University of Virginia Library

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES.

             

John Shelton Patton	Librarian
Mary Louise Dinwiddie	Assistant Librarian
Ella Katherine Fife	In Charge of Circulation
Olive Dickinson Clark	Assistant in Circulation
David Rice Groome	Assistant (evening)
Ella Watson Johnson	Medical Librarian and Cataloguer
Catherine Rebecca Lipop	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, art, literature, and science, and is particularly
rich in materials for the study of the causes, the conduct, and the consequences
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 is 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 number of
current periodicals; (4) books of rare or special value.