Subject Guide to Resources: West Virginia
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Suggested Search Terms / Call Numbers Range
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West Virginia
Subdivisions: subdivide geographically or by specialty (examples)
West Virginia - Authors
West Virginia Geneology
Public Schools -- West Virginia.
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West Virginia - History W 975.4
West Virginia Geneology W 929
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| E-Books (GSC Access Only) [Available in netLibrary ]
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| Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of
Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930 (eBook) by Barney, Sandra. |
| Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black
Appalachian Woman (eBook) Ohio University Press Series in Ethnicity and Gender
in Appalachia by Garrison, Memphis Tennessee. |
| Virginia Jobbank (eBook) Job Bank Series; 2006 Ed. (includes West
Virginia) |
1880 census of West Virginia: comp. alphabetically by counties
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Reference (a few examples of available titles)
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Encyclopedia of Appalachia
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WR 974 E5637 2006
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| Harris directory of West Virginia businesses |
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650.058 H313 2006
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| West Virginia atlas & gazetteer |
WR 912.754 D521 1997
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West Virginia blue book
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WR 328 W522
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West Virginia heritage encyclopedia
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WR 975.4 W522 1976
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Print (a few examples of available titles)
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Afflicting the comfortable: journalism and politics in West Virginia / Thomas
F. Stafford
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W 975.4 S779a 2005
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John Denver's Take me home, country roads / words and music adapted and
illustrated by Christopher Canyon.
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WJ 782.421 C235j 2005
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Kelly's Creek chronicles: The illustrated diary of James Alexander Jones, a
West Virginia Coalminer: kept during the period 1870 to 1939 / by William
Roosevelt Hudnall.
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W 975.437 H933 2005
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Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the remarkable story of a black Appalachian woman /
ed. by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen.
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W 975.449 G242 2001
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Music in the air somewhere: the shifting borders of West Virginia's fiddle and
song traditions / Erynn Marshall.
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W 781.62 M367m 2006
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| Parkersburg in vintage postcards / Christy and Jeff Little.
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W 975.4 L778p 2005
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Robert C. Byrd: child of the Appalachian coalfields by Robert C. Byrd.
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W 328.73 B995r 2005
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West Virginia criminal and traffic law manual: 2005 edition
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LAW 345.2 W521 2005
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| Databases (GSC Access Only) |
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Academic Search Elite
Academic Search Elite (via EBSCOhost) Full text
for nearly 2,050 scholarly journals, including over 1,500 peer-reviewed titles
covering virtually every area of academic study with back files as far back as
1985. |
Alt HealthWatch (via EBSCOhost)
Full text for more than 140
complementary and alternative medicine publications (many peer-reviewed).
Coverage of subject areas go back as far as 1990.
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Access Science
Full text articles from the Encyclopedia of Science
& Technology plus full text biographical information, news articles, and
science dictionary.
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Biography Resource Center (via Gale)
Full text biographical profiles on
people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and
subject areas. Full text magazine and newspaper articles included.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia articles plus a dictionary, a
thesaurus, maps, and an Internet guide.
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Newspaper Source (via EBSCOhost)
Indexes the Charleston Gazette and other
newspapers that cover West Virginia news.
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TOPICsearch (via EBSCOhost)
This current events database explores
social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular
topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over
92,700 articles from over 2,500 diverse sources including international and
regional newspapers, EBSCO's periodicals collection, biographies, public
opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, government information and EBSCO's
Current Issues database.
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Wilson’s Full Text Select (via WilsonWeb)
Wilson's full text databases -
includes Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, Social
Sciences, Wilson Business, and others. Coverage begins in 1994.
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| Web Sites |
Famous
West Virginians Page
(This page lists famous West Virginians --
people who were born in or lived in West Virginia)
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Literary
map of West Virginia
(From a Place Called Solid - West Virginia
and Its Writers)
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MOUNTAINLIT
(A site for the collection and dissemination of information about past and
present West Virginia authors and their writing. It is a work-in-progress
designed for teachers, scholars, librarians, students, and readers.)
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West
Virginia Code
(Updated with bills passed through the 2005 4th
Extraordinary Session)
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West
Virginia Genealogy
(Links to all West Virginia Counties showing
the location of web sites and contact people)
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West Virginia
Government
(Localize your search for information on jobs,
education, government, vacations, and recreation. Click on the region that
interests you and you will be directly linked to city and county resources.
"Find it in West Virginia" has been developed to make your portal experience
fast and convenient.)
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West
Virginia Legislature
(Designed to strengthen your connection to
West Virginia’s legislators and the laws that govern this state, this site
provides you with access to various resources, including contact information,
legislation and educational materials.) |
West
Virginia News Media Guide
(West Virginia's portal to news media
organizations statewide.) |
West
Virginia Press Association
(A listing of West Virginia Online
Daily & weekly Newspapers) |
West
Virginia State Parks & Forests
Forests (The official site
of wild and wonderful WV State Parks)
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West
Virginia Web Sites
(This service, courtesy of Marshall
University, lists Web Sites (servers and home pages) for organizations located
within the state of West Virginia. |
