University of Virginia Library

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.