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  • We are excited to announce the winners of the Natasha McFarland Staff Scholarship. The scholarship was named after former librarian Natasha McFarland, who retired in December 2020. McFarland worked for W&M Libraries for 37 years and left behind a legacy after becoming the first employee to progress from a typist to a research librarian over the course of a well-decorated career.

  • I am old enough that several of the places that I have lived over the years have been torn down, including the house on South Boundary Street that I lived in for two years as a W&M student. To all those who wander up and down DoG Street: think about the street's very different appearance before Colonial Williamsburg.

  • April 13th, 2021 marks the entry of the first TikTok into William & Mary's Special Collections web archives. The TikTok features a performance by VIMS alum David Niebuhr, putting a spin on a TikTok trend where creators use a popular sea shanty, "The Wellerman," in the creation of their video content.

  • Our summer staff share their experiences on spending the summer days in the Swem stacks, placing RFID tags on over a million books!

  • Our summer staff share their experiences on spending the summer days in the Swem stacks, placing RFID tags on over a million books!

  • Recently, I began a process to show my appreciation to William & Mary, in a modest way, for my education and to give something back to the College as I approached the 50th anniversary of my graduation in 1970.