Work at SCRC Involves More than Books: An Intern's Perspective
“You work at the library? So, do you put books away and stuff?”
Er – no.
“You work at the library? So, do you put books away and stuff?”
Er – no.
From the warm and welcoming reading room to the frigid ground floor stacks, the Special Collections Research Center offers a wealth of historical resources, right at the heart of campus.
What is the difference between printing and publishing? This is perhaps something many of us don’t think about, but there is a difference.
Swem Library holds two editions of A grammar of the English tongue, with the arts of logick, rhetoric, poetry, &c., but it is in the earlier one, printed in 1714, that we find something
Many of the treasures in Special Collections don’t actually live in the stacks downstairs but are instead housed in Swem Library’s Offsite Stacks (SOSS).
It may seem like Spanish empire in the Americas would have little to do with European politics, but we should not assume that the Atlantic world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was any l
The College of William and Mary was founded before the City of Williamsburg, the former in 1693, the latter in 1699.
Swem Library has a great many books in very bad bindings. Most modern books, for instance, are held together only by glue at the spine. Even modern hardcovers have the same binding.
On April 6, 1917 the United States entered World War I, then known as the Great War. A century later, objects in Special Collections reveal memories of Americans’ lives at wartime.