University of Virginia Library

THE HECK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

The Department of Education maintains its own library in Peabody Hall
named in honor of the first professor of Education in the University, the late
Professor William Harry Heck. The library was made possible through the
gift of Mrs. Anna Tuttle Heck of Professor Heck's private library containing
approximately 2,000 well-selected books on Education, and the transfer of all
books on Education from the General Library of the University. Splendid
equipment was procured through a gift of money from students in Education,
the Education Club and friends of Professor Heck. A gift of $3,000 from Mr.
Alfred W. Erickson of New York City has enabled the Department so to
strengthen its professional library as to offer very superior facilities to its
rapidly growing student body, by making possible the enrichment of every
course now offered. At present the library consists of approximately ten
thousand select books covering most fields of Education, a complete file of
publications of the United States Bureau of Education, various national, state
and foreign documents, state school laws, annual reports of state superintendents
of public instruction, city superintendents' reports, etc. Files of the
leading educational magazines are available for free use of the students. Exhibits
of elementary and high school texts for comparative studies are made
available through the generosity of various publishers.