Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month
Visit Sawyer Library to view a display in celebration of Latinx Heritage Month. The display highlights recent and upcoming events at Williams, supplemented by relevant library materials. Continue reading »
Visit Sawyer Library to view a display in celebration of Latinx Heritage Month. The display highlights recent and upcoming events at Williams, supplemented by relevant library materials. Continue reading »
Special Collections is delighted to welcome a new Project Archivist to the staff, Laurel Rhame. Laurel comes to Williams by way of The Morton Arboretum, located in Lisle, Illinois. Continue reading »
Are you working on an in-depth research project? Need help with keeping track of your research materials and formatting your citations and bibliographies? Attend an EndNote workshop to learn how it can help. Workshop Schedule Tuesday, October 10 Sawyer Library Option 1: 11:00 a.m. – noon Option 2: 8:00 – 9:00… Continue reading »
Created by Christine Tamir ’18, the display features Sawyer Library materials depicting the major themes from Antigone in Ferguson: tragedy, race-based violence, the interaction between citizens and the law, and the sentiments surrounding those themes. The display is organized in three sections: the classic Greek tragedy, the political climate, and… Continue reading »
The Antigone of Sophocles is being discussed in multiple venues on the Williams campus this semester. The Antigone Project, a course in comparative literature and theater, explores the richness and meaning of the play by understanding it as a performance, social practice, text, translation, and adaptation. On Saturday September 30,… Continue reading »
Frank Lloyd Wright: Building the Williams Collection is now on view in the Chapin Gallery (Sawyer Library Room 406). This autumn exhibition marks the 150th birthday of the renowned American architect and celebrates the growth of the extensive collection devoted to Wright held in the Chapin Library. Featured designs by… Continue reading »
Williams Reads Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, is a moving account of the work of the Equal Justice Initiative founded by the author. The work of obtaining justice for those wrongly imprisoned by a system that has not moved forward from the time of To Kill a Mockingbird is extremely challenging and frustrating. Continue reading »
The Center for Environmental Studies turns 50 this year! To honor this milestone, the College Archives has curated an exhibit highlighting the Center's history since its founding in 1967. Visit the exhibit in the Steven Schow '81 Gallery in Special Collections, fourth floor of Sawyer Library. Continue reading »
Not everything in Special Collections is old: our student assistant Nambi Williams finished cataloging a new collection of more than 450 photobooks, all published between 1970 and 2016. Continue reading »
The Chapin Library’s display of Audubon‘s Birds of America in the original double elephant folio presents a different plate once every two or three weeks, on view in the Steven Schow ’81 Gallery (Sawyer 455), during regular Special Collections hours. Continue reading »
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