In this post, we introduce the newest member of the External Relations team, Sarah Thompson!
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Jun 2022
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Posted on June 9, 2022In this post, we introduce W&M Libraries' new instruction and reference librarian, Rick Mikulski!
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Posted on June 3, 2022“Queer joy,” according to the corporate giant understanding, is made of brightly-colored silhouettes, hands clasped together, and flashy letters declaring “Proud” and “Love is Love.” This approach skyrocketed in popularity after the legalization of gay marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015.
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Posted on June 6, 2022Dr. Lawrence Lemis, a mathematics professor, discusses his new book the second edition of "Learning Base R."
May 2022
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Posted on May 18, 2022In this post, we introduce the newest member of our digital services team!
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Posted on May 16, 2022Copyright 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.
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Posted on May 9, 2022David 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
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Posted on April 27, 2022In this post, we introduce W&M Libraries' new music library assistant, Brigid Cryan '22! Name: Brigid Cryan Title: Music Library Assistant
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Posted on April 13, 2022Did 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
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Posted on March 30, 2022Alexandra 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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Posted on March 31, 2022On the 17th of October 1834, a fourteen-year-old Chinese girl arrived on the shores of New York City. The ship’s passenger list included her name as “Auphmoy” which was later phonetically shortened to Afong Moy—because of this, we do not know her real Chinese name. So began Afong Moy’s story as the first known female Chinese immigrant to the United States.