31st Virginia Infantry Regiment Documents

This digital collection includes scans of more than 3000 documents relating to the 31st Virginia Regiment of the Confederate Army.

African Americans in the Monticola 1957-1964

This exhibit consists of photos of African American students from the West Virginia University's yearbook, the Monticola, 1957-1964.

Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Bulletins, 1970s-present

In 1888, the West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station began publishing these bulletins under the title original title Bulletin of the West Virginia Agricultural Station.

Bibliographer: Noel Kopriva

Art History Digital Image Database (AHDID)

This collection is treated as a course reserve for WVU faculty and students and is password protected.

BBC Theater Collection

Streaming videos purchased with copyright clearance from commercial vendors can be accessed on our website.

Boydell's Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

This collection includes “100 elegant engravings” from this rare and delicate 1805 edition of Boydell's Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.

Center for Research Libraries

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. Scholars and researchers from CRL member institutions have free and unlimited use of the CRL collections through ILL.<

Bibliographer: Penny Pugh

Child Ballads of West Virginia

This digital resource consists of a lecture recital on the subject of traditional folk ballads of West Virginia by Patrick Ward Gainer (1904-1981).

Claude W. Benedum Lectures

Each year since 1981, West Virginia University's Distinguished Professors and speakers from various institutions and think tanks present a series of lectures that are open to the public and are at a level that can be understood by a general audience.

David Copperfield

Browse through 23 illustrations from the first edition of Charles Dickens's "favourite child."

Digitized Books from the Internet Archive

Selected books digitized from the collections of West Virginia University in cooperation with the Internet Archive.

Drawings of David Hunter Strother

This digital resource consists of a catalog and exhibit of drawings by David Hunter Strother from the West Virginia & Regional History Center.

Electronic Journals

The Electronic Journals Collection consists of electronic journals, magazines, newspapers, and books. Use the search box to search for a specific title when you know it, or browse by subject, letter of the alphabet, or collection. When a full citati

Bibliographer: Linda Blake

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Searching, browsing, access, and support from the WVU Electronic Theses and Dissertation Initiative.

Bibliographer: Molly Dolan

Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series

This digital collection includes more than 850 telegrams documenting Pierpont’s efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia in the first two years of the Civil War.

Government Documents

As the Federal regional depository library in West Virginia, we are committed to providing free access to government information.

Bibliographer: Christine Chang

Grace Edwards Waters: A Devoted Life

A collection of Grace Waters' personal memorabilia is in the care of Special Collections at the WVU Libraries.

History in Photos

This is the Libraries exhibit of historical photos of the Libraries on the Downtown campus.

International Association for Identification

This collection includes selected items digitized from the International Association for Identification, the world's oldest and largest criminal identification organization.

Isaac Asimov Collection

This online display features visuals and descriptions of some of the over 600 books, games, audio recordings, videos, and wall charts included in the West Virginia University Libraries’ Asimov Collection.

Jesse Stuart Digital Collection

This digital collection invites users to browse the book covers, illustrations, inscriptions, and signatures selected from the Maryan Dahmer Jesse Stuart Collection.

Mark Twain: Rare Book Digital Collection

This digital collection consists of over 1100 images of illustrations and some text from a selection of the Mark Twain Collection in the WVU Libraries' Rare Books Collection.

MediaSite Audio/Video Streaming

The University Libraries' MediaSite audio/video streaming facilities provide support for the delivery of live television broadcasts to WVU's Morgantown Campus.

PBS Documentary Collection

Streaming videos purchased with copyright clearance from commercial vendors can be accessed on our website.

Pi Lambda Phi Jewish Studies Lectureship

This series includes lectures beginning in 2007 that can be viewed in the Windows Media Player.

Printed Ephemera Collection

This database contains more than 7000 records representing more than 32000 ephemera items such as pamphlets, leaflets, brochures, clippings, and isolated serials.

Season's Greetings: Holiday Cards Collection

This online collection consists of almost 50 early 20th century holiday cards selected from the West Virginia and Regional History Center at the WVU Libraries.

Shakespeare Online Collection

This digital collection includes images and text from Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello scanned from a 1773 edition.

Storer College: A Digital Photographic Collection

This digital collection includes historical photographs from the archives of Storer College.

Theses and Dissertations

Search and browse theses and dissertations from WVU and other institutions.