This year William & Mary’s Earl Gregg Swem Library marks its 50th anniversary. A half a century ago, the campus celebrated the opening of its new library building, named after Swem, who served as ...

Swem Library is named in honor of Earl Gregg Swem, who served as the college librarian at William & Mary from 1920 to 1944. Under his leadership, the library collection grew from 25,000 books and ...

A frisbee, photographs, bottle caps, bookmarks and screws, Easter eggs, pamphlets, punch cards, paperclips, Pokemon cards, pencils, postcards, an 1884 Western Union telegram, stickers, a picture of a ...

I recently was asked by the College of William and Mary Library Swem’s Special Collections Research Center to participate in their oral history project. According to a Swem Library news release, “Over ...

Not only Virginians but researchers from across the nation and across the Atlantic have reason to be interested in the Swem Library at The College of William and Mary particularly its manuscript and ...

Because of the pandemic, the Williamsburg office for The Virginia Gazette, has been closed, thus, the incoming mail piled up. Among the unsorted mail included some addressed to me, but the delayed ...