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WVU alumna's gift helps preserve state history
May 14th, 2013The West Virginia and Regional History Center at the West Virginia University Libraries is already benefiting from a $100,000 donation from WVU alumnae Louise Amelia Robinson. -
WVU Honors student named Munn Library Scholar
May 14th, 2013West Virginia University Libraries has named Jessica Brielle Kawalek the 2013 Robert F. Munn Undergraduate Library Scholar. -
The West Virginia University Libraries have selected six faculty members to participate in the fifth year of its Information Literacy Course Enhancement Program, an initiative to enhance courses to help students improve their research skills and to become more discerning when searching for and using information.
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Two WVU librarians to visit China as part of exchange
May 3rd, 2013Two West Virginia University librarians will travel to China in May as part of an exchange with Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. -
WVU dean of Libraries candidates to visit campus
April 24th, 2013Three candidates for the West Virginia University dean of Libraries position will be visiting campus in the next few weeks. -
WVU Libraries helping to bridge culture gap with national grant
April 16th, 2013An award from the National Endowment for the Humanities will help the West Virginia University Libraries serve as a bridge between those who have questions about Islam and the Muslim community. -
The West Virginia University Library Faculty Assembly has selected Hilary Oblinger Fredette as the Outstanding Librarian for 2013.
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WVU Libraries renames its West Virginia and regional history area
April 16th, 2013The West Virginia University Libraries' West Virginia and Regional History Collection has a new name: the West Virginia and Regional History Center. -
WVU Downtown Campus Library now assists nonprofits seeking aid
April 3rd, 2013West Virginia University's Downtown Campus Library is offering a new service for nonprofit groups and social services agencies seeking grants to serve their communities. -
Celebrate American Archives Month at WVU's West Virginia & Regional History Collection
October 25th, 2012?Archives and Lifelong Learning? is the theme of American Archives Month. Archives such as those of the West Virginia & Regional History Collection exist not just for the use of history scholars doing ?serious research,? but also for high school students working on History Day papers, families researching the ownership of their land, and individuals writing their family histories. -
Search committee tapped to find new WVU Libraries dean
October 22nd, 2012A search committee has been formed to select a new dean for West Virginia University Libraries. The committee will be led by Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Dean Robert Jones. -
More than a milestone, NYSP's legacy is found in the magic summer memories of thousands of campers and employees from the region and the can-do spirit of WVU's College of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, which hosts and organizes the camp.
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Discover the literature of computers at WVU Libraries exhibit
June 15th, 2012An upcoming exhibit at the Downtown Campus Library will showcase a relatively new literary genre called electronic literature. "Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints," the 2012 Media Art Show curated by the Electronic Literature Organization, will run in conjunction with the organization's conference in Morgantown from June 20-23. -
Three West Virginia University Honors graduates have been named Robert F. Munn Undergraduate Library Scholars. Abigail Cioffi, Miriah Hamrick, and Jared Jones received the award at a ceremony in the Charles C. Wise Library during commencement weekend.
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A record number of West Virginia University faculty will participate in the fourth year of an initiative to help students improve their research skills and become more discerning when searching for and using information.
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As part of Faculty Academy, the West Virginia University Libraries are spotlighting the Information Literacy Course Enhancement Program and its participants.
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WVU Libraries marks Dickens' 200th birthday with exhibits, has original serial works
April 11th, 2012The WVU Libraries celebrates Dickens on his 200th birthday with exhibit and every day with original Dickens' works. -
WVU Health Sciences Library hosts exhibit on devotional art and medicine
January 23rd, 2012The West Virginia University Health Sciences Library is hosting the National Library of Medicine traveling poster exhibition Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos from Jan. 19 to Feb. 24. -
WVU Health Sciences Library director named Librarian of the Year
December 19th, 2011The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association recently named Susan Arnold, director of the WVU Health Sciences Library, its Librarian of the Year. Jana Liebermann, chair of the MAC awards committee, said the award reflects Arnold's accomplishments over the past few years. Liebermann praised Arnold's involvement with the library's move into the new Health Sciences Learning Center in 2007, the migration from print to electronic resources, and a phenomenal increase in the use of the Libraries' electronic resources. -
A centuries-old mystery hidden in WVU's Rare Book Room
December 12th, 2011Previously undiscovered poem was hiding in the back of a 1561 edition of Chaucer that had been donated to WVU decades ago. It tells quite a story of Elizabethan England.
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