University of Virginia Library

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.

           

John Shelton Patton	Librarian
Mary Louise Dinwiddie	Assistant Librarian
Lilie Estelle Dinwiddie	In Charge of Circulation
Virginia Esther Huntley	Cataloguer
Catherine Rebecca Lipop	Law Librarian
Flora Stuart	In Charge of Circulation, Medical 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 Minor Hall; the mathematical and the Hertz
classical, in Cabell Hall; and the physical, in the Rouss Physical Laboratory.

The general, the medical and the chemical libraries are open daily, Sunday
excepted, from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m., and from 7.30 to 10.30 p. m.[1] ; the Law
Library from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m., from 3 to 5 p. m., and from 7 to 10 p. m.

The general library contains more than ninety thousand volumes, including
the standard works in 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.

Books in the general library may be lent only to the following persons:
(1) officers and students of the University; (2) former officers of the University;
(3) 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 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.

The following classes of books are not available for circulation: (1) works
of reference; (2) books temporarily reserved for the use of students in various
courses of instruction; (3) bound magazines; (4) the latest numbers of current
periodicals; (5) books of unique or especial value.