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- By Jake Beardsley '21
- In this series, we are spotlighting researchers who have contributed to W&M ScholarWorks, our institutional repository. We asked each researcher to identify a scholarly work and share the "human story" behind it.
- My favorite kinds of materials in archives are the ones we might describe colloquially as "well-loved," where you can tell that someone—or perhaps more than one someone—spent hours writing, reading, and thinking about a topic.
- Sometime between 1795 and 1826, Lady Jean Skipwith made an account of the flora on her property. A pocket-sized notebook, now in the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), contains her handwritten list of plants.
- Written by graduate student assistant, Erna Anderson. This exhibit is on view in the Swem Library lobby through April 1, 2021. Content warning: This post discusses blackface and gender impersonation.
- In this series, we are spotlighting researchers who have contributed to W&M ScholarWorks, our institutional repository. We asked each researcher to identify a scholarly work and share the "human story" behind it. Who are the people behind the data and theory, and how were they affected by the scholarship?
- In this series, we are spotlighting researchers who have contributed to W&M ScholarWorks, our institutional repository. We asked each researcher to identify a scholarly work and share the "human story" behind it. Who are the people behind the data and theory, and how were they affected by the scholarship?
- It's OE Week and we've been spending some time thinking about all the ways OERs have impacted the people at William & Mary. One such person is biology professor, Paul Heideman. Dr. Heideman is well known on campus as a passionate teacher, accomplished researcher and author, and OER advocate. Jessica Ramey, one of our research librarians, recently got the opportunity to ask Dr.
- By Jake Beardsley '21
- In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, protestors in Bristol toppled the statue of Edward Colston (1636-1721) in an act representative of an accelerated global reckoning with the legacies of enslavement and colonialism.
- This February marks the annual celebration of Black History Month, officially recognized by President Gerald Ford as a period to "honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history."
- Beatific. Sympathetic. Spiritually illuminated. An ecological, fresh-planet consciousness. So Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac described their work, their art, their lives.
- On January 18, 2021 our nation marks the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. On this day we honor his life and legacy as a civil rights leader. W&M Libraries provides access to a host of resources chronicling the life and legacy of Dr. King.
- A common and complex practice within Tibetan Buddhism is the millenia-old, slow and careful creation of sand mandalas.
- This summer, the Research Department at William & Mary Libraries reprised a workshop series for undergraduate researchers that we'd first held in Summer 2020 as a response to the pandemic. We built on the success of last year's series to offer greater variety, expanded topics, and more flexibility for students.
- In this post, we introduce W&M Libraries' new digital archivist, Michelle Runyon!
- With the turning of the seasons we at Special Collections look back on our histories of outdoor activities, and the community that can be found therein.
- Tracy Melton '85, member of the William & Mary Libraries Board of Directors, reflects on the university's previous experience with pandemic. Melton is generously donating the journal that he is keeping during the global health crisis; the journal will be open to research in 2022.
- In today's blog post, we introduce W&M Libraries' new oral historian!