Posted November 1, 2024
Every year, Swem Library hosts its annual Two-Sentence Horror Story Competition to encourage students, faculty, and alumni to share their scariest short stories. The competition challenges community members to use their creativity to create these bone-chilling tales in the most concise way possible…
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On February 28, 2019, the University of California System announced the end of its relationship with publishing giant Elsevier, when a deal between the two could not be met despite months of negotiation.
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It only took one tour of William & Mary for me to know that the College was for me. I remember that day fondly.
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On a whiteboard in the lobby we asked, "Which book best captures your identity or culture?" Students gave us over 50 fantastic responses that highlighted the wonderful diversity in our community!
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W&M Libraries is lucky to have many talented student employees. Today's post will introduce Alicia Draper.
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A broadside for the performance of a traveling minstrel show, advertising "an evening of singing, dancing, music, and jokes," caught the attention of a student in the Special Collections Reading Room this past week.
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With February officially behind us, we say good-bye to that infamous holiday of love--Valentine's Day. This year the Libraries celebrated Valentine's Day with an event universally known (among libraries anyway) as Blind Date with a Book.
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W&M Libraries is lucky to have many talented student employees. As a library student employee myself -- I am a Mosaic Diversity intern working in Swem Library's External Relations Office -- I decided to get to know miy fellow student assistants.
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The catalog update launched just over a month ago, and we would like to share some new updates and information on feedback you have sent us.
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W&M Libraries is lucky to have many talented student employees. As a library student employee myself -- I am a Mosaic Diversity intern working in Swem Library's External Relations Office -- I decided to get to know miy fellow student assistants.
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At the close of the eighteenth century, a series of revolutions broke out throughout the Atlantic World.
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The best part of working at the library is certainly the patrons and the people I work with.
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Great News! The Office of the Bursar Records have been digitized and are available for researching, right from your computer.
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From 1927-1947, Dr. Grace Warren Landrum served the William & Mary community as both Dean of Women and Professor of English. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Landrum completed her doctorate at Radcliffe College with a dissertation on Chaucer.
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The holiday season is a season for gift giving for many.
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As the holiday season begins, we thought it appropriate to highlight a recent addition to our collection that coincides with the festivities of the season.
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The collections budget of the university libraries is subject to enormous inflationary pressures for scholarly content. This issue is of supreme importance to universities around the globe, with libraries in many countries working on strategies to provide greater access to information without monopolizing their entire budgets on a small number of for-profit journal publishers. This year, we have worked with other universities in the state to analyze our own journal subscriptions, particularly those subscriptions which we have with the top academic publishers in the world.
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William & Mary's Hip-Hop Collections features two unopened CD cases of "Urban Legend" by Richmond MC, JayQuan.
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A good romantic love story has universal appeal.
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As an archival processor in Swem's Special Collections Research Center, Mariaelena DiBenigno, PhD candidate, has been reading a lot about World War II.
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For four days, Tijeras Avenue and 2nd Street in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico was immersed with people who worked in libraries, and most were people of color.