UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Staff
| Harry Clemons, M.A. |
Librarian |
| Mary Louise Dinwiddie |
Assistant Librarian |
| Olive Dickinson Clark |
In Charge of Circulation Division |
| Virginia Cloud Jacobs |
Assistant in Circulation Division |
| Hubert Douglas Bennett |
Assistant in Circulation Division |
| Horace Greeley Bass, B.A. |
Assistant in Circulation Division |
| William Robert Martin |
Assistant in Circulation Division |
| Ella Watson Johnson |
In Charge of Medical Library, Cataloguer |
| Achilles Lacy Tynes, Jr., B.S. |
Assistant in Medical Library |
| Charles William Rodgers, Jr. |
Assistant in Medical Library |
| Norma Lena Via |
Assistant in Journal Section |
| Jamie Miller Wotton |
Assistant in Government Documents Section |
| Majorie Dunham Carver |
In Charge of Special Cataloguing |
| Jane Grigsby Farrar |
Cataloguer, In Charge of Filing |
| Lucy Trimble Clark |
Assistant in Preparations Division |
| Aletta Wood |
Assistant in Preparations Division |
| Louise Leachman Via |
Assistant in Acquisitions Division |
| Catherine Lipop Graves |
Librarian, Law Library |
| Nellie Wingfield Smith |
Assistant to the Librarian, Law Library |
| Bentley Hite, B.A. |
Night Librarian, Law Library |
| Frances Bruffey |
Librarian, Heck Memorial Library |
Location
The General Library, the Periodical Room, the Government Documents
Section, and the Medical Library are located at the Rotunda.
The Law Library is located on the second floor of Minor Hall.
The Heck Memorial Library of Education is located on the second
floor of Peabody Hall.
The departmental libraries and other collections are located as follows:
Art and architecture, in Fayerweather Hall.
Astronomy, in the Leander McCormick Observatory.
Biology and botany, in the Biological Laboratory.
Bruce Library, in the Graduate House.
Chemistry, in Cobb Hall.
Classics (Hertz Library), in Cabell Hall.
Engineering, in the Mechanical Laboratory.
Geology, in the Lewis Brooks Museum.
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Collection, in the Institute for
Research in the Social Sciences.
Mathematics, in Cabell Hall.
Music, in the Music Room.
Physics, in the Rouss Physical Laboratory.
Rural economics, in the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences.
Hours of Opening
The General Library (Rotunda) is open on week days from 9:00 a. m.
to 10:30 p. m., and on Sundays from 2:30 to 5:30 p. m.
The Periodical Room and the Government Documents Section (Rotunda)
are open on week days from 9:00 a. m. to 4:00 p. m.
The Medical Library (Rotunda) is open on week days from 9:00 a. m.
to 6:00 p. m., and on week days excepting Saturday from 7:30 to 10:30
p. m.
The Law Library (Minor Hall) is open daily, with Librarians in attendance
on week days from 9:30 a. m. to 1:30 p. m., from 3:30 to 5:00 p.
m., and from 7:30 to 10:00 p. m.
The Heck Memorial Library of Education (Peabody Hall) is open on
week days from 9:00 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. and from 1:45 to 4:30 p. m.; it is
open on week days excepting Saturday from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
Loan of Books
Books may be borrowed from the General Library by the following:
(1) officers, professors, and students of the University; (2) former officers
of the University; and (3) card-holders. The card-holders make a deposit
of five dollars and pay for each year or fraction thereof a fee of one dollar.
The deposit is returned on request, less any penalties for detention or
injury of books. Officers, professors, or students may not borrow books
for the use of others.
The following classes of books are, however, not available for circulation
(1) works of reference, including dictionaries; (2) books temporarily
reserved for the use of students in any of the courses of instruction;
(3) the latest numbers of current periodicals; (4) books of rare or special
value.
Size of Collections
In the University collections combined there were in December 1927
a total of 151,333 volumes. These were located as follows:
| Collections at the Rotunda |
88,881 volumes |
| Law Library |
22,725 volumes |
| Heck Memorial Library of Education |
5,557 volumes |
| Departmental libraries and other collections |
34,170 volumes |
|
151,333 volumes |
This total does not include unbound material. The Periodical Room in the
General Library, the Heck Memorial Library, and the departmental libraries
together receive 461 current periodicals; and the Law Library receives
seventy-six current periodicals. In the periodical room there are files of
over 750 periodicals.
Gifts
The University libraries have been enriched by generous donations
from alumni and other friends of the University. The list of donors is a
long and distinguished one; and to make any selection from it is liable to
result in important and unintentional omissions. Among the names,
however, which are associated with gifts to the University libraries are the
following: Grace Arents, P. B. Barringer, Charles F. Bevan, William K.
Bixby. W. D. Booker, J. Douglas Bruce, Alfred H. Boyd, William Andrews
Clark, Jr., A. B. Cooke, Alfred W. Erickson, Bennett W. Green, Mrs. J.
Taylor Gwathmey, James A. Harrison, William Harry Heck, Martin
Hertz, Frederick W. H. Holliday, George Frederick Holmes, Arthur Curtiss
James, Edward W. James, Gaetano Lanza, Stephen D. Lee, W. Gordon
McCabe, James McKeldin, Hazlitt McKim, Wilbur P. Morgan, Mrs.
Andrew Murphy, Robert L. Preston, Thomas R. Price, Clara Tuttle Probasco,
Cordelia H. B. Rogers, Charles N. Shields, Jr., Barnard Shipp, Mary
W. Stevenson, Isabel Mercein Tunstall, W. D. Weaver, Mrs. George Wertenbaker,
and W. N. Whitney.
