The annual event is a creation of the Women of Appalachia Project (WOAP) who issues a call to residents throughout Appalachia. This year’s participants hail from West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina.
“Many people have an image of an Appalachian woman, and they look down on her. The mission of WOAP is to showcase the way in which female artists respond to the Appalachian region as a source of inspiration, bringing together women from diverse backgrounds, ages and experiences to embrace the stereotype – to show the whole woman; beyond the superficial factors that people use to judge her,” said Kari Gunter-Seymour, WOAP founder and executive director.
The Health Sciences Library will be closed Saturday, Oct. 17, as parking lots around and bus service to the Health Sciences Center will be unavailable due to game day. The library will be open Sunday from 2 p.m.-midnight. For a complete list of WVU Libraries hours visit the Libraries’ website, wvu.libcal.com/hours.
In commemoration of the Suffrage Centennial, the WVULibraries’Art in the Libraries Virtual Program will host Becky Cain Ceperley, former National League of Women Voters president, for a talk on the impact of voter registration and turnout on Friday, Oct. 9, from noon-1 p.m.
Ceperley is an at-large member of the Charleston City Council and serves as its president. She’s a former member of the Public Policy Committee of the Council on Foundations; national Executive Committee of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; the Advisory Committee on Election Law to the American Bar Association; the national Campaign Finance Institute; and the West Virginia Election Commission. Ceperley is also a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from WVU’s Political Science Department and the Eberly College of Arts and Science.
The face mask has become a symbol of our times, an emblem to illustrate the COVID-19 pandemic. It is also a signal of caring and a gesture of community amidst the upheaval of our daily life.
West Virginia UniversityLibraries is accepting creative photos of masks from the WVU and local community – whether personally crafted, purchased, gifted, picked up at a free stand or imagined – for a juried online exhibit to launch in December.
The Downtown Campus Library returns to regular service hours Wednesday after a week of temporarily adjusted hours because of a COVID-19 exposure in Access Services on Sept. 19.
The Downtown Campus Library will be open from 7:30 a.m.-midnight Wednesday and Thursday. Hours for all WVU Libraries buildings are available on the Libraries’ website, wvu.libcal.com/hours.
The Downtown Campus Library will continue with temporarily adjusted hours this weekend and next week following a COVID-19 exposure in Access Services on Sept. 19.
The area was disinfected as part of routine daily cleaning protocols, but several staff are required to quarantine resulting in a shift in services hours until further notice. The temporary hours of operation are:
This weekend, the Downtown Campus library will be closed Saturday and open Sunday from noon-5 p.m. Evansdale Library will be open Saturday from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sunday from noon-midnight.
Next week, the Downtown Library will be open Monday-Wednesday from 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m., and the Evansdale Library will be open Monday-Wednesday from 7:30 a.m.-midnight. Downtown will resume regular hours on Thursday.
Hours for all WVU Libraries buildings are available on the Libraries’ website.
The Downtown Campus Library will close at 8 p.m. today (Sept. 21) after being notified of a COVID-19 exposure in Access Services.
The area was disinfected as part of routine daily cleaning protocols, but several staff are required to quarantine resulting in a shift in services hours until further notice. The temporary hours of operation are:
Cook (1861-1941) was a gifted orator and respected leader in women’s suffrage, temperance, the fine arts and education. After graduating from Storer College at Harpers Ferry in 1881, she became the school’s first female instructor of African American descent. Cook went on to teach elocution at Howard University, establishing it as a permanent part of the curriculum and the foundation of their drama department.
The Downtown Campus, Evansdale and Health Sciences libraries and libraries at WVU Tech and Potomac State College are now open for students, staff and faculty. The Law Library is open to Law faculty and staff, and will open for Law students on Aug. 15.
The West Virginia and Regional History Center is open to the University community by appointment only. To schedule a visit email wvrhcref@mail.wvu.edu or call 304-293-3536.
Users will be required to swipe their ID card for access to the Downtown Campus, Evansdale and Law libraries. Also, they need to follow the health and safety protocols of mask-wearing and physical distancing.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment to the U. S. Constitution (granting women the right to vote), and the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (enforcing voting rights for racial minorities), this exhibition centers on efforts to suppress the votes of women and minorities since 1920.
“This exciting exhibit is timely not only due to the anniversaries of voter inclusion events in our nation’s history, but also timely due to new questions around access to voting that have arisen during this time of COVID-19,” Dean of Libraries Karen Diaz said. “I think everyone will enjoy the artistic approach to presenting the issues through the campaign button motif.”
The outrage, anger, and sadness of George Floyd’s murder is palpable in our community, nation and world. I share those sentiments and like many think “these killings have got to stop”. We know systemic racism and violence against Black people are not new problems, but we have reached a new crescendo.
I have struggled personally with how to respond from the WVU Libraries. I have been leery of creating yet one more statement in a sea of statements. It’s too easy to say something – but so hard to create meaningful change. At the same time, I recognize that there is a need to verbalize intention if we want to move our organization in a new direction. I was pleased that our university president has led with such a statement and has challenged me, as a part of the WVU community to act.
One hundred years ago, West Virginia legislators met at the State Capitol in Charleston to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended voting rights to women. West Virginia UniversityLibraries and the West Virginia and Regional History Center will mark the milestone with an online West Virginia Day program on Saturday, June 20, at 10 a.m.
“All of us at WVU Libraries are pleased to name Iain MacKay, Jordan Nistendirk and Jack Steketee as Munn Scholars,” Dean of Libraries Karen Diaz said. “Despite all of the challenges surrounding COVID-19, such as a closed campus, they exceeded expectations in the research they conducted and the impressive works of scholarship they produced.”
Frances O’Brien, former Dean of West Virginia University
Libraries, passed away Friday, May 8, at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her daughter,
EJ Painter, was with her.
O’Brien served as dean of Libraries from June 1999 until her
retirement in December 2011. During her tenure, she oversaw the construction of
the Downtown Campus Library and the Library’s state-of-the-art Book Depository
as well as renovations to the Wise Library and Evansdale Library. In addition,
she worked to implement multiple technological enhancements.
West Virginia UniversityLibraries will debut its exhibit
“Undefeated: Canvas(s)ing the Politics of Voter Suppression Since Women’s
Suffrage” as an online exhibition in August 2020, followed by a print
installation in spring of 2021 at the Downtown Campus Library.
“Undefeated,” the Libraries’ third large collaborative
exhibition, brings together several on and off campus partners. The exhibit
includes educational content curated by a committee of regional experts, and
visual art and designs submitted by nationally known artists.
If you need help with final projects and papers, there
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Wishing you all a successful end to this extraordinary semester,
WVU Libraries and the WVU Humanities Center are partnering with the Department of Geology and Geography this Earth Day as part of the Local to Global Film Series. Join us online for a group viewing of “The Return of Navajo Boy” on Wednesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. via Kanopy, the WVU Libraries’ streaming film database.
While working on an interdisciplinary volume exploring how the
American dime novel genre assisted in spreading discriminatory notions of
Italian immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Caronia
found, “…Dime novels reinforce racist and ethnic stereotypes not only of
Italian immigrants, but also indigenous, black, and Chinese individuals and
communities.”
