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SIZE OF COLLECTIONS

In the University libraries combined there was on January 1, 1933, a total
of 207,582 volumes. These were located as follows:

                 
General Library  115,218 volumes 
Department Libraries: 
Education  9,302 volumes 
Engineering  4,533 volumes 
Graduate  1,391 volumes 
Law  26,880 volumes 
Medicine  12,075 volumes 
School Libraries and Other Collections  38,183 volumes 
207,582 volumes 

These figures do not include unbound material. The various libraries receive
a total of 976 current periodicals; and the back files, somewhat incomplete, number
about 1,200 titles.