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BY MONTE MAXWELL
The WVU Libraries are seeking input from students, faculty and staff on the services they currently provide and what they should provide.
In a few days, about 4,000 randomly selected individuals will each receive an email requesting they participate in LibQUAL+, an online library service quality survey that takes place during the first two weeks of April.
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BY MONTE MAXWELL
Librarian emeritus Mildred I. Moyers passed away Feb. 22.
She retired in 1997 with 41 years of service to the WVU Libraries.
During her career, she served as assistant circulation librarian, cataloger, chief acquisitions librarian, chief bibliographer and interim head of cataloging. She also taught classes in cataloging and classification for the WVU Library Science Department.
She was a long time member of the West Virginia Library Association who awarded her with the 20th Dora Ruth Parks Award in 1992 for long and outstanding service to libraries and librarianship in West Virginia.
She served as editor of West Virginia Libraries and the West Virginia Union List of Serials; wrote a chapter on West Virginia union lists published in Implementing Online Union Lists of Serials: the Pennsylvania Experience; and complied A Brief History of the WV Libraries From 1931. Among her degrees was a master of arts from WVU.
Friends and family have established the Mildred Moyers Library
Collection Endowment to benefit the WVU Libraries. Memorial donations can be sent to the WVU Libraries, P.O. Box 6069, Morgantown, WV 26506-6069. Checks should be made payable to the WVU Foundation with Mildred Moyers Endowment written on the memo line.
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E-VALENTINES—Step into the past this Valentine’s Day by viewing the West Virginia and Regional History Collection’s
vintage valentines, such as the one pictured here, online at
http://www. libraries.wvu.edu/exhibits/valentine/.
CONTACT: Monte Maxwell, WVU Libraries, 304-293-4040, ext. 4004
It makes an interesting story in itself: health care professional by day, mystery writer by night.
Arthur Conan Doyle penned his Sherlock Holmes series while serving patients through his medical practice. The ophthalmologist’s story is not that unique.
Library and bookstore shelves are lined with mysteries authored by physicians, dentists, biochemists, medical records administrators, emergency medical technicians, pharmacist assistants and nurses.
Such works are the focus of an exhibit at the Health Sciences Library throughout February. The exhibit, located in the display case outside the entrance of the library, contains a selection of books, pictures of authors and Web sites. There are also a few of the villain’s tools of the trade – poisons, on loan from the University’s Pharmacy Museum.
CONTACT: Monte Maxwell, WVU Libraries, 304-293-4040, ext. 4004
In response to student demand for increased library access, the West Virginia University Downtown Campus Library will remain open until 2 a.m. Sunday through Thursday throughout the spring semester.
“Students told us they needed a place available after midnight to study, do research or finish a paper,” Libraries Dean Frances O’Brien said. “The Downtown Campus Library is a convenient location for this kind of work.”
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Amateur Genealogists – Dorothy and Gilbert Butcher of Clarksburg research their family tree in the West Virginia and Regional History Collection of the newly renovated Charles C. Wise Jr. Library.
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BY MONTE MAXWELL
WVU Libraries has begun one of the final stages in the completion of the Downtown Library Complex.
During the next few weeks, the West Virginia and Regional History Collection, along with 47,000 volumes from the general collection, and libraries faculty and staff will relocate to the renovated Charles C. Wise, Jr. Library.
The process will bring permanently improve services that students and faculty receive, but may cause some temporary inconveniences, officials explained.
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BY MONTE MAXWELL
WVU LIBRARIES
WVU Libraries has made research a little easier for psychology faculty and students with the addition of PsycARTICLES, an online database of 43 journals from the field.
“It’s the difference between night and day,” psychology professor Stan Cohen said. “The time savings alone will be incredible.”
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BY JIM DAVIS
If you have some spare time, slip on over to the Downtown Campus Library atrium and check out an exhibit on WVU’s electronic thesis and dissertation program – all to the sounds of roaring jazz and fingersnapping blues.
The exhibit includes both a physical display for traditionalists and an online version for the computersavvy.
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The West Virginia University Research Corp. has fulfilled a $1 million commitment to enhance the collection at the WVU Libraries.
John Weete, president of the Research Corp., announced that a
recent payment of more than $73,000 brought the total contribution from the Library Challenge Grant Program to $1 million.
“The West Virginia University Research Corp. has been proud to
contribute to strengthening the library resources and thus provide
additional support for WVU faculty and student researchers and scholars,” said Weete, who is also vice president of research and economic development.
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BY PAM FRONKO
WVU FOUNDATION
The West Virginia University Foundation will dedicate 771 Scholarship Bricks to serve as the foundation of a Scholars Walk at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 15, at the Downtown Library Complex.
With the Scholarship Brick Walkway, the Foundation and West
Virginia University are recognizing those donors who have invested in the lives of WVU students. Each brick is engraved with the name of an endowed scholarship created at the University.
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Move over, Book-of-the-Month Club. The WVU electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) collection has been accessed more than 2.1 million times since inception.
Implemented as a requirement in August 1998, the ETD Initiative has several purposes, including helping students promote their careers, assisting learners and researchers within and outside WVU, and making available many scholarly works that were
previously inaccessible.
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Historic Display – Harold M. Forbes, associate curator for the West Virginia and Regional History Collection, displays a first folio edition of William Shakespeare’s plays.
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WHERE GREATNESS IS READ — WVU officials dedicated the new downtown library April 10 in the multistory atrium joining the new building with the Charles C. Wise Jr. Library. Nancy Davenport, a WVU alumna who heads acquisitions at the Library of Congress, was the keynote speaker.
By Sara Bott. Staff Writer. The Daily Athenaeum
Students walking the stairways of the new Wise Library will notice the orange walls with blue hand railings surrounding them. Natural light will stream in from the windows on both sides of the building. Circles seem to dominate throughout the library.
These aspects are ones they are hoping will help students feel more comfortable in the library, according to Ruth Nellis, coordinator of library construction.
By Brad McElhinny, Charleston Daily Mail
MORGANTOWN — Packing up the contents of a library and moving them to another location is not like moving the contents of your home.
Do your spoons have to be numbered and placed in order? And if you don’t unpack a box or two as long as you own your home, will anyone care?
But when officials at West Virginia University start transferring thousands of books and periodicals to the new campus library next month, you can be sure the movers will possess expertise in moving heavy objects and in keeping them in order.
“This is like throwing the contents of 20 to 50 households all together and having everything end up in the right order,” said project coordinator Ruth Nellis. “If everything gets out of order, it’s a major problem. We’d prefer to be able to find everything.”
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CONTACT: Frances O’Brien, Dean, WVU Libraries, 304-293-4040
A student takes a break from reading to gaze out a picturesque, curved glass facade at a busy University Avenue, shade trees swaying in the breeze and the Morgantown skyline beyond.
Nearby, another student types quietly on a laptop computer.
A few feet away yet another student searches for a book among the many shelves while a fourth studies in a computer-equipped carrel.
By Sara Bott
DA Staff Writer
The new addition to the Wise Library is nearing its completion. Penny Pugh, head of reference and government information services, said the addition should be completed by the first day of the Spring 2002 semester. She also added that this date depends on the construction and any delays that might occur.
Photo by Ian Benson
The addition to Wise Library is nearing completion. The new section to the library is expected to open at the beginning of the spring semester.
By Monte Maxwell
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John Cuthbert, curator of the West Virginia and Regional History Collection, joined the ranks of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, writer Denise Giardina and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gate Jr. during an Oct. 12 ceremony in Charleston.
WVU art historian Dr. John Cuthbert has been honored by the West Virginia Humanities Council for his work in fostering the arts in the Mountain State.
Cuthbert, the author and editor of the critically acclaimed book “Early Art and Artists in West Virginia,” received the Charles H. Daugherty Award in the Humanities in Charleston.
A frequent contributor to national publications like American Music and American Art Review, Cuthbert’s other books are “David Hunter Stroher: One of the Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses,” and “The Edden Hammons Collection.”
