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Congrats to the Class of 2025 Library Student Employees!
Posted April 30, 2025
As the academic year comes to an end, we’d like to recognize and celebrate our graduating student employees.
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Outtakes, Known Unknowns, and a Problem with the Archive
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Written by graduate student assistant, Erna Anderson. This exhibit is on view in the Swem Library lobby through April 1, 2021. Content warning: This post discusses blackface and gender impersonation.
ScholarWorks Spotlight: Celebrating the Human Side of Research - Dr. Jonathan Allen
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In this series, we are spotlighting researchers who have contributed to W&M ScholarWorks, our institutional repository. We asked each researcher to identify a scholarly work and share the "human story" behind it. Who are the people behind the data and theory, and how were they affected by the scholarship?
ScholarWorks Spotlight: Celebrating the Human Side of Research
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In this series, we are spotlighting researchers who have contributed to W&M ScholarWorks, our institutional repository. We asked each researcher to identify a scholarly work and share the "human story" behind it. Who are the people behind the data and theory, and how were they affected by the scholarship?
Increasing Student Engagement and Learning with OERs: An Interview with Paul Heideman
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It's OE Week and we've been spending some time thinking about all the ways OERs have impacted the people at William & Mary. One such person is biology professor, Paul Heideman. Dr. Heideman is well known on campus as a passionate teacher, accomplished researcher and author, and OER advocate. Jessica Ramey, one of our research librarians, recently got the opportunity to ask Dr.
The Stamp of Our Past
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In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, protestors in Bristol toppled the statue of Edward Colston (1636-1721) in an act representative of an accelerated global reckoning with the legacies of enslavement and colonialism.
Black History Month – History, Antiracism, and You
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This February marks the annual celebration of Black History Month, officially recognized by President Gerald Ford as a period to "honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history."
The Day W&M was Beat
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Beatific. Sympathetic. Spiritually illuminated. An ecological, fresh-planet consciousness. So Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac described their work, their art, their lives.
Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
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On January 18, 2021 our nation marks the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. On this day we honor his life and legacy as a civil rights leader. W&M Libraries provides access to a host of resources chronicling the life and legacy of Dr. King.
The Diane R. Clark Movie Poster Collection and The Importance of Destruction
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A common and complex practice within Tibetan Buddhism is the millenia-old, slow and careful creation of sand mandalas.
Travel Grant Recipient Research Report: Russell Hooper
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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.
Introducing Michelle Runyon, digital archivist
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In this post, we introduce W&M Libraries' new digital archivist, Michelle Runyon!
A Brief Look at Community and the Great Outdoors
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With the turning of the seasons we at Special Collections look back on our histories of outdoor activities, and the community that can be found therein.
William & Mary, A Century Ago
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Tracy Melton '85, member of the William & Mary Libraries Board of Directors, reflects on the university's previous experience with pandemic. Melton is generously donating the journal that he is keeping during the global health crisis; the journal will be open to research in 2022.
Introducing Andre Taylor, oral historian for W&M
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In today's blog post, we introduce W&M Libraries' new oral historian!
"No respecter of persons": Some Yorktown Visitors and the "Spanish Flu" Pandemic of 1918-1919
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Bill Cole ('70) shares the stories behind the names in Catherine Sheild's 20th-century Yorktown guest book.
30 Years of ADA and the History of Accessibility at W&M
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As we reflect on the past thirty years of the Americans with Disabilities Act at W&M—and the even longer history of activism preceding it—now we ask: What might the next thirty years look like?
Self-Acclaimed, Self-Published
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Did you know July is International Zine Month? To celebrate, Mosaic Fellow Shayna Gutcho introduces zines and their importance in our library.
Pride Month: Collections and Community
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In celebration of Pride Month, discover collections that highlight community and peer LGBTQ+ organizations.
Quarantine Through the Eyes of an Artist
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Artist Jen Fisher documents the beauty of the everyday, and finding the silver linings in our new normal. Her artwork will become part of the Special Collections' archive of personal experiences and documentaries of the coronavirus pandemic.