University of Virginia Library

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.

[In the Rotunda.]

       

JOHN SHELTON PATTON	Librarian
MARY LOUISE DINWIDDIE	Assistant Librarian
LENA BARKSDALE	Assistant in the Library
ESTELLE DINWIDDIE	Assistant in the Library

The various libraries of the university are placed as follows: the
general library, the medical, the chemical, and the Isabel Mercein
Tunstall Library of Poetry, in the Rotunda; the astronomical, in
the Leander McCormick Observatory; the biological and botanical,
in the Biological Laboratory; the engineering, in the Mechanical
Laboratory; the geological, in the Lewis Brooks Museum of Natural
History; the law, in the Minor Law Building; the mathematical
and the Hertz classical, in Cabell Hall; and the physical, in the
Rouss Physical Laboratory.

The general library is for the use of the corps of instruction and
administration of the university and the students in all departments
of the institution. Students, in particular, are urged to give it
as much time as they can afford. The collection contains more than
70,000 volumes, including the standard books of history, literature,
and science, and is particularly rich in materials for the study of
social and economic achievements and tendencies. The reference
section is well supplied with encyclopedias and other sources of information.

The general library is open daily, Sunday excepted, from 9 a.
m. to 4 p. m.; the Law Library from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m., from 3 to
5 p. m., and from 7.30 to 10.30 p. m.; and the Medical Library from
9 a. m. to 4 p. m., and from 7.30 to 10 p. m.

Books in the general library may be lent only to the following classes
of persons: (1) Regularly matriculated students; (2) members of the faculty
and officers of the university; (3) persons whose former official connection
with the university entitles them to consideration; and (4) other
persons who deposit $5.00 and pay a fee of $1.00 a year, or shorter
time. The deposit will be returned on request, less penalties, if
any, for detention or injury of books. In this class, applicants for
the privilege of borrowing books must be recommended by a professor
or an officer; but no professor, officer, or student may borrow
books for the use of others.

No book may be taken from the library until it has been charged
at the desk. Usually books are lent for two weeks, but there are
exceptions, and the loan expires on the date stamped in the book.
It may be renewed unless another person entitled to the privileges
of the library has applied for it.

Books in the reference collection are not to be removed from
the library, but may be freely consulted. All bound magazines are
classed as reference books.

Books in current general use in connection with any course of
instruction may be temporarily placed on the reference shelves and
made subject to the above rule.

Reference works, and books of special value or peculiarly liable
to injury, are not available for circulation.

New periodicals are withheld from circulation until one month
after they are placed on the shelves.