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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
 
ROBERT HENNING WEBB, M.A., Ph.D.  Professor of Greek 
CARROLL MASON SPARROW, B.A., Ph.D.  Professor of Physics 
ABRAHAM BERGLUND, B.A., Ph.D.  Professor of Commerce and Business
Administration
 
FLOYD NELSON HOUSE, M.A., Ph.D.  Professor of Sociology 
HARRY CLEMONS, M.A., Secretary  Librarian 

STAFF

General Library

   
Harry Clemons, M.A.  Librarian 
Mary Louise Dinwiddie  Assistant Librarian 

Reference Division

 
John Cook Wyllie, B.A.  Assistant Reference Librarian 

Circulation Division

                     
Virginia Cloud Jacobs  Assistant in Charge, General Reading Room 
Margaret Mehring  Assistant, General Reading Room 
Randolph Warner Church, B.S.  [1] Student Assistant, General Reading Room 
George Welch Wyllie  [2] Student Assistant, General Reading Room 
Hubert Douglas Bennett  [3] Student Assistant, General Reading Room 
Ralph William LaShaum  [4] Student Shelf Assistant, General Reading Room 
Ernest Edward Northen, Jr.  [5] Student Messenger 
Nancy Wooding Driscoll  Assistant, Periodical Room 
William Daniel Cabell, B.A.  [6] Student Assistant, Periodical Room 
Edgar Coley Garrard, B.S.  [7] Student Assistant, Periodical Room 
Ella Frances Smith  Assistant, Government Document Room 
 
[1]

Part time.

[2]

Part time.

[3]

Part time.

[4]

Part time.

[5]

Part time.

[6]

Part time.

[7]

Part time.


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Preparations Division

Cataloguing Section

               
Ella Watson Johnson  Cataloguer 
Grigsby Farrar Bailey  Cataloguer 
Lucy Trimble Clark  Cataloguer 
Olive Dickinson Clark  Cataloguer 
Lucy Herr Smith, B.A.  Cataloguer 
Miriam Thomas Buchanan, B.A.  Cataloguer 
Elizabeth Ellis Carver  Assistant 
Mary Virginia Via  Assistant 

Recataloguing Section

         
Marjorie Dunham Carver  Cataloguer in Charge 
Eleanor Fransworth Harrison, B.A.  Cataloguer 
Bessie Stuart Anderson, B.S.  Cataloguer 
Dora Belle Mitchell Browning  Cataloguer 
Muriel Corbett McMurdo  Assistant 

Library of Congress Depository Catalogue Section

       
Elizabeth Lindsay Gordon  Assistant in Charge 
Nora Emma Diggs  Assistant 
Kittura Royster Land, B.S.Ed.  *Assistant 
Nancy Lea Marshall  *Assistant 

Acquisitions Division

     
Louise Savage, B.S.Ed.  Assistant in Charge 
Ela Frances Diggs  Secretary 
Virginia Jamie Earhart  Assistant for Binding and Exchanges 

Virginia Collection

       
Lester Jesse Cappon, Ph.D.  Archivist 
Frances Elizabeth Harshbarger, M.A.  In Charge of Virginia Collection 
Susie Chilton Palmer, M.S.  *Student Assistant 
Elbert Cox, B.A.  *Student Assistant 

Law Library

     
Catherine Lipop Graves  Law Librarian 
Nellie Wingfield Smith  *Assistant to the Law Librarian 
Howard Cecil Gilmer, Jr., B.A.  *Student Assistant 

Medical Library

       
Caroline Hill Davis  Medical Librarian 
Henry Rolfe DuPuy  *Student Assistant 
Charles Lawrence Stinson  *Student Assistant 
Elizabeth Lewis Saunders, B.A.  *Student Assistant 

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Heck Memorial Library of Education

   
Frances Bruffey  Librarian 
Alvin Carl Cooper  [8] Student Assistant 
 
[8]

Part time.

Bruce Library, Department of Graduate Studies

 
Randolph Warner Church, B.S.  [9] Librarian 
 
[9]

Part time.

Art and Architecture Library

 
Ruby Mae Walton, B.A.  Librarian-Secretary 

LOCATION

The General Library, including the Periodical Room, the Government
Document Room, and the Virginia Room, is located at the Rotunda.

The department libraries are located as follows:

The Law Library, on the second floor of Minor Hall.

The Medical Library, on the main floor at the northeast corner of the new
Medical Building.

The Heck Memorial Library of Education, on the second floor of Peabody
Hall.

The Bruce Library, in the Graduate House.

The Engineering Library, in the Mechanical Laboratory.

The school 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.

Chemistry, in Cobb Hall.

Classics, in Cabell Hall.

Commerce and Economics, in Monroe Hall.

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 libraries at the Rotunda and the Medical Library are 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 general reading room at the Rotunda is open on Sundays from 2:30 to
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The Law Library (Minor Hall) is open, 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 7:00 to 10:00 P. M.

The Heck Memorial Library of Education (Peabody Hall) is open on week
days except Saturday from 9:00 A. M. to 4:30 P. M., and from 7:30 to 10:00
P. M. It is open on Saturdays from 9:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M.

The Art and Architecture Library (Fayerweather Hall) is open on week
days except Saturday from 9:00 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., and from 2:30 to
5:30 P. M. It is open on Saturdays from 9:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M. It is
open at night from 7:30 to 9:30 P. M., except on Friday night.

LOAN OF BOOKS

All books may be used within the reading rooms.

Books may be borrowed for use outside of the general library by (1)
members of the University; (2) former officers and professors who are
residing at the University; and (3) card holders. Cards are issued to residents
of Charlottesville and vicinity and to visitors to the University who
are guaranteed in writing by a member of the faculty who is of professorial
rank and who is not a member of the library staff.

Loans outside of Charlottesville or vicinity may also be made by interlibrary
loan through a local library or by arrangement with the Extension
Division of the University.

Reference books, rare books (including genealogical works), and current
numbers of magazines are not loaned out of the general library. Certain rare
editions which are desired for reading in connection with university courses
may be loaned on receipt of written request from the Professor in charge of
the course.

Books reserved for collateral reading may be borrowed for over night use
one-half hour before the closing of the library. Reserved books are not to be
removed from the reading room at other times unless written permission
has been granted by the professor for whom the books have been reserved.

During vacations between terms students may borrow books up to the
number of five by leaving a money deposit with the circulation librarians.

Books borrowed by members of the faculty of professorial rank or by instructors
who are not taking graduate courses are subject to return on request
by the librarians; all such loans should be returned before the first of June
of each year, and records previous to that date should be cleared before further
borrowing of books.

All other loans are for periods of two weeks or less, the date of return
being indicated on the slip within the back cover of the book. The borrower
should examine this date in each case, since at the end of each term the period
of loan is shortened and during the summer quarter the regular period is
one week.

All except professorial loans are subject to fines of ten cents a day for
late return, and also to the replacement cost of the book for loss or defacement.
On reserved books there is a fine of ten cents an hour but not to
exceed twenty-five cents for the first day, and fines of twenty-five cents a
day for each succeeding day or part of day. The maximum fines are three


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dollars for an ordinary loan and five dollars for the loan of a reserved book.
Further accumulation of fines ceases as soon as the loss of a book is reported.

If any fines remain unpaid for fifteen days after the date on which they
are due, the Librarian shall, by resolution of the Rector and Visitors, notify
the Dean of the Department in which the student is entered, and such student
shall by him be required to cease his privileges as a student until the
library account has been satisfactorily settled.

SIZE OF COLLECTIONS

In the University libraries combined there was on January 1, 1931, a
total of 177,202 volumes. These were located as follows:

               
Collections at the Rotunda  98,330 volumes 
Law Library  24,277 volumes 
Medical Library  8,092 volumes 
Heck Memorial Library of Education  7,263 volumes 
Bruce Library, Graduate School  1,053 volumes 
Engineering Library  4,111 volumes 
School libraries and other collections  34,076 volumes 
177,202 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 school libraries together receive 796 current periodicals;
and the Law Library receives 85 periodicals. There are back files, somewhat
incomplete, of about 1,000 periodicals.