Collections

Papers of novelist and poet Valerie Nieman, a graduate of West Virginia University's journalism department. She has written books and poetry, mostly on Appalachia and themes set around Appalachian life, including To the Bones and In the Lonely Backwater. Nieman has won several awards, fellowships, and grants, including being a 2013-2014 North Carolina Arts Council poetry fellow, as well as earning a West Virginia Commission on the Arts creative writing grant.

This collection consists of print and digital copies of the Virginia Law Weekly. The periodical, managed by University of Virginia Law students, features news articles, opinion columns, humor articles, photographs, advertisements, and other content. It documents life at the School of Law, as well as student perspectives of the law and the broader world around them.

This collection contains 268 letters Virginia Scott Cocke wrote to David Russell Lyman, whom she would marry in 1905. The letters date from 1898 to 1905 and document their courtship. Also included are photographs, a postcard, a bookplate, an album, marriage certificates, transcripts of the letter, and a thumb drive.

Includes oral history recordings, transcripts, and a list of guiding questions for the interviews. These oral histories were conducted as part of a commemorative project for the 25th anniversary of the West Virginia Botanic Garden (WVBG) in Morgantown, WV and as a project for a WVU graduate-level history course. The interviewees discuss the founding of the garden, their role in its operations, notable events in WVBG history, and their hopes for the garden's future. Interviewees include Philip Smith, Executive Director of the WVBG, and Linda Bagby, longtime WVBG board member and former president of the board. Interviewers include Ashley Sellars and Sidney Stewart, two WVU Public History M.A. students.

This collection contains administrative records of the West Virginia and Regional History Center. The material includes correspondence, monthly and annual reports, visitor and acquisition statistics, Center policies and procedures, and records of preservation activities. There are also records regarding renovations and additions to WVU Libraries, and other general library documentation.

Assorted records of the University Events department of West Virginia University, including assorted photograph albums of various university events, a sizeable collection of Cat's Meow Village collectible standees of WVU buildings and buildings across West Virginia, a signed soccer ball, and other material.

The collection contains awards programs, ballots, calls for entries and comic books, graphic novels, journals, and comics-related books that were nominated for awards.

A collection of papers and records created by the Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies Department (APIA).

The collections is comprised of administrative files used by the W&M Wesley Foundation's leadership in the 2024-2025 academic year as well as newsletters and promotional materials spanning the early 2000s.

Collection contains items donated by Will Molineux, primarily through the Williamsburg Historic Records Association. Some items are personal papers including newspaper articles, belonging to Will Molineux. The photograph collection documents Williamsburg, Virginia, including James City County and York County. Subjects include people, places, buildings, events, Colonial Williamsburg as well as the College of William & Mary.