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SIZE OF COLLECTIONS

In the University libraries combined there was on January 1, 1932, a total
of 192,383 volumes. These were located as follows:

               
Collections at the Rotunda  107,785 volumes 
Law Library  25,313 volumes 
Medical Library  10,199 volumes 
Heck Memorial Library of Education  7,875 volumes 
Bruce Library, Graduate School  1,282 volumes 
Engineering Library  4,271 volumes 
School libraries and other collections  35,658 volumes 
192,383 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 1,145 current periodicals;
and the Law Library receives 85 periodicals. There are back files, somewhat
incomplete, of about 1,200 periodicals.