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Your Whiteboard Responses Help W&M Libraries Build Its Book Collection

April 8, 2019

Each week during the Fall 2018 semester, you might've seen a whiteboard near the Swem Library lobby with a (usually) fun question and invitation for library visitors to answer. For the week of November 11, we asked, "Which book best captures your identity or culture?" And you gave us over 50 fantastic responses that highlighted the wonderful diversity in our community. Thank you!

W&M Libraries already owned a little over 75 percent of the books that were mentioned on the whiteboard. We then bought as many of the rest as we could. While some of the titles weren't a good fit for...

Apr 2019

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    March 14, 2019
    With February officially behind us, we say good-bye to that infamous holiday of love--Valentine’s Day. This year the Libraries celebrated Valentine’s Day with an event universally known (among libraries anyway) as Blind Date with a Book.

Feb 2019

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Oct 2018

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    October 19, 2018
    October 22 is the start of Open Access Week, that time every year when we salute all things open access. “What is open access,” you say? According to Peter Suber, in the scholarly communications office at Harvard and one of the foremost champions of open access (OA), “Open-access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

Sep 2018

  • What is Text & Data Mining (TDM)?

    September 4, 2018
    TDM helps us discover, through the analysis of complex data sets, new information in the form of trends, patterns, and relationships. 

Jun 2018

  • A New Guide for the Budding Genealogist

    June 28, 2018
    ​There is no doubt that the Williamsburg area is steeped in history. From the first permanent British settlement in the U.S. at Jamestown to the battlefield at Yorktown, and of course Colonial Williamsburg right next to the William & Mary campus, the area it is truly America’s Historic Triangle.  

  • What does a digital scholarship librarian do anyway?

    June 20, 2018
    When people meet me, they often ask what I do, and when I give them my title, Digital Scholarship Librarian, they are just as unclear on my job duties as before they asked. Then, I flesh out the role a bit more. Essentially, I work to promote and support scholarship which goes on around campus.

  • What Happens in a Research Appointment? (RA Series #1)

    June 13, 2018
    Many students are intimidated by making a research appointment because they don't know what will or can happen. I'm here to dispel the myths and rumors around the conundrum that is the Research Appointment. This blog post will be the first in a series about how we conduct our Research Appointments.

May 2018

  • A Research Librarian's Road trip to Radford

    May 24, 2018
    Recently I had the opportunity to attend a conference at Radford University called The Innovative Library Classroom, or TILC. Radford University which is in, yep, you guessed it, Radford, Virginia, is about 270 miles from Williamsburg; therefore, road trip! The route from Williamsburg went along Interstate 64 and then south on Interstate 81.

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