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Apply by June 5 for graduate student research workshop

Apply for the WVU Libraries August 2026 Graduate Student Library Immersion Program, a 3-day intensive workshop designed to improve participants’ research skills. The program will be held August 10-12 in the Downtown Library. The application deadline is June 5.

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Welcome Dean Mark Paris!

On April 27, Mark Paris started as dean of WVU Libraries and Press, and is already championing a future of innovation and strategy for WVU Libraries — which stewards 2.8 million unique titles, nearly 700 research databases, 245,000 journals and newspapers, and more.

Meet Dean Paris

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Join WVRHC for WV Day on June 18!

As America celebrates its semiquincentennial, the WVRHC invites the WVU community and the public to honor both this momentous anniversary and West Virginia Day on June 18 at 2 p.m. in the Milano Reading Room of the Downtown Library. Honor West Virginia and reflect on the history and culture of the Mountain State in the last 250 years with us.

RSVP for WV Day

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Robert F. Munn Library Scholars Award now open for submissions

WVU Libraries invites undergraduate students who wrote an exceptional humanities or social sciences research paper this 2025-26 academic year to submit their work by June 5 for consideration for the Robert F. Munn Library Scholars Award.

Apply for Award

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Funding secured for full-time women’s collections archivist

Thanks to a generous donation from West Virginia Feminist Activist and Women's History Collection Advisory Board member Deb Miller, the WVRHC will continue its mission to discover, preserve, and share the stories of women who shaped the Appalachian region via a full-time women’s collections archivist.

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