 | The University of Virginia record March 15, 1930 |  |
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, Ph.B., D.C.L., LL.D.
President of the University
JOHN CALVIN METCALF, M.A., Litt.D., LL.D., Chairman
Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Department of Graduate Studies
| WILLIAM MYNN THORNTON, B.A., LL.D. | Professor of Applied Mathematics |
| ARMISTEAD MASON DOBIE, M.A., LL.B., S.J.D. | Professor of Law |
| HARVEY ERNEST JORDAN, M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Histology and Embryology and Assistant Dean of the Department of Medicine |
| ROBERT HENNING WEBB, M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Greek |
| CARROLL MASON SPARROW, B.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Physics |
| ABRAHAM BERGLUND, B.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Commerce and Business Administration |
| FLOYD NELSON HOUSE, M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Sociology |
| HARRY CLEMONS, M.A., Secretary | Librarian |
STAFF
| Harry Clemons, M.A. | Librarian |
| Mary Louise Dinwiddie | Assistant Librarian |
| Marjorie Dunham Carver | Secretary; in Charge of Recataloguing |
| John Cook Wyllie, B.A. | Assistant Reference Librarian |
| Frances Elizabeth Harshbarger, M.A. | [1]
Manuscript Assistant, Virginia Collection |
| Virginia Cloud Jacobs | Assistant in Charge, General Reading Room |
| Margaret Mehring | Assistant, General Reading Room |
| Randolph Warner Church, B.S. | [1] Student Assistant, General Reading Room |
| Jack Preston Dalton, Jr. | [1] Student Assistant, General Reading Room |
| Thomas Edison Burnett | [1] Student Shelf Assistant, General Reading Room |
| Virginia Earhart | Periodical Room Assistant |
| George Viele Scott, Jr., B.A. | [1] Student Assistant, Periodical Room |
| George Welch Wyllie | [1] Student Assistant, Periodical Room |
| Frances Smith | Government Document Room Assistant |
| Ella Watson Johnson | Cataloguer |
| Jane Grigsby Farrar | Cataloguer; in Charge of Filing |
| Lucy Trimble Clark | Cataloguer |
| Olive Dickinson Clark | Cataloguer |
| Lucy Herr Smith | Cataloguer |
| Elizabeth Carver | Assistant |
| Elizabeth Lindsay Gordon | [1] Assistant for Library of Congress Catalogue |
| Mary Virginia Via | [1] Assistant for Library of Congress Catalogue |
| Eleanor Harrison, B.A. | Assistant for Recataloguing |
| Bessie Stuart Anderson | Assistant for Recataloguing |
| Dora Belle Mitchell | Assistant for Recataloguing |
| Blanche Maydell Wallace | Assistant |
| Frances Diggs | Stenographer |
| Anna Simpson Rudolph | Assistant for Binding and Exchanges |
| Catherine Lipop Graves | Law Librarian |
| Nellie Wingfield Smith | [1] Assistant to the Law Librarian |
| Loftus Clifford Dawson | [1] Student Assistant |
| Anne Ashhurst Gwathmey | Medical Librarian |
| Charles William Rodgers, Jr. | [1] Student Assistant |
| Henry Rolfe DuPuy | [1] Student Assistant |
| Frances Bruffey | Educational Librarian |
| David Barr Webb | [1] Student Assistant |
| Evelyn Sitwell | Librarian for Art and Architecture |
LOCATION
The General Library, the Periodical Room, the Government Document
Room, and the Virginia Room are located at the Rotunda.
The department libraries are located as follows:
The Law Library, on the second floor of Minor Hall.
The Medical Library, on the main floor at the northeast corner of the new
Medical Building.
The Heck Memorial Library of Education, on the second floor of Peabody
Hall.
The Bruce Library, in the Graduate House.
The Engineering Library, in the Mechanical Laboratory.
The school 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.
Chemistry, in Cobb Hall.
Classics (Hertz Library), in Cabell Hall.
Geology, in the Lewis Brooks Museum.
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, in the Social Science Building.
Mathematics, in Cabell Hall.
Music, in the Music Room.
Physics, in the Rouss Physical Laboratory.
Rural Social Economics, in the Social Science Building.
HOURS OF OPENING
The libraries at the Rotunda and the Medical Library are 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 Law Library (Minor Hall) is open on week days from 9:00 A. M. to
5:00 P. M., and from 7:00 to 10:00 P. M.
The Heck Memorial Library of Education (Peabody Hall) is open on week
days except Saturday from 9:00 A. M. to 12:30 P. M., from 1:45 to 4:30
P. M., and from 7:30 to 10:00 P. M. It is open on Saturdays from 9:00 A. M.
to 1:00 P. M.
The Art and Architecture Library (Fayerweather Hall) is open on week
days except Saturday from 10:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., and from 2:30 to
5:30 P. M. It is open on Saturdays from 9:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M.
LOAN OF BOOKS
Books may be borrowed from the General Library by (1) members of the
University; (2) former officers and professors who are residing at the University;
and (3) card-holders. Cards are issued to residents of Charlottesville
and vicinity and to visitors to the University who are guaranteed in writing by
a member of the faculty who is of professorial rank and who is not a member
of the library staff.
Books borrowed by members of the faculty of professorial rank or by instructors
who are not doing graduate work are subject to return on request
by the librarians; all such loans should be returned before the first of June
of each year, and records previous to that date should be cleared before further
borrowing of books. All other loans are for a period of two weeks or less,
and are subject to fines for detention or injury of books.
SIZE OF COLLECTIONS
In the University libraries combined there was on July 1, 1929, a total
of 163,162 volumes. These were located as follows:
| Collections at the Rotunda | 90,389 volumes |
| Law Library | 23,553 volumes |
| Medical Library | 6,846 volumes |
| Heck Memorial Library of Education | 6,454 volumes |
| School libraries and other collections | 35,920 volumes |
| 163,162 volumes |
This total does not include unbound material. The Periodical Room in
the General Library, the Medical Library, the Heck Memorial Library of
Education, and the school libraries together receive 524 current periodicals;
and the Law Library receives 81 periodicals. In the Periodical Room there
are files of over 800 periodicals.
| The University of Virginia record March 15, 1930 | |