UMW invites high school students to visit Simpson Library to find sources for their research projects.

UMW offers...

• More than 300,000 books.
• Approximately 200 databases, containing millions of articles.
• A selection of trustworthy websites, recommended by librarians.
• Instructions for citing sources.
• Help from reference librarians.

UMW has one library, Simpson Library, which is located on the Fredericksburg campus. High school students are welcome at Simpson Library.

Click here for hours and directions.

For each high school field trip, Simpson Library issues a free Guest Patron library card in the teacher's name. With the teacher's approval, students on the field trip may check books out using the teacher's card.

• By default, the loan period is 35 days, but high school teachers may request longer loan periods.
• Teachers can renew books that are checked out on their library cards. To renew a book, login to your online account, using the password that came with your library card. Or, call the Circulation Desk at 540-654-1125, or send an email to library@umw.edu.
• Students can return library books directly to Simpson Library. Or, they can return the books to their teacher, who can then return them to Simpson Library.
• Guest patrons may not check out DVDs, microforms, current periodicals, reserve materials, electronic equipment, or reference books.
• Guest patron cards do not grant access to Simpson's library databases.

For complete information about Guest Patron cards, see this page.

If you don't want to get a Guest Patron card, you still have several options for using Simpson's library books: