Library Tuesday Teas 2024
After an extended pandemic related hiatus, we’re delighted to announce the return of the library’s Tuesday Teas series and for the opportunity to hear faculty reflect on the story of research, writing...
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¡Unidos!: 20 años of Latinx Studies at Williams: exhibit in Special Collections
¡Unidos!: 20 años of Latinx Studies at Williams: on view now in Schow Gallery, Special Collections (4th floor of Sawyer Library). Special Collections, in collaboration with the Latino/a Studies Program...
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150 Years of Stories: Williamstown’s Public Library
This snapshot of the year 1874 is selected from the holdings of Williams Special Collections, recognizing the 150th anniversary of the founding of our town’s public library, now known as the Milne...
View ArticleWilliams Libraries Diversity and Inclusion Activity 2022 and 2023
In January of 2022 we published a news item published on the Libraries’ website that listed the ways in which we as a library had sought to take action on issues of diversity and inclusion. We had been...
View ArticleResearch as Practice: Research Journals Drop In Series: Friday 3/8 @ 9:30 am
Research is a practice of finding, thinking, connecting, and starting again. Notebooks are a valuable tool to record your thinking and engage it with curiosity. This drop in session is a...
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Break through paywalls with LibKey Nomad, a new research tool that will help connect you to library resources when you’re doing research on the open web or in databases like PubMed or Google Scholar....
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Libraries celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility
Each year on March 31, the world observes Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) to raise awareness about transgender people. It is a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people, while...
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Tuesday Teas: professor Olga Shevchenko (April 16)
Join professor of sociology Olga Shevchenko as she discusses researching and writing her book In Visible Presence. Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos. MIT Press, 2023. Tuesday April 16, 2024. 4PM,...
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What Came Before Us: Celebrating Thirty Years of WAAAAN, Williams Asian and...
What Came Before Us: Celebrating Thirty Years of WAAAAN, Williams Asian and Asian American Alumni Network is on view now until summer 2024 in the Instruction Gallery, Special Collections (4th floor of...
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Now on Display: “Like mint in a wall crack” Arab-American Poets at Work
“When a people leaves the dry, hot lands of civilization’s oldest cities (Damascus, Byblos, Jericho) and finds itself in one of the youngest countries on earth – what happens? For one thing, poetry....
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Dana Nakano talk: Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform
Please join Dr. Dana Nakano (CSU Stanislaus) in the Sawyer Library reading room on Monday, April 22nd at 4:15pm for a talk on his new book, Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform: Citizenship,...
View ArticleIntroducing: Collections as Data
Are you interested in investigating innovative uses for the digital objects and other materials held in the Libraries? Then we invite you to take a look at the Libraries’ Collections as Data project....
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Tuesday Teas: professor Elizabeth Elmi (April 30)
Join professor of music Elizabeth Elmi as she discusses researching and writing the book Singing Lyric in the Kingdom of Naples. Written Record of an Oral Practice. Schott Campus, 2023 Tuesday April...
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Now on Display: Mental Health Zines
Located in Schow Library, this display observes Mental Health Awareness month through zines from the Libraries’ circulating collection. Established in 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month brings...
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Now on Display in Sawyer: From Everywhere – Jewish American Heritage in the...
Just like the Jewish diaspora, resources that explore Jewish American heritage are from everywhere in Sawyer. In commemoration of Jewish American Heritage month, celebrated in May, this display...
View ArticleJSTOR ebook availability on 5/23
Due to scheduled maintenance, some JSTOR ebooks will be unavailable between 8am May 23 and 8am May 24. After 8am May 24, all access will be restored, and you shouldn’t experience any differences in...
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Echoes of the Archives: A Sonic Study of Special Collections
On view May 31 through June 8, 2024 in the Weber reading room, special collections (4th floor of Sawyer Library). Special Collections, in collaboration with Darlie Kerns ’24, emeritus professor Brad...
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The Chapin Library of Rare Books at Williams College will host its annual July 4th reading of historical documents by actors from the Williamstown Theatre Festival at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 4,...
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Fragments and Fragmentology: The Breaking and Reconstructing of Medieval...
Please join Rose McCandless, Manuscript Data Curation Fellow for the Digital Scriptorium consortium, for a talk and interactive session on the history of biblioclasm and systematic fragmentation of...
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