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 »
Declutter Your Digital Life! Personal Hackathon for Digital Sustainability + Space Organization Williams Libraries & The Zilkha Center | February 11, 2020 When: Feb 11th, 3pm – 4:15pm Where: Library Instruction Lab Sawyer 328 Bring: Yourself; Others (to work on organizing shared digital space); Laptop (if you do not have access to one please reach… 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. 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 »
In commemoration of First-Generation College Celebration Day this display features books by and about prominent figures who also identify as first-generation students. Located in Sawyer Library's Lippmann Atrium. Continue reading »
Five lovely pastel portraits by Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) are on display through December in the Steven Schow ’81 Gallery (Sawyer 455), Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. They are only a few of nearly 350 drawings, paintings, and prints given to the Chapin Library… Continue reading »
This new exhibit features books that display the strange, out of the ordinary, and bizarre creatures and phenomena in science. Demogorgons not included. Located in the display case outside of Schow Science Library. Continue reading »
November 2 2018, beginning at 8:30am. ProShred, a professional confidential disposition company, will shred (on-site at the Library Shelving Facility) records in need of destruction. If you have materials to shred, see full post for details. Continue reading »
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