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The first of four volumes was stolen by Gates in a raid by General David Hunter and his army of West Virginia. Illinois handball coach Mike Dau, a descendant of Gates, returned the book. A potential $52,858 fine was waived. [45] An Elementary Treatise on Electricity: James Clerk Maxwell: New Bedford Free Public Library 14 Feb 1904 or 14 Feb ...
The West Virginia and Regional History Center, the world's largest collection of West Virginia-related research material, is in the Wise Library on the Downtown Campus.. The collection includes over 4.5 million manuscript documents, 30,000 books, 15,000 pamphlets, 1,200 newspapers, 100,000 photographs and prints, 5,000 maps, and 25,000 microfilms, oral histories, films and folk music recordings
The Booth Library's Special Collection & Archives collects and preserves materials form the Davis and Elkins founding families, college materials and publications, facility publications, the Jim and Ola Cornstock collection, which includes the Pearl S. Buck Collection, and books on the history of Elkins, Randolph County, and West Virginia.
After being discovered in West Virginia, a 141-yr-old book has been returned to the New Bedford Free Public Library.
Online Books Page List of over 2,000,000 books (as of April 2015) in English and their urls where any and all may be obtained legitimately for free. Internet Public Library Another list of internet books, not just English, all free. Online Books Page list of archives A list of other entire book archives, such as:
Harold M. Forbes (1981), "The Press and Printing" (PDF), West Virginia History: A Bibliography and Guide to Research, West Virginia University Press; Harold M. Forbes (1989). West Virginia Newspapers, 1790-1990: A Union List. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library. OCLC 20336545. Betty L. Powell Hart (1991).
An act of the West Virginia Legislature declared the collection an official depository for state government records in 1934. [4] Eventually, with the addition of Monongalia and Ohio County records, as well as numerous city records from throughout West Virginia, the Center began to grow rapidly.
The first libraries in West Virginia were subscription-based libraries in which members would pay for the privilege of borrowing books. [1] When West Virginia was still a part of the state of Virginia, first libraries included Buffalo Creek Farmer's Library of present-day Monongalia County, Wheeling, and Morgantown and were all established around 1813.