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Dear Library Workers...Thank You!
Posted April 24, 2026
During National Library Week, students wrote thank you notes to William & Mary library workers.
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Nuts + Bolts + Sprinkles Podcast: Emma Shahin
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To celebrate International Amateur Radio Month, the Music Library talks to Emma Shahin, WCWM DJ and editor-in-chief of WCWM's magazine "Vinyl Tap," in this second installment of the podcast "Nuts + Bolts + Sprinkles."
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Nuts + Bolts + Sprinkles Podcast: Corey Bridges
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To celebrate International Amateur Radio Month, the Music Library talks to Corey Bridges, Senior Station Manager at WCWM, in this first podcast of "Nuts + Bolts + Sprinkles."
Something New Under the Moon
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Over the winter and spring of early 1941, a towering landmark rose on the rural landscape less than two miles from downtown Williamsburg. The structure housed the screen for the Stockade Theatre Auto-Torium at Casey's Corner, where Richmond and Ironbound Roads intersect.
ScholarWorks Spotlight: Celebrating the Human Side of Research - Dr. Nicole Dressler
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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?
Meet New Associate Dean for Collections and Content Services, Laura Morales
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In this post, we introduce W&M Libraries' new associate dean for collections and content services, Laura Morales!
ScholarWorks Spotlight: Celebrating the Human Side of Research - Dr. Carrie Dolan
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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?
National Library Week: Highlighting Alumni Authors
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From children's stories to poetry collections to military history, the alumni authors of William & Mary have all of your book-loving needs covered.
ScholarWorks Spotlight: Celebrating the Human Side of Research - Dr. Deenesh Sohoni
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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 - Dr. Claire McKinney
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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.
Cooking by the Book: Mary Randolph's The Virginia Housewife
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My favorite kinds of materials in archives are the ones we might describe colloquially as "well-loved," where you can tell that someone—or perhaps more than one someone—spent hours writing, reading, and thinking about a topic.
Lists and Linnaean Taxonomy in Jean Skipwith's Papers
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Sometime between 1795 and 1826, Lady Jean Skipwith made an account of the flora on her property. A pocket-sized notebook, now in the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), contains her handwritten list of plants.
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.