University of Virginia Library

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.

[In the Rotunda.]

       

JOHN SHELTON PATTON	Librarian
ANNA SEELEY TUTTLE, B. A.	Assistant Librarian
ELLA WATSON JOHNSON	Assistant
BENJAMIN EARL WASHBURN	Assistant

The various libraries of the university are placed as follows: the
general library, the chemical, the Hertz classical, the medical, and the
Isabel Mereein Tunstall Library of Poetry, in the Rotunda; the astronomical,
in the Leander McCormick Observatory; the biological and botanical,
in the Biological Laboratory; the engineering, in the Mechanical Laboratory;
the geological, in the Lewis Brooks Museum of Natural History;
the law, in the new Law Building; the mathematical, in Cabell Hall; and
the physical, in the Rouss Physical Laboratory.

The general library is for the use of the corps of instruction and administration
of the university and the students in all departments of the
institution. The students, in particular, are urged to give it as much
time as they can afford. The collection contains about 70,000 volumes,
including the standard books of history, literature, and science, and is
particularly rich in materials for the study of social and economic achievements
and tendencies. The reference section is well supplied with encyclopedias
and other sources of information.

The general library is open daily, Sunday excepted, from 9 a. m. to
4 p. m.

Books may be lent only to the following classes of persons: (1)
Regularly matriculated students; (2) members of the faculty and officers
of the university; (3) persons whose former official connection with the
university entitles them to consideration, and (4) other persons who
deposit $5.00 and pay a fee of $1.00 a year, or shorter time. The deposit
will be returned on request, less penalties, if any, for detention or injury
of books. In this class, applicants for the privilege of borrowing books
must be recommended by a professor or an officer; but no professor or
officer can borrow books for the use of others.

No book may be taken from the library until it has been charged at
the desk. Usually books are lent for two weeks, but there are exceptions,
and the loan expires on the date stamped in the book. It may be renewed
unless another person entitled to the privileges of the library has applied
for it.

Books of the reference collection are not to be removed from the
library, but may be freely consulted. All bound magazines are classed as
reference books.

Books in current general use in connection with any course of instruction
will be temporarily placed on the reference shelves and made
subject to the above rule.

Reference works, and books of special value or peculiarly liable to
injury, are not available for circulation.

New periodicals are withheld from circulation until one month after
they are placed on the shelves.