News & Events

New librarians join W&M

Posted November 2, 2018

William & Mary Libraries welcomes Morgan Davis, Jessica Ramey, Mary Oberlies, and Liz Bellamy ’13 as new instruction and research librarians.

Nearly a century of W&M scholarship now openly accessible online

Posted October 25, 2018

Researchers and scholars around the globe can now freely access nearly 100 years of William & Mary scholarship online in the university’s institutional repository, W&M ScholarWorks.

Faculty books published in 2018

Posted October 8, 2018

The following books were authored or edited by William & Mary faculty members and published in 2018.

Rock star' librarian Carla Hayden takes center stage at W&M

Posted October 8, 2018

U.S. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden visited William & Mary Sept. 28, 2018.

100 years of coeducation at W&M

Posted September 27, 2018

In 1918, 24 women arrived for their freshman year. It was the birth of a new era, at William & Mary and in the world.

William & Mary signs historic partnership agreement with Cuban media organization

Posted August 23, 2018

This summer William & Mary signed a partnership agreement with Television Serrana (TVS), in conjunction with the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT), becoming the first U.S. university to…

Employees celebrated for longtime service to W&M

Posted July 11, 2018

Last month, William & Mary employees were recognized for reaching milestones in their years of service to the university. Those recognized served W&M for five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 50…

Making W&M scholarship freely available online

Posted June 28, 2018

W&M Libraries has initiated an extensive and exciting project to digitize W&M masters theses and doctoral dissertations. The Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) retrospective conversion project…

W&M Libraries part of pilot program to offer campus-wide access to Washington Post online

Posted June 20, 2018

As part of a pilot program, William & Mary students, staff and faculty now have access to The Washington Post online for free, courtesy of William & Mary Libraries.

Aceto Award honors Zuber’s service to students’ writing

Posted May 25, 2018

Sharon Zuber, senior lecturer of English and film and media studies and director of the Writing Resources Center at William & Mary, will receive the 2018 Shirley Aceto Award for exceptional…

Finals Week Activities at Swem Library

Posted April 27, 2018

Take a minute each day during final exams to recharge with these free activities at Swem! All events will take place in the first floor lobby area:

Students partner with library to address textbook affordability

Posted April 23, 2018

Recently two W&M student organizations, Student Assembly (SA) and W&M Libraries Student Ambassadors, turned to the libraries to seek ways to address textbook affordability.

W&M Libraries partners with Williamsburg Regional Library to expand reach

Posted April 9, 2018

In celebration of National Library Week, William & Mary Libraries and Williamsburg Regional Library announce a unique partnership that will significantly benefit local residents and the W&M community…

One Tribe One Day Celebrates 5th Anniversary

Posted March 28, 2018

The William & Mary community, here and afar, will come together on Tuesday, April 10 to celebrate One Tribe One Day — the university’s fifth annual giving day. For 24 hours, students, alumni, parents…

32-hour hackathon evolves into recruiting tool for big tech

Posted March 7, 2018

William & Mary’s annual student-run coding marathon tribeHacks returns for its fourth year March 23-25.

Apply for a Special Collections Research Travel Grant

Posted February 26, 2018

The Special Collections Research Center of William & Mary Libraries will award travel grants up to $1,500 each to professors, graduate students and/or independent researchers to support research use…

Washington, DC trip: Interactive Teaching Spaces

Posted February 21, 2018

On Friday, March 23 W&M Libraries and the Provost’s Office are co-hosting a trip to Washington, D.C.

William & Mary Libraries welcomes new head of research

Posted February 8, 2018

Candice Benjes-Small comes to W&M Libraries from Radford University where she served for 16 years at the McConnell Library.

Library receives diary of soldier imprisoned at William & Mary during Civil War

Posted January 29, 2018

The Scandrett family has donated the diary of their great-grandfather, a Union soldier imprisoned at William & Mary during the Civil War, to William & Mary Libraries.

New way to search special collections materials at Swem

Posted January 22, 2018

The Special Collections Research Center recently underwent a database migration. Our new database is now accessible.