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
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Mar 2016
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Posted on March 16, 2016The 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.
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Posted on March 9, 2016Napoleon and His Times, front free end paper (RB DC 203.c32 1838a)
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Posted on March 2, 2016Photograph of amphitheater ruins, 1979.
Feb 2016
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Posted on February 24, 2016Pirates, pirates, pirates!
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Posted on February 10, 2016One 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.
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Posted on February 8, 2016The Rou
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Posted on February 4, 2016Andros Copy of the Royal Charter (UA 77)
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Posted on February 1, 2016Parents 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
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Posted on January 20, 2016Before superhero and princess Valentine’s Day cards, we had Lord Byron.
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Posted on January 6, 2016None of the books from the first library of William & Mary survived the 170