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THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
The Library Council. The President of the University; Jared T. Newman,
of the Board of Trustees; the Librarian; Professors 0. A. Johannsen and W. B.
Carver, representing the Group of Sciences; Professors C S. Northup and G. L.
Hamilton, representing the Group of Letters.
The Library Staff. Librarian: Willard Austen. Assistant Librarian: E.
R. B. Willis. Honorary Librarian of the President White Library: G. L. Burr
(Professor of History, Emeritus). Curator of the Icelandic Collection: Professor
Halldor Hermannsson. Curator of the Petrarch and Dante Collections: Professor
G. L. Hamilton. Supervisor of the Accessions Division: Alexis V. Babine, A.M.
Supervisor of the Order Division: Elizabeth Sage Ingersoll. Supervisor of the
Catalogue: Emma Avalyn Runner, B.S. Supervisor of Periodicals: Lillian
Leland. Senior Cataloguer: Emma Romelia Speed, A.B. Junior Cataloguer:
Alice Caroline Howe. Supervisor of Circulation: Anna Gregory. Supervisor of
the Stacks Division: George de Grassi. Cataloguer: Muriel Eldra Farr. Librar
ian of the Law Library: E. E. Willever.
of Agriculture: W. W. Ellis.
Librarian of the New York State College
The University Libraries comprise the General Library of the
University, the Seminary Libraries in the general library building,
the Architectural Library, the Chemical Library, the Sibley Engi
neering Library, the Civil Engineering Library, the Law Library, the
Flower Veterinary Library, the Barnes Hall Library, the Gold-
win Smith Hall Library, the Van Cleef Memorial Medical Library,
and the Library of the New York State College of Agriculture. The
total number of classified volumes and pamphlets in these is now about
seven hundred and fifty thousand. The number of periodicals, trans
actions, and other serials, currently received, is over two thousand
and of most of these complete sets are on the shelves.
The general library building is the gift of Henry W. Sage. The
general reading rooms contain accommodations for two hundred and
seventy readers, and the open book cases around the rooms provide
shelf room for twelve thousand volumes. In the tower are the great
bell of the University, the gift of Mrs. Mary White, and the chime of
bells, the gift of Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske.
The income of an endowment fund of three hundred thousand
dollars, given by Henry W. Sage in 189 1, is devoted to the purchase
of books and periodicals. The free income of an endowment fund of
five hundred and three thousand dollars, received in 1906 by the be
quest of Willard Fiske, is expended for the uses and purposes of
the Library, with specific provision for the maintenance and increase
of the Icelandic and Italian collections.
Supplementing the general card catalogue of the library, there
have been issued printed catalogues of the President White collections
on the Protestant Reformation (1889) and the French Revolution
(1894), and of the Rhaeto-Romanic collection (1894), the Dantecollection
(1900), and its Supplement (1921), the Icelandic collection
(19 1 4), the Petrarch collection, and the Runic collection.
The library is primarily for the use of University
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