 | The University of Virginia record March 15, 1929 |  |
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, Ph.B., D.C.L., LL.D.
President of the University
JOHN CALVIN METCALF, M.A., Litt.D., LL.D., Chairman
Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Department of Graduate Studies
| WILLIAM MYNN THORNTON, B.A., LL.D. | Professor of Applied Mathematics |
| ARMISTEAD MASON DOBIE, M.A., LL.B., S.J.D. | Professor of Law |
| HARVEY ERNEST JORDAN, M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Histology and Embryology and Assistant Dean of the Department of Medicine |
| CARROLL MASON SPARROW, Ph.D. | Professor of Physics |
| DUMAS MALONE, M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of History |
| FLOYD NELSON HOUSE, M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Sociology |
| ABRAHAM BERGLUND, Ph.D. | Professor of Commerce and Business Administration |
| HARRY CLEMONS, M.A., Secretary | Librarian |
STAFF
| Harry Clemons, M.A. | Librarian |
| Mary Louise Dinwiddie | Assistant Librarian |
| Marjorie Dunham Carver | Secretary; also Cataloguer |
| Wesley Hammond Greene, B.A. | Manuscript Assistant, Virginia Room |
| Virginia Cloud Jacobs | Assistant in Charge |
| Jamie Miller Wotton | Assistant |
| John Cook Wyllie | Assistant, Nights and Sundays |
| Henry Rolfe DuPuy | Assistant, Evenings |
| Randolph Warner Church | Assistant, Evenings |
| Thomas Edison Burnett | Shelf Assistant |
| Blanche Maydell Wallace | Assistant, Periodical Room |
| Luther Ward Greene | Assistant, Periodical Room, Evenings |
| Frances Smith | Assistant, Government Document Room |
| Ella Watson Johnson | Cataloguer |
| Jane Grigsby Farrar | Cataloguer, In Charge of Filing |
| Lucy Trimble Clark | Cataloguer |
| Aletta Wood | Cataloguer |
| Olive Dickinson Clark | Cataloguer |
| Lucy Herr Smith | Assistant, Library of Congress Catalogue |
| Norma Via Barr | Assistant |
| Frances Diggs | Stenographer |
| Catherine Lipop Graves | Law Librarian |
| Nellie Wingfield Smith | Assistant to the Law Librarian |
| John Edward Smith | Assistant, Nights |
| Margaret Mattern Otto, M.A. | Medical Librarian |
| Achilles Lacy Tynes, Jr., B.S. | Assistant, Nights |
| Charles William Rodgers, Jr. | Assistant, Evenings |
| Frances Bruffey | Education Librarian |
| Calvin Hall Phippins, B.A. | Night Assistant |
| John Elmer Weldon, B.A. | Night Assistant |
| Edward Alvin Davis | Night Assistant |
| David Barr Webb | Night Assistant |
LOCATION
The General Library, the Periodical Room, the Government Document
Room, and the Virginia Room are located at the Rotunda.
The Law Library is located on the second floor of Minor Hall.
The Medical Library is located on the main floor at the northeast corner of
the new Medical Building.
The Heck Memorial Library of Education is located on the second floor of
Peabody Hall.
The departmental libraries and other collections are located as follows:
Art and Architecture, in Fayerweather Hall.
Astronomy, in the Leander McCormick Observatory.
Biology and Botany, in the Biological Laboratory.
Bruce Library, in the Graduate House.
Chemistry, in Cobb Hall.
Classics (Hertz Library), in Cabell Hall.
Engineering, in the Mechanical Laboratory.
Geology, in the Lewis Brooks Museum.
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, in the Social Science
Building.
Mathematics, in Cabell Hall.
Music, in the Music Room.
Physics, in the Rouss Physical Laboratory.
Rural Social Economics, in the Social Science Building.
HOURS OF OPENING
The General Library (Rotunda) is open on week days from 9:00 A. M.
to 10:30 P. M., and on Sundays from 2:30 to 5:30 P. M.
The Periodical Room (Rotunda) is open Monday through Friday from
9:00 A. M. to 6:00 P. M.; on Saturday from 9:00 A. M. to 4:00 P. M.;
on Sunday from 4:00 to 6:00 P. M.
The Government Document Room and the Virginia Room (Rotunda) are
open on week days from 9:00 A. M. to 4:00 P. M.
The Law Library (Minor Hall) is open daily, with Librarians in attendance
on week days from 9:00 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., from 3:00 to 5:00 P. M.,
and from 7:30 to 10:00 P. M.
The Medical Library (Medical Building) is open on week days from 9:00
A. M. to 1:00 P. M., from 2:30 to 6:00 P. M., and on week days excepting
Saturday from 7:30 to 10:30 P. M.
The Heck Memorial Library of Education (Peabody Hall) is open on
week days except Saturday from 9:00 A. M. to 12:30 P. M., from 1:45 to
4:30 P. M., and from 7:30 to 9:30 P. M. It is open on Saturdays from 9:00
A. M. to 1:00 P. M.
LOAN OF BOOKS
Books may be borrowed from the General Library by the following: (1)
officers, professors, and students of the University; (2) former officers and
professors who are residing at the University; and (3) card-holders. The
card-holders make a deposit of five dollars and 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. Officers, professors, or students
may not borrow books for the use of others.
The following classes of books are, however, 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
numbers of current periodicals; (4) books of rare or special value.
SIZE OF COLLECTIONS
In the University libraries combined there was on January 1, 1929, a total
of 158,557 volumes These were located as follows:
| Collections at the Rotunda | 87,113 volumes |
| Law Library | 23,208 volumes |
| Medical Library | 6,679 volumes |
| Heck Memorial Library of Education | 6,157 volumes |
| Departmental libraries and other collections | 35,400 volumes |
| 158,557 volumes |
This total does not include unbound material. The Periodical Room in
the General Library, the Medical Library, the Heck Memorial Library of
Education, and the departmental libraries together receive 515 current periodicals;
and the Law Library receives seventy-six periodicals. In the Periodical
Room there are files of over 800 periodicals.
| The University of Virginia record March 15, 1929 | |