Posted September 7, 2017
Over 200 people attended the opening reception, held at Swem Library, to honor the three women, Lynn Briley ‘71, Janet Brown Strafer ‘71 and Karen Ely ’71, who moved into Jefferson Hall in 1967.
Posted August 21, 2017
A vendor's cancellation of solar eclipse viewing glasses spurs a creative solution a Swem Library.
Posted August 21, 2017
Students, faculty, alumni and community members created a mural that will be permanently installed in Swem Library, as part of William & Mary’s 50th anniversary commemoration of its first African…
Posted July 19, 2017
Through profiles and photos of over 200 librarians, a new book looks to mind us of how essential librarians and libraries are to our communities.
Posted June 23, 2017
Students experimented with various synthesizers available in the Music Library as part of Christopher DeLaurenti’s summer Introduction to Computer Music and Electroacoustics class.
Posted May 11, 2017
At W&M Libraries, we strive to celebrate faculty publications and make them available to our campus community.
Posted May 8, 2017
The personal papers of William & Mary Chancellor and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates ’65, L.H.D. ’98 are now open to researchers and the public.
Posted May 4, 2017
Associate Professor Sasha Prokhorov and Cindy Centeno ’16, media specialist at Swem Library, will travel to St. Petersburg, Russia this summer to help W&M students incorporate visual storytelling in…
Posted May 4, 2017
The Mosaic Program provides valuable, paid library work experience to students looking to pursue library careers.
Posted April 27, 2017
Twenty-first century technology has enabled William & Mary Libraries to partner in ways that have never before been possible.
Posted March 13, 2017
Room 240, located on the second floor of Swem Library, has been set aside to for purposes of prayer and meditation, individually or in groups.
Posted March 7, 2017
William & Mary alumnus Joseph Daragan ‘71 and his wife, Pam, recently donated their collection of 18th and 19th century almanacs to William & Mary Libraries.
Posted March 7, 2017
New class by Eliot Dudik, visiting assistant professor of photography, teaches students the art of bookmaking.
Posted February 24, 2017
Photos and illustrations illuminating the lives of Buffalo Soldiers during the Philippine-American War are currently on display in Swem Library’s Botetourt Gallery as part of an exhibit organized by…
Posted January 28, 2017
The first phase of the Georgian Papers Programme – roughly 33,000 digitized documents, including some penned by King George III regarding the American Revolution – will be publicly released and…
Posted January 23, 2017
Natasha McFarland, a research and instruction librarian for William & Mary Libraries, has been named co-director of the William & Mary Scholars Undergraduate Research Experience (WMSURE).
Posted January 5, 2017
William & Mary Libraries recently acquired an 1802 edition of Ferdinand Seidel's "Natural History."
Posted November 30, 2016
William & Mary Libraries has acquired more than two dozen, never before published, letters written by James Monroe, the fifth president of the U.S. and an alumnus of the university.
Posted October 25, 2016
A W&M Libraries delegation recently retraced the steps of a 1929 visit to England by former W&M President J.A.C. Chandler.
Posted October 12, 2016
The manuscript is the same kind of Quran the first Muslims in America — enslaved West Africans — would have used.