Due to inclement weather, Swem Library will delay opening until 10am Friday, Dec. 5. More information>
Posted May 27, 2020
The upheaval and restrictions of COVID-19 won’t stop undergraduate research over the summer at William & Mary. But prudence and social-distancing measures will make the experiences quite a bit…
Posted May 19, 2020
Michelle Lelièvre, instructor in American Studies and Anthropology, collaborated with W&M Libraries staff on a multimedia assignment for her course, Hear Here: The Oral History of Williamsburg.
Posted May 18, 2020
For a limited time, while the Libraries’ book collections are closed to the public, HathiTrust is offering temporary online access to books they've digitized which W&M Libraries owns in its print…
Posted May 8, 2020
The William & Mary community has found an assortment of creative ways to document life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted April 27, 2020
William & Mary Libraries has launched a Textbook Affordability Initiative on campus to address the rising costs of textbooks. The effort is managed by a task force of librarians, faculty, staff and…
Posted April 10, 2020
Professors examine best practices for online instruction and students consider new habits for learning, all the while considering the unique challenges that everybody is facing.
Posted April 2, 2020
An entrepreneurial, engineering-based mindset allowed one William & Mary class to make a real contribution to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic during its second week of online instruction.
Posted March 4, 2020
A persistent mystery surrounding one of William & Mary’s most treasured possessions apparently has been solved, by a 19-year-old sophomore.
Posted February 28, 2020
W&M Libraries has received a valuable collection of comic books and other graphic arts depicting African Americans, donated by Richard Percy Wright, an avid collector who lived in Williamsburg.
Posted February 12, 2020
William & Mary Libraries announced the recipients of its inaugural Undergraduate Library Research Awards. The winners are students who submitted papers that illustrated exemplary use of W&M Libraries…
Posted January 21, 2020
The Special Collections Research Center of William & Mary Libraries is pleased to announce that it will award up to four travel grants of up to $1,500 each to faculty, graduate students, and/or…
Posted January 14, 2020
As technology continues to change the world at ever-increasing rates, some of the university’s most innovative transitions are happening in the William & Mary Libraries.
Posted December 2, 2019
W&M marks five-year milestone for Georgian Papers Programme.
Posted October 31, 2019
The School of Education’s Learning Resource Center recently received a grant from the university to expand its Hulon Willis Diversity Collection.
Posted October 25, 2019
As we work together in Virginia to forge a more sustainable, equitable approach to journal deals, the Framework is a powerful statement around which research libraries in the US and abroad can align.
Posted October 9, 2019
More than three dozen women and men donning bonnets and top hats visited Swem Library last week in search of new insights into their favorite author, Jane Austen.
Posted September 30, 2019
W&M Libraries offered human "books" for checkout last week. The unique opportunity allowed attendants to learn from those whose backgrounds and identities differed from their own.
Posted September 27, 2019
As the fall semester gets underway, the university’s Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation is taking shape in Swem Library. Established this spring by Provost Michael Halleran upon the…
Posted August 14, 2019
William & Mary has been awarded a digital humanities grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that will support a collaborative project between the university’s libraries and computer…
Posted July 15, 2019
William & Mary librarian Liz Bellamy ‘13 and Alyssa Archer, Susan Van Patten and Charley Cosmato of Radford were recognized for their initiative to re-envision and renovate an information literacy…