University of Virginia Library

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.

               

John Shelton Patton	Librarian
Mary Louise Dinwiddie	Assistant Librarian
Lilie Estelle Dinwiddie	In Charge of Circulation
Arthur Merritt Jarman	Assistant (evening)
Virginia Esther Huntley	Cataloguer
Ella Watson Johnson	Medical Librarian
Catherine Rebecca Lipop	Law Librarian
Roscoe Bradley Gaither, B.A.	Assistant Law Librarian

The various libraries of the University are placed as follows: The
general library, the medical, and the Isabel Mercein Tunstall Library of
Poetry, in the Rotunda; the chemical, in the Chemical Building; 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 p. m. to 9:30 p.
m., Saturday excepted; 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 the causes, the conduct, and the
results of the world war, and generally of political, social and economic
achievements and tendencies. The reference section is well supplied with
encyclopedias and other sources of information. A liberal policy governs
the purchase of important new books.

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; and (3) card-holders. 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.