Posted December 5, 2025
Deep in Special Collections, hundreds of books reveal their beauty with a simple touch. This collection of fore-edge paintings is the largest of its kind in the United States, containing 712 books whose artwork is painted not on the page, but on the edges of the pages themselves.
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Belonging is an ongoing goal for our archives, and our aim is to have collections that support and reflect the research and interests of students, faculty, staff, and the world.
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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.
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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.
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Belonging. We create a welcoming and caring community that embraces diverse people and perspectives.
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In this post, we introduce W&M Libraries' new Publishing & Open Access Librarian, Rosie Liljenquist!
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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.
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In this post, we introduce W&M Libraries' new metadata specialist, Emory LaPrade!
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With the Library Ambassadors Report, new member Jenna Massey '24 will provide updates on the how the organization is helping make W&M Libraries a better place to study, discover, and community build.
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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.
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In this post, we introduce W&M Libraries' new metadata specialist, Natalie Rue!
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In this post, we introduce our new instruction & research librarian, Camille Andrews!
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Our summer staff share their experiences on spending the summer days in the Swem stacks, placing RFID tags on over a million books!
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Our summer staff share their experiences on spending the summer days in the Swem stacks, placing RFID tags on over a million books!
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Our summer staff share their experiences on spending the summer days in the Swem stacks, placing RFID tags on over a million books!
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Our summer staff share their experiences on spending the summer days in the Swem stacks, placing RFID tags on over a million books!
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Our summer staff share their experiences on spending the summer days in the Swem stacks, placing RFID tags on over a million books!
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Our summer staff share their experiences on spending the summer days in the Swem stacks, placing RFID tags on over a million books!
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Our summer staff share their experiences on spending the summer days in the Swem stacks, placing RFID tags on over a million books!
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In this post, we introduce W&M Libraries' new acquisitions assistant, Jennifer Forbes!
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On one level a virtual reality headset works the same way as the old View Master toy.