Mountaineer Spirit
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.
Mountaineer Spirit
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.
Mountaineer Spirit
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.
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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By Amy Quigley
When Eleanor McDonald came to WVU 40 years ago, she was accompanying a cousin who was applying for a job. McDonald herself ended up working in Wise Library’s Cataloging Department and has never left.
