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The Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program that delivered books to remote regions in the Appalachian Mountains between 1935 and 1943. Women were very involved in the project that eventually had 30 different libraries serving 100,000 people.
CASS included the Institute for Appalachians Affairs, the B. Carroll Reece Museum and the Archives of Appalachia. The archives acquired additional space when the medical library moved out of Sherrod Library. The additional space allowed for a conference room, map and over-sized material room, as well as additional storage space.
Appalachia (locally / ˌ æ p ə ˈ l æ tʃ ə /, also /-l eɪ tʃ ə,-l eɪ ʃ ə / [4]) is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.
In 1936 eastern Kentucky, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter works for the New Deal–funded Pack Horse Library Project, delivering reading material to the remote hill people of the Appalachian Mountains. Cussy Mary, sometimes known as Bluet, lives with her coal-miner and labor-organizing father, and feels her work as a librarian honors her long ...
The library was built in 1909 and opened to the public in 1910. Miss Sally Gravatt served as the first librarian. In 1969, Central Rappahannock Regional Library system was formed. Lafayette school building was donated to the library system. In 1970, the Wallace Library books collection was merged with 29,000 books purchased by the state of ...
Appalachian studies is the area studies field concerned with the Appalachian region of the United States. The Old Customs House in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States; the building is now home to the Knox County Library's McClung Collection
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
Welcome to WikiProject Appalachia!This project was founded by BrineStans on March 4, 2009 to expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of the region of Appalachia.. All users are welcome and can sign their name in the members section.