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This collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles. Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles, military records, and more. Other formats include photographs, slides, and audiocassettes.

Publications, sound recordings, and other material documenting the career of Ann Magnuson, an actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer who grew up in Charleston, West Virginia. She worked at Club 57 in New York, a gathering place for artists such as Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf.

This collection contains the papers of Bonnie L. Brown, a feminist activist and former representative in the West Virginia House of Delegates (1982-2012). The majority of materials are various collected papers from conferences and events Brown attended between 1974 and 2022.

This collection contains materials collected and created by Carrie Koeturius during her time as an activist in Morgantown, West Virginia. It includes materials related to activist and advocacy organizations such as the Artemis Sisters, Sisterspace, and Women's Information Center. It also contains materials related to her activities at WVU concerning the Women and Creativity conferences in 1984 and 1998 and personal achievements, such as her receiving the Mary Catherine Buwell Award and Women Helping Women Award.

This collection contains materials collected and created by Carroll Wilkinson during her time working for West Virginia University (WVU) Libraries and Women's and Gender Studies Center between 1979 and 2019. It includes materials from her work in several positions within the library and WVU Women's Studies Center, including Chief Circulation Librarian, Women and Gender Studies Bibliographer, Head of Access Services, Director of Instruction and Information Literacy, Director of Strategic Library Initiatives, and Interim Director of Strategy and Planning. It also includes materials from her participation in several councils and committees, such as the Council for Women's Concerns and the Gerontology Center Service Committee.

This collection includes materials pertaining to Christine Weiss Daugherty and her work with women's economic development, rural economic development, non-profit management, and international development.

Papers of Appalachian author Denise Giardina, whose 1987 novel Storming Heaven received the W. D. Weatherford Award, and 1992 novel The Unquiet Earth received the American Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award for fiction. The collection includes research notebooks and draft manuscripts of her historical novels Good King Harry, Storming Heaven, The Unquiet Earth, Saints and Villains, and Emily's Ghost.