University of Virginia Library

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.

       

JOHN SHELTON PATTON	Librarian
MARY LOUISE DINWIDDIE	Assistant Librarian
LILIE ESTELLE DINWIDDIE	Assistant in Charge of Circulation
HENRY TROUT MANN	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
Biolgical Laboratory; the engineering, in the Mechanical Laboratory; the
geological, in the Lewis Brooks Museum of Natural History; the law,
in Minor Hall; 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. The collection contains more than eighty thousand
volumes, and includes 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., and from 7:30 to 10:30 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.

Books in the general library may be lent only to the following
persons: (1) Officers and students of the University; (2) persons whose
former official connection with the University entitles them to consideration;
and (3) other persons recommended by an officer of the University.
The last named must make a deposit of five dollars and must pay, for
each year or fraction thereof, a fee of one dollar. The deposit will be
returned on request, less any penalties that may have been incurred by
the detention or injury of books. 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. Two weeks is the maximum period for which books may be
lent, and the date on which the loan expires is stamped in the book.
The loan may be renewed unless another person entitled to the privileges
of the library has applied for the book in question.

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.

Books which are especially valuable or peculiarly liable to injury,
are not available for circulation.

The latest numbers of current periodicals are withheld from circulation.