University of Virginia Library

4. THE CATALOGUE

677. See pages 6 and following of Section I of this history.

678. See pages 16-18, Section II, of this history.

679. See page 29, Section II, of this history.

680. Wertenbaker retired in 1881. He was followed by Page, 1881-1882,
Winston, 1882-1886, and Baker, 1886-1891. For the cataloguing problem at
that time see pages 44 and 45 of section III of this history.

681. The third stage, the "involved attempt to achieve maximum utility
with minimum cost", may be said to have followed the publication in the
Library Quarterly of October 1941 (vol. II, no. 4, pp. 393-411) of Andrew
Delbridge Osborn's "The Crisis in Cataloging."

682. See page 44 of Section III of this history.

683. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 28 February 1929; Annual Library
Report for 1929, page 3. The report seems to be in error in giving
October 1929 instead of February 1929 as the date of the adoption of the
Library of Congress classification. There is a rather frivolous comparison
of the Dewey and Library of Congress classifications in "D.C. Versus
L.C." in Libraries, vol. 35, no. 1, January 1930, pp. 1-4.

684. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 1 May 1930. For the use of the
portion of the Humanities Fund which was allotted to the Library, see the
Supplement on funds which follows these notes.

685. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 15 October 1929.

686. Annual Library Reports, for 1931, p. 3; for 1931-1932, p. 4.

687. Annual Library Report for 1932-1933, p. 4. For the Hertz collection,
see page 63, Section IV, of this history.

688. See page 64, Section IV, of this history, and footnote 259.

689. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 25 October 1932, for Minor Hall.
Alumni News, vol. 22, no. 3, December 1933, p. 52 and Visitors' Minutes,
24 March 1933, for gift of Alderman books.

690. Annual Library Report for 1934-1935, p. 8; Visitors' Minutes, 7
November 1934.

691. Annual Library Report for 1934-1935, p. 8.

692. Annual Library Report for 1937-1938, p. 7.

693. Annual Library Report for 1937-1938, p. 5.

694. See note 693 and the volume of College and University Library Statistics
1919/20 to 1943/44 compiled at the Princeton University Library.

695. For data concerning Mrs. Bailey, Miss Carver, and the Misses Clark see
page of this section (VI) of this history.

696. See page 125 of this section (VI) of this history.

697. Osborn, Andrew Delbridge, "The Crisis in Cataloging", Library Quarterly,
vol. 11, no. 4, October 1941, pp. 393-411. See note 681. See also Board
of Aldermen Minutes for April, June, and November 1949.

698. See page 18 of Section II of this history.

699. As complete secrecy as was possible was maintained concerning that wartime
use of space at the University of Virginia. But on pages 47, 48 of
his annual report for 1944 the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Archibald MacLeish,
made grateful reference to it.

700. Faculty Library Committee Minutes, 11 October 1928. See also page 9
of the Annual Library Report for 1928.

701. Works, George Alan, College and University Library Problems, Chicago,
American Library Association, 1927. Extra copies of this, and later of
James Thayer Gerould's The College Library Building: Its Planning and
Equipment, New York, Scribner, 1932, were purchased for use by the members
of the Faculty Library Committee.

702. Alumni News, vol. 26, no. 7, April 1938, pp. 149-152; vol. 27, no. 2,
November 1938, pp. 29, 30. Those are references to the Barringer report.
For the McConnell survey see Alumni News, vol. 28, no. 6, March 1940,
pp. 102, 103.

703. See the alumni contributions of expendable funds during 1925-1950 as
listed in the supplementary notes on funds.

704. Alumni News, vol. 33, no. 1, October 1944, p. 9; Annual Library Report
for 1942-1943, p. 16.

705. Alumni News, vol. 27, no. 2, November 1938, p. 29. This was in appreciation
of Mrs. Graves's services at the close of twenty-five years. Her
actual retirement came at the end of the 1944-1945 session.

706. Annual Library Report for 1943-1944, pp. 22, 23.

707. See preceding note; also Alumni News, vol. 33, no. 1, October 1944,
pp. 9, 18.

708. Library of Congress Information Bulletins for 9-15 August and 27 September-3
October 1949 rank the University of Virginia notably high in contributions
to the Union Catalogue. Reports of those rankings appeared in
the Board of Aldermen Minutes for September and October 1949.

709. A standing Pamphlet Committee was in operation for the last fifteen
years or so of this period, 1925-1950. Statements of its conclusions
and of the procedures determined upon are filed in the Preparations Division
and in the general office of the Alderman Library. The most elaborate
statement was prepared by Mrs. Hinman in 1942 and is headed "Supplementary
Notes on Pamphlet Cataloguing."

710. The figure 40,893 is taken from the sheet entitled "Size of Collections,
30 June 1950." The statement "about 36,000 volumes" may be found on page
55 of the University Catalogue for the session of 1880-1881.