W&M Libraries Blog

Rachel Seitz
Posted on March 6, 2024

Our faculty at William & Mary are making great contributions to academia with their research. In our blog series, we interview faculty with recent publications for insight into their scholarship. Candice Benjes-Small, head of research at W&M Libraries, spoke to Rochelle Seitz, research professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), about her recently published book chapter entitled Ecology of the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria

Previous Posts

Mar 2016

  • Posted on March 16, 2016
    The Library of Congress's reconstruction of Thomas Jefferson's library now receives many visitors who wander through the remarkable library of a remarkable man, institutionalized at the very heart of the US government. The importance and preservation of the libraries of "great men" has been a part of our history for a long time; and most national, university, college, and other institutional libraries are based around those of white men.
  • Posted on March 9, 2016
    Napoleon and His Times, front free end paper (RB DC 203.c32 1838a)
  • Posted on March 2, 2016
    Photograph of amphitheater ruins, 1979.

Feb 2016

  • Posted on February 24, 2016
    Pirates, pirates, pirates!
  • Posted on February 10, 2016
    One of the titles we will be showing in two upcoming instruction sessions this week, the 1483 Leaves from the Ninth German Bible (Biblia Nona Germanica), is the only one of our nine titles printed before 1500 that is in a language other than Latin.
  • Posted on February 8, 2016
    The Rou
  • Posted on February 4, 2016
    Andros Copy of the Royal Charter (UA 77)
  • Posted on February 1, 2016
    Parents keep their children’s letters and drawings, now often putting them on the refrigerator. Unless the children were sent away for education, in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century, most stayed close to home and probably only wrote if a parent were away. There are some letters in our collection written by older students away at boarding school or college, but letters by very young children are few.

Jan 2016