University of Virginia Library

Section E. Documents.

The largest collection of local Virginia documents is at
the University of Virginia, the Bureau of Public Administration
Library and the Virginia Collection in the General Library combining
to total 2,000 or more items. The State Library also has
a collection of considerable size.

In state documents the State Library leads, having 15,000 to
20,000 Virginia documents and approximately 50,000 from other

states. These figures do not include the sets in the State Law
Library. The College of William and Mary has also given emphasis
to the collection of Virginia state documents. There is a growing
collection of state documents at the University of Virginia; and
the Library of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute if effectively
supplied with state publications on agriculture, conservation,
geology, mines, and taxation.

To be a complete depository of United States federal documents
appears to be impossible unless pending legislation greatly
increases the availability of the material now being issued from
Washington. But the State Library, the College of William and
Mary (since March 1936), and the University of Virginia have
been officially designated as complete depositories. Partial
collections are currently received by Bridgewater College, Emory
and Henry College, Hampden-Sydney College, the Norfolk Public
Library, Roanoke College, Sweet Briar College, the University of
Richmond, Virginia Military Institute, and Washington and Lee
University.

The number of foreign documents available in the State is
very limited. Virginia Polytechnic Institute has a scattered
collection of about 350 volumes, sets of World War Records may
be found at the Coast Artillery School and the University of
Virginia, and the latter and Sweet Briar College have considerable
runs of Great Britain Parliamentary Debates.