FALVEY LIBRARY AT VIC MAGGITTI HALL
Vic Maggitti Hall—the new home of Falvey Library—will advance the priorities of Villanova’s Strategic Plan, illustrating our ongoing commitment to furthering scholarship at the University and enhancing the learning experience for all.
A NEW HOME FOR FALVEY LIBRARY
The new library is an ambitious and forward-looking project developed through a collaborative process with input from more than 400 students, faculty and staff and designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP.
Vic Maggitti Hall will feature five floors of modern, technology-enabled spaces that will amplify Villanova’s research capacity, invigorate teaching and learning, and foster cross-disciplinary collaboration. It will be a welcoming space for students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends to learn, study, discover and connect with one another through intellectual pursuits.
Explore Vic Maggitti Hall
Renderings of the exterior and interior
of Vic Maggitti Hall.
A CENTERPIECE OF CAMPUS
Located in the heart of Villanova's campus at the current site of Kennedy Hall, Vic Maggitti Hall will become the new front door to the University’s academic community. The new Vic Maggitti Hall will enable Falvey Library to have an even greater impact on the Villanova community and will serve the University’s long-range goals as a world-class institution.
At 150,000 sq. ft., Falvey Library at Vic Maggitti Hall will allow existing services to expand in square footage and capacity. Features of the building will include:
- Areas to showcase rare and distinctive collections, highlighting the University’s fast-growing rare books, manuscripts collections and archives.
- An expanded digital scholarship suite where faculty and students learn how to use digital tools and techniques (e.g. data visualization, text analysis, and mapping) in their research.
- On-site general collections, housed in browsable, compact shelving.
- Engaging event spaces for lectures, conferences and other programming that will bring the University’s community together.
- A significant increase in study seats and meeting rooms, including flexibility to accommodate additional seating during peak usage times, as well as a dedicated graduate student space.
- A floor dedicated to the student learning experience, called the Learning Commons, bringing essential academic resources for students together in a larger, central location.
- Research and Teaching Commons, a collection of the critical teams and resources that help the teacher-scholar model flourish at Villanova.
- An impressive main entrance which will carry visitors from the Riley Ellipse at the center of campus into a bright atrium.
BY THE NUMBERS
150,000
square foot
new building
$150
million total
project cost
60%
increase in
student study seating
RECOGNIZING OUR LEAD DONOR
The new building for Falvey Library is named in recognition of a previously announced $20 million leadership gift from Victor J. Maggitti, Jr. ’56 VSB.
Mr. Maggitti is the Founder and President of Vimco, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of construction supplies and accessories. He is a longstanding supporter of Villanova University, who was recognized for his commitment with the 2006 St. Thomas of Villanova Medal—the highest honor bestowed by the Villanova University Alumni Association.
Throughout the years, Mr. Maggitti has demonstrated a passion for supporting projects that bolster Villanova’s facilities, providing leadership-level support to the University’s Athletics facilities, as well as the John and Joan Mullen Center for the Performing Arts.
VILLANOVA'S STRATEGIC PLAN
The new Falvey Library at Vic Maggitti Hall highlights Villanova’s ongoing plans to upgrade its academic facilities—as outlined in the University’s Strategic Plan, Rooted. Restless.—to better support Villanova’s position as a national research institution. This new building advances this initiative addressing academic spaces, as well as those related to scholarship and teaching and learning. It will add much needed study space on campus—one of Villanova’s greatest needs—and makes the existing building available for future projects.