~EGULAR SESSION - University of Oregon

60 GENERAL INFORMATION
DOROTHY M. MANNING, M.L Catalog Librarian
ALICE NOLTE, M.S Scienee Librarian
GUIno PALANnRI, B.A., B.L.S Catalog Librarian
MIRIAM A. PERRY, B.A., Lib. Cert.......................................................... . Catalog Librarian
DOROTHY SCHERER, M.A. in L.S................................................. . Reference Librarian
ROSE MARIE SERVICE, M.A. Social Science Librarian
BETTY MAE STAMM, B.A _ Acquisition Librarian
LOIs BAKER, M.A _ Law Librarian
THOMAS H. CAHALAN, M.S. in L.S Dental School- Librarian
BERTHA HALLAM, B.A Medical School Librarian
FRANCES NEWSOM, M.A Architecture and Allied Arts Librarian
THE SERVICES of the University of Oregon Library are organized in broad
subject divisions: Social Science, Science, Humanities, and General Reference
and Documents. Each of the divisions has its own reading rooms, conveniently
integrated with its book collections. All University students have free access to
the book stacks.
The services of the subject divisions are supplemented by the Audio-Visual
Department, which provides facilities for the production, preservation, and use of
recordings, slides, films, and similar materials, and by the Special Collections
Department, which is responsible for the development and care of collections of
Pacific Northwest historical materials, rare books, manuscripts, and University
archives.
The University Library was founded in 1882 through a gift of books, worth
$1,000, selected and purchased by Henry Villard of New York City. Before 1882
the only library available to students was a collection of about 1,000 volumes owned
by the Laurean and Eutaxian student literary societies; this collection was made
a part of the University Library in 1900. In 1881 Mr. Villard gave the University
$50,000 as a permanent endowment; a provision of the gift was that at least $400 of
the income should be used for the purchase of nontechnical books for the Library.
In addition to the general Library collections, the University has a number
of specialized libraries with permanent collections. The holdings of the several
libraries are shown below:
General Library .
Law Library .
Gertrude Bass Warner Memorial Library .
Municipal Reference Library _ .
Medical School Library .
Dental School Library .
772,137
57,066
984
20,882
84,259
8,811
Total 944,139
Other materials in the University Library include: 67,037 maps; 104,584
photos, pictures, and prints; 11,076 sound recordings; 69,794 slides; 529 film
strips; 367 motion picture films; 88,513 uncataloged pamphlets; and 747,784
manuscripts.
The Library's facilities for undergraduate work are excellent, and strong
collections for advanced study and research are being built in the various fields of
liberal and professional scholarship. All of the books in the libraries of the institutions
of the Oregon State System of Higher Education are available to the
students and faculty of the University.
Some of the Library's resources of particular value for advanced study are:
a collection of source materials on English life and letters in the seventeenth century;
a collection of books, reports, and periodicals on English opinion and politics
of the nineteenth century, including considerable material on English liberalism
in its relation to public education; materials on the history of American education
in the nineteenth century; a collection of pamphlets on the English corn laws; the
Overmeyer Collection of published works on the Civil War; a collection of Balzaciana;
unusually extensive and complete files of psychological periodicals; an