News & Events

Learning about the Civil Rights movement through primary resources

Posted January 17, 2018

The Special Collections Research Center at Swem Library holds a number of important collections related to the Civil Rights movement.

Funding available to attend Digital Humanities Summer Institute

Posted January 17, 2018

William & Mary Libraries and Arts & Sciences are pleased to provide funding to cover registration costs for up to five faculty and graduate students to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute,…

Access New York Times online

Posted January 16, 2018

Enjoy complimentary access to NYTimes.com, courtesy of W&M Libraries!

William & Mary librarian serves as judge on Chinese talent show

Posted December 4, 2017

This summer Carrie Cooper, dean of university libraries, represented William & Mary as a judge on the “Star of Outlook English Talent Competition,” the largest, most influential English speaking…

Reducing textbooks costs through OER adoption

Posted November 20, 2017

Faculty are invited to explore alternatives to traditional textbooks in a workshop hosted at Swem Library in December.

In their words: Preserving William & Mary’s history through oral storytelling

Posted November 8, 2017

William & Mary’s oral history collection, preserved in Swem Library’s Special Collections Research Center, will gain exciting new additions in the coming years as the university celebrates the 50th…

W&M Libraries publishes new research guides for Open Access Week

Posted October 25, 2017

In honor of Open Access (OA) Week, W&M Libraries have released a collection of research guides within “scholarly communications” to help the W&M community learn more about these important topics.

W&M hosting conference on race, memory and digital humanities

Posted October 6, 2017

The three-day event runs Oct. 26 to 28 and is free and open to the public. Nearly 30 scholars from as far away as London will participate.

From St. Petersburg to Swem

Posted October 5, 2017

Sasha Prokhorov had seen St. Petersburg many times through the eyes of the William & Mary students participating in his study-abroad classes to Russia. Never had he seen it through the lenses of the…

Author Kwame Alexander to visit William & Mary

Posted September 20, 2017

New York Times Bestselling author Kwame Alexander will visit William & Mary on Friday, Oct. 6 for a number of special events, including a writing workshop exclusively for W&M students.

William & Mary kicks off 50th commemoration with mural unveiling

Posted September 7, 2017

Over 200 people attended the opening reception, held at Swem Library, to honor the three women, Lynn Briley ‘71, Janet Brown Strafer ‘71 and Karen Ely ’71, who moved into Jefferson Hall in 1967.

William & Mary eclipse viewing party goes 'old school' — kind of

Posted August 21, 2017

A vendor's cancellation of solar eclipse viewing glasses spurs a creative solution a Swem Library.

Symbolic mural created for 50th commemoration of first African-American residential students

Posted August 21, 2017

Students, faculty, alumni and community members created a mural that will be permanently installed in Swem Library, as part of William & Mary’s 50th anniversary commemoration of its first African…

This is What a Librarian Looks Like: New book features W&M librarian

Posted July 19, 2017

Through profiles and photos of over 200 librarians, a new book looks to mind us of how essential librarians and libraries are to our communities.

Students explore computer music with new Music Library synthesizers

Posted June 23, 2017

Students experimented with various synthesizers available in the Music Library as part of Christopher DeLaurenti’s summer Introduction to Computer Music and Electroacoustics class.

New publications by W&M faculty

Posted May 11, 2017

At W&M Libraries, we strive to celebrate faculty publications and make them available to our campus community.

Robert Gates’ papers open to the public

Posted May 8, 2017

The personal papers of William & Mary Chancellor and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates ’65, L.H.D. ’98 are now open to researchers and the public.

Library-faculty partnership: Teaching of democratic change in Russia

Posted May 4, 2017

Associate Professor Sasha Prokhorov and Cindy Centeno ’16, media specialist at Swem Library, will travel to St. Petersburg, Russia this summer to help W&M students incorporate visual storytelling in…

W&M Libraries launches Mosaic program

Posted May 4, 2017

The Mosaic Program provides valuable, paid library work experience to students looking to pursue library careers.

Illuminating royalty: W&M Libraries partners on Georgian Papers Programme

Posted April 27, 2017

Twenty-first century technology has enabled William & Mary Libraries to partner in ways that have never before been possible.