992 Fall Festival. Best of luck to all the athletes competing this weekend! Photo: @VillanovaDigLib

Happening tomorrow at 4:30!

More details on this two-part episode are available in @_trisMEGistus latest #FalveyFavorites blog.library.villanova.edu/2023/09/01/wha…

'What's in a dime novel?' Find out here, in the most recent installment of #TheSpareChangePodcast: dimenovels.org/Podcast/About/…