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Diving into Faculty Scholarship: Forthcoming W&M Press Publications
Posted October 23, 2025
In honor of International Open Access Week, we are excited to share details about two forthcoming publications from W&M Press.
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Why I love working at Swem
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The best part of working at the library is certainly the patrons and the people I work with.
January's Digitized-Collection-of-the-Month: Office of the Bursar Records
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Great News! The Office of the Bursar Records have been digitized and are available for researching, right from your computer.
"I seek only equality…"
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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.
What's New in the Collections: Heritage Humane Society Scrapbooks
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The holiday season is a season for gift giving for many.
Celebrating the Festival of Lights: New Donation
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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.
Sustainable Collections: Spending Trends with Big Deal Publishers
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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.
Hip Hop in the SCRC
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William & Mary's Hip-Hop Collections features two unopened CD cases of "Urban Legend" by Richmond MC, JayQuan.
Recently Processed: Helen Rodgers Weber Letters
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A good romantic love story has universal appeal.
Who's Susie?
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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.
I Belong
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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.
Student Voices: Keyyatta Bonds
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My name is Keyyatta Bonds, and I am part of the second cohort of the William & Mary Libraries Mosaic Program. I am Sophomore at the College, planning to major in International Relations (even though taking more ECON classes is not what I envisioned for my future).
Women in World War I: Preserving Humanity in History
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On December 25, 1918, Edith Neele Gibbons, of Cleveland, Ohio, was aboard the S. S. Coronia en route to London.
The Resurrection of Frankenstein
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This year is the 200th anniversary of the release of Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
Open Access & Open Education Resources (OER)
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October 21 is the start of Open Access Week, that time every year when we salute all things open access. This year, W&M Libraries is focusing on Open Education Resources (OER), which are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.
October is Archives Month!
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During the month of October we celebrate National Archives Month! Often the profession of an archivist can seem ambiguous, since the role can entail varied duties and areas of expertise.
Lord Botetourt Coffin Plate Returns - Come See It!
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This exhibit celebrates the return of Lord Botetourt's coffin plate to the University Archives and commemorates the anniversary of his death on October 15, 1770. This is the first time it has been exhibited on the William & Mary campus since 1956.
Sally Daingerfield's "Plastic" Photograph Album Cover from 1867
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Recently, Kim Sims, university archivist, and Christina Luers, archives collections specialist, had a unique opportunity to view scientific artifacts at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Special Collections Staff Participate in SAA
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August 12-18 was the Society of American Archivist's Annual Conference, held in Washington, D.C. This year, two William & Mary staff members presented at the conference: Christina Luers, CA, Archives Collections Specialist for Special Collections Research Center, and Jay Gaidmore, Director of Special Collections. Their sessions were among 73 presentations at this year's conference that were selected from a record-setting 277 submitted proposals.
A 1926 Summer Cruise
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Cruising for pleasure in 1926 was not quite the same as a cruise ship vacation ride today.
What is Text & Data Mining (TDM)?
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TDM helps us discover, through the analysis of complex data sets, new information in the form of trends, patterns, and relationships.