As a partial depository for federal documents, Sawyer Library owns a variety of government publications focusing on women's health, women's legal issues, women in the workforce, and other gender-related topics. The Library also subscribes to over thirty feminist and Gender Studies periodicals, including Gender and Society, Frontiers, and Signs. The reference librarians are also available to answer further questions and assist in research on gender issues. Among this collection is material that documents the implementation of coeducation at Williams and the life of women at the College. The Archives also house a Shaker collection, which provides views of women's lives within this community.
Librarians are always on hand to assist with research.
The Archives are open Monday through Friday, from 9am to 12pm and 1pm to 5pm. The Chapin Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts, on the second floor of Steton, includes books about women and by women writers of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Issues of gender, sexuality, marriage, children, and education are documented in nearly three hundred unique books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and letters. Chapin Library also owns a collection of historical children's books, as well as the Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Eugenia Osborne papers. The OCC takes an active interest in helping women find employment and internships in their chosen field.