We at Falvey feel that the initiatives and standards proposed by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and by ACRL validate our early efforts to promote information literacy at Villanova. IMS houses a large collection of videotapes, as well as other media, that can be reserved and checked out by faculty or assigned to students for individual viewing. Faculty are encouraged to request new titles to add to the media collection for the curriculum or for research purposes. IMS provides and maintains equipment in many classrooms, including multimedia projection, video playback and overhead projection. Faculty may also borrow a variety of media equipment, such as camcorders, audiocassette recorders and slide projectors.
Faculty can reserve a fully equipped multimedia viewing room for group presentation purposes.
Creative services such as graphic arts, photography and video production are available to faculty for curriculum, research and publication use. Due to the nature and popularity of the many services provided by IMS, please plan as far in advance as possible, especially for creative projects, and consult with the appropriate IMS staff. The real question on all our minds though is whether this revolution amounts to a turning point in the history of human learning the way Gutenberg's invention did. While the jury is still out Falvey is participating in this digital revolution of university teaching, including several preeminent initiatives involving electronic hypertexts or eBooks. One such eBook initiative is netLibrary.