e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia Online

Stewart Plein is the Curator of Rare Books and Printed Resources in the West Virginia & Regional History Center, the special collections unit of West Virginia University. She is also the Director for the West Virginia National Digital Newspaper Project (NDNP) National Endowment for the Humanities grant in partnership with the Library of Congress. She received her master's of Library Science (MLS) from the University of South Carolina, her bachelor’s degree from Emory & Henry College, and certifications in Rare Book Librarianship from the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School, and The History of the Book in the Early Modern Period: 1450 to 1800, from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.