If current restrictions on travel and campus activities are lifted, Williams College Special Collections Department will be pleased to again offer a short-term fellowship to an individual conducting on-site research in the Paul Whiteman collection. The 1-2-week fellowship includes the cost of travel to Williamstown and accommodations within… Continue reading »
"Endangered, Extinct, Sublime: New World Colonialism and Climate Change" examines the description and depiction of settler colonialism and its relationship to the climate through three tropes: the Endangered, the Extinct, and the Sublime. This exhibit is on display in the Chapin Gallery (4th floor of Sawyer Library) during regular Special Collections hours through the end of June 2020. Continue reading »
As part of the College's Sondheim@90@Williams celebration, the Archives is hosting photographs, compositions, programs and articles presenting Stephen Sondheim as writer, composer, actor and classmate during his time at Williams. Continue reading »
To celebrate the launch of the library's circulating zine collection, join us on March 4 for a panel discussion with zine librarian Jenna Freedman, and zine makers Haley Bossé '20 and Andrew Cornell as they discuss zines, zine-making practices and the place of zines in higher education and libraries. [3:30 PM Sawyer 24/7 Reading Room]. The panel discussion will be followed by an zine-making workshop at 5:30 PM. More information at: https://libguides.williams.edu/zines Continue reading »
People of color (POC) have made invaluable contributions to all scientific disciplines and subjects, including space exploration (Mae Jemison, Katherine Johnson, Annie Easley), environmental conservation (George Washington Carver), drug synthesis (Percy Julian), and neurosurgery (Alexa Canady). These contributions have saved lives and improved our understanding of our universe… Continue reading »
Wednesday February 12, 7-10pm: Mark your calendars for the first ever Williams College transcribe-a-thon in Sawyer Library (Stetson Reading Room). We will transcribe original documents from the college’s early history. Come to help write history, stay for cookies and good cheer!… Continue reading »
A new student-curated exhibit in our Special Collections Instruction Gallery celebrates Poetry and Second Wave Feminism. Students in Dr. Bethany Hicok’s ENGL113 course have selected, researched, and presented materials that contribute to creating the rich intertextual story of the feminist poetics and politics they have been studying this semester. The… Continue reading »
Williams Libraries has received collections of books, manuscripts, and record albums documenting the life and work of one of America’s most influential poets and scholars Sterling Allen Brown, a class of 1922 graduate of Williams College. Continue reading »
When you search the library catalog you will now come across a new way to access scholarly articles. It is called Unpaywall and is designed to put the free versions of scholarly articles at the forefront. For searching outside of the library catalog, Unpaywall also offers a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Once installed, the extension displays a green icon when the paywalled paper you're viewing is OA available. Continue reading »
The default catalog settings allowed only one person or entity to be recognized as the primary “author” or “creator” of a work. Anyone else involved was listed as a “contributor,” regardless of their role, and their name was not display under the books title in the list of search results. Continue reading »