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SIZE OF COLLECTIONS
  
  
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SIZE OF COLLECTIONS

In the University libraries combined there was on July 1, 1934, a total of
232,017 volumes. These were located as follows:

                 
General Library  131,138 volumes 
Department Libraries: 
Education  11,451 volumes 
Engineering  4,865 volumes 
Graduate  1,671 volumes 
Law  27,785 volumes 
Medicine  13,336 volumes 
School Libraries and Other Collections  41,771 volumes 
232,017 volumes 

These figures do not include unbound material. The various libraries were
receiving on July 1, 1934, a total of about 789 current periodicals; and the number
of periodicals represented by back files, often incomplete, was 2,282.