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Building a Library in the Seventeenth (and the Twenty-first) Century

Posted January 12, 2017

<html><body>Many of the books in Swem Library's Special Collections have been gifted by individual donors who have themselves built up their own private collections.

Is Smaller Better? (When talking about textbooks)

Posted January 5, 2017

<html><body>The University of Leiden in the Netherlands, founded in 1575, is the country's oldest; it is also now one of the study abroad opportunities offered to William

"A Christmas present of real and enduring value" : Ferdinand Seidel's Natural History with 179 Copperplate Engravings.

Posted December 28, 2016

<html><body>"Buy 5 Get 1 Free" - that is how the publisher advertised the 1805 edition of Ferdinand Seidel's Naturhistorisches Kupferwerk : mit erklare

Santa Claus descending a chimney with a full sack, sleigh with gifts on the rooftop.

"'Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Posted December 21, 2016

<html><body>Everyone knows these famous lines even if the rest of the poems escapes them. "A Visit from St.

Lasting Impressions: Printing from the Fifteenth Century to Today

Posted December 14, 2016

<html><body>In the basement of Swem Library is a room used mostly for storage. Along two walls are machines and wooden cases full of drawers.

Art in the SCRC Collections

Posted October 26, 2016

<html><body>SCRC has an active instruction schedule during the academic year, as professors from all departments bring their students in to

Story of Boyhood Reveals Well-Known Nature Advocate's Skill in Inventing

Posted September 28, 2016

<html><body>Tucked among countless other books in the Special Collections stacks of rare books lies a rather unassuming looking text.

The £105.00 Mystery: Horatia Nelson's Book

Posted July 21, 2016

<html><body>By Ellen Cloyed, W&M Libraries Rare Books Cataloger

The World of Buster Brown -According to Tige, His Dog

Posted June 1, 2016

<html><body>The Chapin-Horowitz Collection is my go-to treasure-trove for fun and unexpected sources on pretty much any undergraduate course topic that comes our way during the

The Library of St. George Tucker

Posted May 4, 2016

<html><body>Swem Library's Special Collections holds the library of St. George Tucker. The library has been described by Jill M. Coghlan ("The Library of St.