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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.

Papers, 1973-2011, of Arliss Shaffer Monk (1921-2013) of Greeley, Colorado, containing genealogical research on the Barkham, Corbin, Eltonhead, Ijams, Jenings, Philips, and Waters families of Lancaster, Loudoun, Middlesex, and York Counties, Virginia, and Maryland and England. The collection includes correspondence and research notes, and abstracts, copies, and transcriptions of census records, church records, court records, deeds, estate administration records, tax records, tombstone inscriptions, vital statistics, and wills. There are also guidebooks to Bruton Parish churchyard in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire, England.

Papers, 1972-1981, of Heyward Milhollin Braddock (1901-1981) of Arlington, Virginia, containing genealogical research on the Braddock family, and the allied families of Bond, Canaday, DuBois, Hardee, Henkel/Henkle, Hough, McClintic, Milhollin, Shanklin, and Van Meter. Areas covered include Bath, Frederick, Loudoun, and Shenandoah Counties, Virginia, and Florida, Georgia, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, and West Virginia. There are copies and transcriptions of cemetery records, census records, deeds, family letters, marriage records, military and pension records, parish registers, and wills, as well as extracts from published genealogies and local histories, correspondence with family members and other researchers, charts and pedigrees, clippings, and obituaries.

The papers of the Cocke family of Fluvanna County, Virginia, and related Barraud family, Faulcon family, and other families, consist of ca. 25,000 items, (194 Hollinger boxes, ca. 64.5 linear shelf feet), 1725- 1939, and contains correspondence, legal and financial papers, diaries of John Hartwell Cocke, Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, and Lucy Cocke, minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University ofVirginia, diagrams and sketches concerning the University, bound volumes, sketches and drawings, college and school notes, poetry, orations and speeches, essays, genealogy, and lists pertaining to agriculture, music and other subjects.