University of Virginia Library

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES.

             

John Shelton Patton	Librarian
Mary Louise Dinwiddie	Assistant Librarian
Olive Dickinson Clark	In Charge of Circulation
Lucy Trimble Clark	Assistant in Circulation
Charles Louis Knight	Assistant (evening)
Ella Watson Johnson	Medical Librarian and Cataloguer
Catherine Rebecca Lipop	Law Librarian

The various libraries of the University are placed as follows: The general
library, the medical, and the Isabel Mercein Tunstall Library of Poetry,
in the Rotunda; the chemical, in the Chemical Building; 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; the physical,
in the Rouss Physical Laboratory; the Heck Memorial Library of Education,
in Peabody Hall.

The General Library is open daily, Sunday excepted, from 9 a. m. to 4
p. m., from 7:30 p. m. to 10:30 p. m., Saturday excepted, also from 2 p. m. to
5 p. m. Sundays; the Law Library from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m., and from 7 to 10
p. m.; the Medical Library from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. daily, and from 7:30 to 9:30
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

The general library contains more than ninety thousand volumes, including
the standard works in history, art, literature, and science, and is particularly
rich in materials for the study of the causes, the conduct, and the
consequences of the world war, and generally of political, social, and economic
achievements and tendencies. The reference section is well supplied
with journals, encyclopedias, etc.

Books in the general library may be lent to the following persons: (1)
officers and students of the University; (2) former officers of the University;
and (3) card-holders. 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 is returned on request, less any penalties for detention or injury of
books. No professor, officer or student may borrow books for the use of
others.

The following classes of books are not available for circulation: (1)
works of reference, including dictionaries; (2) books temporarily reserved
for the use of students in various courses of instruction; (3) the latest number
of current periodicals; (4) books of rare or special value.