Welcome to the Downtown Campus Library

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Welcome to the Downtown Campus Library

• Your Link to Global Information the Scholarly
  Community of the Future

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On Every Floor You Will Find

• Copy machines digital senders
• Restrooms near back corner stairs
• Public access computers print stations
• Personal laptop connections
• Comfortable reading study areas

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Lower Level

• Public telephones
• Media Services
• Videos, equipment laptop check-out
• Multimedia workstations group viewing rooms
• Assistive Computing Technology Center
• Electronic Classroom
• Map Room
• US WV government documents

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First Floor

• Access Services
• Book reserve check out return
• Borrower services
• Reference Government Information Services
• Copy Services
• Mountie Bounty value-add station
• Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery

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First Floor Donor Areas

• Alumni Lobby
• Made possible through a generous gift from the
  West Virginia University Alumni Association
• Government Documents Center
• Benefited from a generous gift from Kenneth N.
  Miller

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Second Floor

• Periodicals Desk
• Journal check out return
• Journals Newspapers
• Current issues
• Bound volumes
• Microforms
• Atrium

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Second Floor - Donor Areas

• Bennett Periodicals Area
• Made possible through a generous gift from Edna
  Bennett Pierce in memory of C. Eugene Bennett
• Ladwig Newspaper Reading Area
• Made possible through a generous gift from Dr.
  Cornelia M. Ladwig

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Fourth Floor

• Book collections
• Call numbers A-N
• 6 group study rooms

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Fourth Floor Donor Area

• Clyde and Mary Jane English Study Room
• Made possible through a generous gift from Clyde
  and Mary Jane English

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Sixth Floor

• Book collections
• Call numbers P-Z
• Appalachian Collection
• Waters/Africana Collection
• ORLA Collection
• New Books
• Leisure Reading Collection
• 6 group study rooms

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Sixth Floor Donor Areas

• Davis Reading Room
• Made possible through a generous gift from Gladys
  Gwendolyn Davis in memory of Estelle Conaway
  Davis and Vivian Davis Michael
• Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Robbins Study Room
• Made possible through a generous gift from Mr.
  and Mrs. Stuart Robbins
• Joseph and Margaret Gluck Study Room
• Made possible through a generous gift from
  Dorothy J. Dotson
• Dr. Gerald E. Lang Study Room
• Made possible through a generous gift from
  Dorothy J. Dotson

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New Services

• Digital senders
• Laptop check-out
• Multi-media workstations
• BookExpress
• E-Journals
• Group study rooms
• Group viewing rooms

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Digital Sender - a New Option

• Send an article or color image to your e-mail
  address
• Located on all floors
• Free of charge!
• Inquire at any service desk

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Check Out a Laptop

• Available for use in the building
• Inquire at the Media Services Desk
• Connect to the Libraries network
• Coming soon - campus-wide wireless network
  connectivity

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Multi-Media Workstations

• Located on the Lower Level
• Stations are equipped with
• HDTV ready monitor/TV
• Headphones
• High quality sound card
• DVD/CD player
• IP/TV viewer
• Standard Internet plug-ins players

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Need a Book from Another WVU Campus in
Morgantown?

• BookExpress
• For faculty, staff graduate students
• Place requests through MountainLynx
• Books delivered to all campus libraries

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E-Journals

• 10,000 electronic journals
• Available on or off campus to WVU students
  faculty
• Inquire at the Reference Desk or Periodicals Desk

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Group Study Rooms

• For groups of 2-10
• Inquire at the Access Services Desk
• Priority will be given to WVU students faculty

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Small Group Viewing Rooms

• Equipped with
• 42 plasma HDTV ready flat panel monitor
• High quality sound system
• Wireless keyboard mouse
• VCR/DVD playback
• Schedule rooms request other playback devices
  at the Media Services Desk

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In Development - Coming Soon!

• Portable e-conferencing equipment
• Live satellite TV and video-on-demand
• Campus-wide wireless connectivity
• Wise Library renovation

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Need to set up an e-conference?

• WVU faculty, staff, students may reserve group
  study rooms request portable e-conferencing
  equipment
• Conference with up to 21 remote users or groups
  over the Internet

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Live TV and Video-on-Demand

• Video-on-demand
• View course related and/or archived multi-media
  files
• Use the IP/TV multi-media client or standard
  Internet plug-ins
• View selected live TV programs
• Satellite cable connectivity at all public
  workstations
• Cable quality broadcasts multicasts may be
  scheduled for viewing and/or recording

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Wise Library Renovation

• Will be completed in 2003
• Will house
• Appalachian Collection
• American Literature Collection
• West Virginia and Regional History Collection

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Wise Library Donor Areas

• Milano Reading Room
• Made possible through a generous gift from James
  V. and Ann Pozega Milano, who met in the room in
  the 1940s
• James A. Robinson Reading Room
• Made possible through a generous gift from the
  WVU Foundation in honor of its former director,
  James A. Robinson

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Wise Library Donor Areas

• The James Hornor Davis Family Galleries
• Made possible through a generous gift from the
  Guiher and Davis Families
• The Stealey Manuscripts Reading Room
• Made possible through a generous gift from
  Patricia T. and John E. Stealey III

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The Libraries wish to express appreciation to the
following donors

• Alumni Lobby - gift of the WVU Alumni Association
• Government Documents Center gift of Kenneth N.
  Miller (First Floor)
• Bennett Periodicals Area - gift of Edna Bennett
  Pierce in memory of C. Eugene Bennett (Second
  Floor)
• Ladwig Newspaper Reading Area - gift of Dr.
  Cornelia M. Ladwig (Second Floor)
• Clyde and Mary Jane English Study Room -gift of
  Clyde and Mary Jane English (Fourth Floor)

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The Libraries wish to express appreciation to the
following donors

• Davis Reading Room - gift of Gladys Gwendolyn
  Davis in memory of Estelle Conaway Davis and
  Vivian Davis Michael (Sixth Floor)
• Joseph and Margaret Gluck Study Room - gift of
  Dorothy J. Dotson (Sixth Floor)
• Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Robbins Study Room - gift of
  Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Robbins (Sixth Floor)
• Dr. Gerald E. Lang Study Room - gift of Dorothy
  J. Dotson (Sixth Floor)

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The Libraries wish to express appreciation to the
following donors

• Milano Reading Room gift of James V. and Ann
  Pozega Milano (Wise Library)
• James A. Robinson Reading Room gift of WVU
  Foundation in honor of its former director, James
  A. Robinson (Wise Library)
• James Horner Davis Family Galleries - gift of the
  Guiher and Davis Families (Wise Library)
• Stealey Manuscripts Reading Room gift of
  Patricia T. and John E. Stealey III (Wise
  Library)

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Additional Naming Opportunities

• Available for the Downtown Campus Library
  renovated Wise Library
• Contact the Dean of Libraries for further
  information