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Library to offer stress relief activities during finals week

Posted on April 25, 2024

Final exams week can be stressful for many students. W&M Libraries reminds you to take a minute each day during finals to recharge with free activities at Swem!

Thank you to our partners: W&M Campus Recreation, McLeod Tyler Wellness Center, K-9 Connection, Marisol Lambert, Anne-Lise Gere, Kevin Downing, and Physics Department.

Previous Posts

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May 2022

  • Introducing Kaitlyn Weathers, Digitization Specialist

    Posted on May 18, 2022
    In this post, we introduce the newest member of our digital services team!  

  • Understanding Fair Use

    Posted on May 16, 2022
    Copyright legally grants for a limited time the monopolistic use of a work. The copyright holder has the sole ability to make copies, distribute, edit, perform, and display. Rather than allowing all copyrighted works to sit in a vacuum where their uses are incredibly limited to everyone except the rights holder, certain exemptions are allowed. The most familiar to us in higher education is fair use.

  • Open Pedagogy: Harnessing the power of open educational resources

    Posted on May 9, 2022
    David Wiley once said that using OER the same way we use a commercial textbook is like driving a plane down a highway, it can be done but defeats the purpose.

Apr 2022

  • Introducing Brigid Cryan, Music Library Assistant

    Posted on April 27, 2022
    In this post, we introduce W&M Libraries' new music library assistant, Brigid Cryan '22! Name: Brigid Cryan Title: Music Library Assistant

  • Like a needle in a haystack: Finding quality OER

    Posted on April 13, 2022
    Did you see our recent post introducing Open Educational Resources (OER)? If not, start there by clicking here. In this post we’ll walk through tips and tricks for finding OER in your field or discipline.

Mar 2022

  • Diving into Faculty Scholarship: Dr. Andrea Wright

    Posted on March 30, 2022
    Alexandra Flores, Instruction & Research Librarian and librarian to Anthropology, spoke to Assistant Professor, Dr. Andrea Wright, about her recently published book, “Between dreams and ghosts : Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil.”

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