University of Virginia Library

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES.

               

John Shelton Patton	Librarian
Mary Louise Dinwiddie	Assistant Librarian
Bertie Wood Herndon	In Charge of Circulation
Cordella Watts	Assistant in Circulation
Isaac J. Quesenberry	Assistant (evening)
Ella Watson Johnson	Medical Librarian and Cataloguer
Catherine Rebecca Lipop	Law Librarian
John H. Bell	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; the physical, in the Rouss
Physical Laboratory; the Heck Memorial Library of Education, in Peabody
Hall.

The General Library is 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 Medical Library
from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily, except Saturday when it is open from 9 a. m. to
4 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 journals, 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;
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 special value.