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Funding secured for congressional archives enhancements, civics and history education

WVU Libraries received $1.5 million in congressionally directed spending to expand utility, usability and capacity of the American Congress Digital Archives Portal and to equip West Virginia and other states' K-12 educators with resources and tools for refortified civics and history education.

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A new temporary exhibit, “The Tradition of the White Coat,” is now on display at the William A. Neal Museum of the Health Sciences.

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Neal Museum invited West Virginia healthcare workers to submit objects that represented their personal story of resilience and avoiding burnout. The resulting exhibit, “Getting Through: Healthcare Worker Resilience in West Virginia,” is now on display.

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WVU Libraries received $250,000 in congressionally directed spending to improve classroom technology at the Downtown and Evansdale libraries, making them more hybrid-friendly.

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The West Virginia and Regional History Center received a $162,155 grant — its sixth from the National Endowment for the Humanities — to continue digitizing newspapers published in West Virginia from 1791 to 1927.

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The Art in the Libraries Committee and Dean of Libraries Karen Diaz selected Lilly Adkins, a junior double majoring in painting and sculpture, and Kieah Hamric, a sophomore majoring in graphic design, to receive theDean of Libraries’ Student Arts Award.

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Lori Hostuttler was named director of the West Virginia and Regional History Center on May 1.

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Katie Thompson joined the West Virginia University Libraries as curator of the William A. Neal Museum of the Health Sciences in the Health Sciences Center. Thompson will lead in the development of new exhibits and programming for the museum.

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"West Virginia is a Fixed Fact." The line comes from a journal belonging to Waitman T. Willey, a founding father and one of the Mountain State’s first U.S. senators.

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The hacker ethos in the positive sense is about the ability to deconstruct and reconstruct information systems. Hacking starts with reconceptualizing libraries. Libraries are now beyond the book.

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Stephen Crane, perhaps best known for his novel “The Red Badge of Courage,” read by high schoolers in English classes all over America, is less well known for a volume of poetry titled “War is Kind.”

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