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THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES.

               
John Shelton Patton  Librarian 
Mary Louise Dinwiddie  Assistant Librarian 
Jane Grigsby Farrar  In Charge of Circulation 
Ella Katherine Fife  Assistant in Circulation 
Isaac J. Quesenberry  Assistant (evening) 
Ella Watson Johnson  Medical Librarian and Cataloguer 
Catherine Rebecca Lipop  Law Librarian 
Harter F. Wright  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., also 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 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. daily.

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, etc.

Books in the general library may be lent 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 for detention or injury
of books. No professor, officer or student may borrow books for the use
of others.

The following classes of books are not available for circulation: (1)
works of reference, including dictionaries; (2) books temporarily reserved
for the use of students in various courses of instruction; (3) the latest numbers
of current periodicals; (4) books of rare or special value.