What's New

The Washington and Lee University Library has acquired online access to a major new reference work, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History.

A four-volume set in printed form, this landmark work, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, contains about 1,300 signed entries covering geography and history, comparative culture and society, organizations and movements, gender studies, other topics in world history, and biographies.

W&L researchers have access from this page in the library Web site.
This encyclopedia is one of the newest online reference works recently added to the library's collection.

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Leyburn Library is home to a display entitled "The Graphic Novel," featuring a selection of books from the library's collection chosen by Jemma Mayer, Circulation Assistant in the library. The display is located on the Main Floor lobby and will be available throughout the month of January.

What exactly is a graphic novel? For an introduction, take a look at this article from the Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English.

There are quite a few graphic novels in the library collection, but, unfortunately, they are not shelved together or gathered under any one subject label. In addition to the titles on display, you can find a few more by searching Annie under the Subject graphic novels.

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The Washington and Lee University Library has prepared a research guide for participants in the 2008 Mock Convention, which will attempt to predict the Democratic nominee for president in 2008.
Here is the research guide.

There are links to the guide in several locations in our Web site and you also can find it by using the Search This Site option to find "mock convention."

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