Food is ubiquitous but such a meaningful part of our lives. Williams Foodways presents photographs, letters, menus, yearbooks and account books to uncover what we ate, where it came from, where we ate and with whom from the 1790s to the present. Come experience salmon wiggle on rusk as… Continue reading »
Since we launched the new library catalog in July 2016, we’ve been gathering feedback from users about what works, and what doesn’t. In response to what doesn’t work, we’ve made a number of enhancements to improve the user experience. Visit our catalog enhancements page to see what we’ve… Continue reading »
Join us at Schow Science Library room 027 on Thursday, September 12th. We will stream the live webcast of the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. Enjoy free popcorn and beverages. Improbable Research’s goal is to make people LAUGH, then THINK. They also hope to spur people’s curiosity, and to raise… Continue reading »
A World of Comparisons documents European efforts to make sense of the diversity of humankind during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Writing in a wide variety of genres, from dictionaries and grammars to histories, geographies, travel accounts, and costume books, Europeans sought to understand other… Continue reading »
As one of the two presidential records interns for summer 2019, Jean Kim arranged and described the papers of Williams president James P. Baxter III. Following Tyler Dennett’s three-year presidency, Baxter became the tenth president of the college in 1937 and served for twenty-four years until 1961. The various… Continue reading »
Companion exhibit to Exit West, the 2019 Williams Reads book. Designed by Research Services Summer Student Nasir Grissom, the display is organized around three central themes in the book: nativism, imaginary borders, and connection . Read the Curator's Statement Copies of Exit West are available at Sawyer Library, Schow Library and the Williams bookstore. Continue reading »
Over the past eight weeks the presidential records interns for summer 2019 arranged and described the papers of William College’s ninth and tenth presidents, Tyler Dennett and James P. Baxter III. Though our primary goal was to make these papers accessible by standardizing titles, delineating the papers into series,… Continue reading »
This exhibit features a selection of books from Schow which celebrate Apollo 11 and the astronauts who made history. Located in the display case outside of Schow Science Library. Continue reading »
A selection of materials from Williams Special Collections speak to the idealism of an inclusive franchise, as well as the factionalism the permeated the suffragist movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Continue reading »
This year’s reading will take place inside Sawyer Library. On July 4th the Chapin Library and the Williamstown Theatre Festival will once again mark Independence Day with readings of the Declaration of Independence and other American documents. Sawyer Library, 1:30 p.m., admission free. Actors (Priscilla Lopez, Warner Miller, Thomas Sadoski,… Continue reading »
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