W&M Libraries Blog

2015

• Get to Know Cuban Artists' Books with Ediciones Vigía

  Posted on October 28, 2015
  From the Special Collections Blog
   

• Open House this Saturday - Come Visit Us!

  Posted on October 21, 2015
  From the Special Collections Blog
  The Special Collections Research Center, located on the first floor of Swem Library, is hosting an Open House this Saturday, October 24, from 9am-11am.  We will showcase select items from University Archives as well as our general manuscript and rare book collections, highlighting both examples of philanthropy and firsts at William & Mary.  

• Electronic Records Day!

  Posted on October 9, 2015
  From the Special Collections Blog
  Tomorrow, October 10th, is Electronic Records Day. This is the fourth annual Electronic Records Day, which the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) started.

• Web Archiving at W & M

  Posted on October 8, 2015
  From the Special Collections Blog
  Have you ever found an old website with the Wayback Machine or played the 1990 version of Oregon Trail in your browser?

• “gave out and rec’d books”

  Posted on October 7, 2015
  From the Special Collections Blog
  This quote from the diary of Civil War chaplain William E. Wiatt documents an unusual aspect of the his duties. The chaplain carried a circulating library for the soldiers he was tending. Wiatt’s diary has been published, but the original is still in private hands. (Alex L. Wiatt. Confederate Chaplain William Edward Wiatt: An Annotated Diary. Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1994.