University of Virginia Library

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.

       

John Shelton Patton	Librarian
Mary Louise Dinwiddie	Assistant Librarian
Lilie Estelle Dinwiddie	In Charge of Circulation
Catherine Rebecca Lipop	Law Librarian

The various libraries of the University are placed as follows: The
general library, the medical, the chemical, and the Isabel Mercein 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 Minor Hall;
the mathematical and the Hertz classical, in Cabell Hall; and the physical,
in the Rouss Physical Laboratory.

The general, the medical and the chemical libraries are open daily.
Sunday excepted, from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.; the Law Library from 9 a. m.
to 2 p. m., from 3 to 5 p. m., and from 7 to 10 p. m.

The general library contains more than ninety thousand volumes, including
the standard works in history, literature, and science, and is particularly
rich in materials for the study of the causes, the conduct, and the
immediate and future results of the world war, and generally of social and
economic achievements and tendencies. The reference section is well
supplied with encyclopedias and other sources of information. A liberal
policy governs the purchase of important new books.

Books in the general library may be lent only to the following persons:
(1) officers and students of the University; (2) former officers of
the University; (3) persons recommended by an officer of the University.
The last named must make a deposit of five dollars and must pay, for each
year or fraction thereof, a fee of one dollar. The deposit will be returned
on request, less any penalties that may have been incurred by detention
or injury of books. No professor, officer or student may borrow books
for the use of others.

No book may be taken from the library until it has been charged at
the desk. Two weeks is the maximum period for which books may be
lent, and the date on which the loan expires is stamped in the book. The
loan may be renewed unless another person entitled to the privileges of
the library has applied for the book.

The following classes of books are not available for circulation: (1)
works of reference; (2) books temporarily reserved for the use of students
in various courses of instruction; (3) bound magazines; (4) the
latest numbers of current periodicals; (5) books of unique or especial
value.