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 »
Selections from the documents in this collection will be on view in the Chapin Gallery, room 406 of Sawyer Library at Williams College, during special events and programs, including the college’s 4th of July readings. During the remainder of the year, the documents are housed in a zero-light storage facility… Continue reading »
This summer, Brieanna Chillious served as an Archives Intern for Williams College Special Collections in Sawyer Library, and processed a recent donation of the Luther Richardson Fowle (Williams 1908) Papers. Fowle was a missionary and treasurer for the American Board of Commissioners on Foreign Missions. Continue reading »
Before (or after) viewing – safely! – the Great American Eclipse on August 21st, be sure to visit the Special Collections Instruction Gallery for a display of related works from the 1476 Calendarium of Regiomontanus to Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), drawn from the collections of… Continue reading »
Our library catalog is getting a makeover in August! The new interface incorporates a flat, responsive design that provides a more intuitive user experience. This allows users to get to the information they need more quickly. You can get a sneak preview* of the new look, and make sure… Continue reading »
“Foundations of the Earth: The Literature of Geology” presents rare books of the 15th to 19th centuries from the Chapin Library’s collections to celebrate 200 years of teaching Geosciences at Williams. Complementing the Archives exhibition in the Steven Schow ’81 Gallery (Sawyer 455), the new display looks at the larger… Continue reading »