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THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

                   
John Shelton Patton  Librarian 
Mary Louise Dinwiddie  Assistant Librarian 
Olive Dickinson Clark  In Charge of Circulation 
Lucy Trimble Clark  Assistant in Circulation 
Joseph Lee Vaughan  Assistant in Circulation (Evening
Ella Watson Johnson  Medical Librarian and Cataloguer 
Marjorie Dunham Carver  In Charge of Special Cataloguing 
Norma Lena Via  Assistant in Journal Section 
Catherine Lipop Graves  Librarian, Law Department Library (Minor Hall
Katharine B. Scott  Librarian, Heck Memorial Library of Education (Peabody Hall

The various libraries of the University are placed as follows: The general
library and the medical library, in the Rotunda; the chemical, in the
Chemical Building; the astronomical, in the Leander McCormick Observatory;
the bibliogical 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. The hours on Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m., and from
7:30 to 10:30 p. m.; Saturday, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.; Sunday, 2:30 to 4:30 p. m.
The law library is open from 9 a. m. to 1:30 p. m., 3 to 5, and 7:30 to 10
daily, Sunday excepted; the medical library, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m., and from
7:30 to 9:30 p. m., Saturday evening excepted; and the Heck Memorial Library
of Education, 9 a. m. to 12:30 p. m., from 1:45 to 4:30 p. m., and
7:30 to 9:30, Sunday evening excepted.

The Library is closed on Jefferson Day (April 13), Thanksgiving, Christmas
eve, Christmas day, and New Year's Day.

The general library in the Rotunda contains more than one hundred
thousand volumes, including standard works in history, art, literature, and
the sciences, and is rich in materials for the study of the causes and the
consequences of the World War, the negro problem in all its phases, and
generally of political, social, and economic tendencies and achievements.
The reference section is well supplied. In the general and departmental
libraries there is a total of approximately 140,000 volumes. The periodical
collection (in the northwest terrace room) receives 108 quarterlies, 214
monthlies, 48 weeklies, and 5 dailies. There are more than 750 files made
up of important periodicals, current and past.

Books in the general library may be lent to the following persons: (1)


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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 any of the courses of instruction; (3) the latest
number of current periodicals; (4) books of rare or special value.