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A librarian holds a microphone while answering questions
Posted on April 23, 2024

"People Behind the Events You Love" is an occasional series highlighting the work we do to make events happen. In this story, Liz Bellamy, Alexandra Flores Glosson, and Paul Showalter from the Research and Instruction department, discuss the recent library career showcase.

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Jun 2019

May 2019

  • Edmund Mitchell daguerreotype
    Posted on May 23, 2019
    A daguerreotype of a young Baltimore merchant, the first victim of a bitter, homicidal political era, resides in the Special Collections Research Center in Swem Library—a ghostly message from the past.
  • Posted on May 14, 2019
    The Reverend Curtis W. Harris is best known for his role in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Civil Rights organization founded by Martin Luther King, Jr., though he has not been studied closely by historians.

Apr 2019

Mar 2019

  • Shaver's Singers
    Posted on March 14, 2019
    A broadside for the performance of a traveling minstrel show, advertising “an evening of singing, dancing, music, and jokes,” caught the attention of a student in the Special Collections Reading Room this past week.
  • Posted on March 18, 2019
    W&M Libraries is lucky to have many talented student employees. Today's post will introduce Alicia Draper.
  • Posted on 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.

Jan 2019