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Appalachian Collection

Web site: http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/appalachian/
Contact: Jo. Brown at: Jo.Brown@mail.wvu.edu

WVU Libraries maintains one of the nation's best collections on Appalachian regional culture. Appalachia, an area surrounding the Appalachian Mountains from New York to Mississippi, encompasses all of West Virginia and portions of 12 other states. Like New England, the South, the Northwest and Southwest, Appalachia is a unique cultural area of the United States with special traditions, folkways, dialects, values, and problems.

The core of the Appalachian Collection numbers over 5000 volumes and is housed in the Appalachian Collection at the Downtown Campus Library. Books and journals are arranged A to Z, according to the Library of Congress Classification System. With an emphasis on the Social Sciences, subjects include: coal miners; music; pollution; crafts; folk customs; religion; poverty; wildlife; social conditions; Cherokee Indians; and much more.