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322z1/2+- University of Illinois 5,3 SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY - REPORT FOR 1923-24 To the Senate: Your Committee on the Library begs leave to submit the following report for the past year. Tor the fiscal year 1923-24 the appropriation by the Board of Trustees for "Library additions" was $75,000 for the purchase of books, periodicals and for binding. This appropriation was assigned to the general library and to the various schools, colleges and departments by the Committee on Apportionment of Library Funds upon the recommendation of the Senate Library Committee. A schedule of these assignments for the past year follows. The "regular" assignments have been repeated from year to year for several years, though the amount for any one purpose or department has frequently been changed; the "special" assignments have generally not been repeated from year to year, a new list being made up to meet the larger special needs of each year. "REGULAR" BOOK ASSIGNMENTS GENERAL General and Ref. books $ 2,000 Admin. Officers t 500 General Continuations 1,000 Dups. for Gen. Library Express, Freight, etc. 1,600' Sets & Completion of Sets 4,000 Periodical.Subscriptions 10,000 Reserve or Emergency 3,000 Binding 15,000 Total for General $37,400
liberal ARTS AND SCIENCES, Art and Design Astronomy Eacteriology Classics English German Eistory Philosophy Political Science Psychology COLLEGE OF 150 100 250 600 i, 200 500 1.,500 500 700 200 Romance Sociology Botany Chemistry Entomology Geology Mathematics Physiology Zoology Total for L. A. & S. S800 400 700 1,000 500 800 150 700 $11,050 ENGINEERING COLLEGE OF Architecture Ceramics Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mining Engineering 400 350 Mun. & San. Engin. Railway Engineering Physics General Engineering Drawing General Engin. Sets Total for Engineer ing $ 25 1.,025 $3,900 AGRICULTURE, COLLEGE OF $ 2,900 COMMERCE, COLLEGE OF (From Commerce Funds $3,000) 2,000 EDUCATION, COLLEGE OF 600 LAW, COLLEGE OF (From Law Funds $6,500) LIBRARY SCHOOL MUSIC, SCHOOL OF TOTAL "REGULAR" ASSIGNMENTS 400 58,550
"SPECIAL" ASSIGNMENTS FOR 1923-24 1. For a collection of Venetian Manuscripts, in Leipzig; pribed at $2,050 before the war, and ordered by us; order cancelled because of war conditions; requested again by Prof. Lybyer, $ 1,700 S. For comparative literature (English 54); duplicate copies for use of students' required reading; translationo of German, Italian, French, Greek and Latin. 100 3, For subscription to National Union List of serials, authorized last year, 4. For books in English literature and philology, to be purchased by Prof. Zeitlin, while abroad. 1, 5. For books in the field of the historical novel, to be purchased while abroad by Professor Bernbaum 325 6. To continue building up our source collections in American history, requested by Professor T. C. Pease. 700 7. For books on the ancient history, of the Near East, especially Egyptology, to be, selected by Professor Olmstead, est 250 8. For books on ancient history of the Near East, especially texts, commentari s, linguistics, etc. of early Hebrew and Christian works, to be selected by W. A. Oldfather. 250 9. For Italian government documents especially from 1848 or 1870 to date; requested by Professor Lybyer, 400 10. For books on Latin American history, economics, law, etc, to be selected by Professor Robertson. 800 11. For South American belletristic literature, to be selected by Miss Krieg. 100 12. For the purchase of the best contemporary Spanish fiction and drama, requested by Professors FitzGerald and McKinzie. 200 13. For the Centenary edition of Don Quixote, requested by Professors McKenzie and FitzGerald. 275 14. For duplicate set of U. S. Supreme Court Reports prior to 1913; for political science seminar, requested by Professor Garner. 400
-4-15. For British Parliamentary papers, to make our set more complete. 16, For works on statistics and acturial problems; requested by Prof. Townsend. 17, For sets for Chemistry library; requested by Professor Adams 18. For sets in Railway engineering; requested by Professor King. 19. For purchase of Geymuller and 31 recent architectural books needed; requested by Professor Provine. 20. For books on biography and travel, to be selected chiefly from second hand catalogs by the Reference i brarians. 21. Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhbchsten Kaiserhauses, Vienna. 22. For the purchase of the Library of the late Professor MacGillivray, 23. For binding books and periodicals, 34. For the purchase of periodicals and sets, especially volumes and runs needed to make our present sets more complete. TOTAL %SPECIAL" ASSIGNMENTS S400 250 500 150 850 600 1,400 800 1,800 2,600 16,450 In addition to the Library appropriation as above stated, there was spent for books last year, out of Departmental, College, Graduate School and other funds, $21,641i03; the largest single items making up this amount were Law, $6,763.90; Architecture, 1i,961.11; Commerce, 32,864.56; Graduate School, $5,288.47; University High School Library, $845.84. Book orders for these amounts, in addition to the general Library appropriation, were handled by the Library, and most of the books so purchased were cataloged and made apart of the Library.
-5- The plans for the new library building were finished by the architect during this last year. The general schemes were brought before the Committee by the Supervising Architect, and discussed at length, the Committee being asked to express its opinion on various general questions, such as sizes of reading rooms, heights of ceilings, and location of seminar rooms. The many details that come up in making the plans of a working University Library were, of course, determined by the conferences of the architects with the Librarian. The appropriation of 8750,000, made by the last legislature, was made for the erection of the first unit only, which includes the large main reading room on the second floor, the two reserved book reading rooms on the first floor, and the delivery rooms in the rear. There will also be rooms in the basement for storage and on the third or attic floor for seminar and study rooms. Until another section of the building is erected, it will be necessary to use the third floor for the catalog and order departments of the Library, It is hoped that in the next appropriation, the state can provide money to erect a unit to provide the regilar book stacks, staff work rooms, Library School rooms, and seminars to meet the normal demands of the University for the next ten or twelve years. There are appended to this report tables showing the growth and work of the Library. A. P. Carman, Chairman P. L. Windsor, Secretary for the Committee. October 4, 1924.
-6- Growth of the Library since 1911-12 (Omitting Chicago departments) Total vols. Total Pieces No. of No. of Vols. Vols. added vols. of sheet pams. maps added added by during in music in in Lib. in Year by gift exchange year Lib. Lib. (Catalogued.) Lib. 1911-12 4,461 1,436 29,158 209,529 2,161 24,258 1912-13 4,705. 1,341 24,057 233,586 2,632 26,736 1913-14 5,332 1,748 29,340 262,926 3,341 29,395 1914-15 3,985 2,441 37,666,592 3,692 34,923 1,541 1915-16 3,877 767 30,303 330,895 3,853 39,760 1,829 1916-17 4,521 970 30,787 361,682 4,121 47,289 2,042 1917-18 3,323 311 26,317 387,999 4,318 48,596 2,128 1918-19 2,894 442 23,454 411,453 4,796 49,448 2,128 1919-20 3,436 818 22,917 434,370 5,524 50,888 2,128 1920-21 3,126 1,041 17,352 451,722 5,646 52,010 2,128 1921-22 4,815 1,140 28,873 480,595 6,004 53,035 2,256 1922-23 3,194 417 25,223 505,567 6,149 53,577 2,687 1923-24 2,244 359 29,219 534,786 6,346 54,760 2,860 Oct. 1 1,027 129 5,081 539,867 6,357 55,113 2,860 1924 Total No. of volumes, pieces of sheet music, pamphlets, and maps in the library, fully or partially catalogued, Oct. 1, 1924, 604,197 Unaccessioned miscellaneous vols, on hand, not included above, 182,750 Unaccessioned Cevagna library, about 35,900 volumes besides many manuscripts, pamphlets, maps, etc.
7- SGIFTS AND EXCHANGES 19c0-21 1921-22 1922-23 1923-24 1o. of volumes, pamphlets, reports, bulletins, etc. (excluding periodicals and duplicates) received by gift and by exchange 19,368 20,438 10,136 11,532 CIRCULATION NUMBER OF VOLUMES USED Volurmes loaned for home use. General Library 1920-21 i921-22 1922-23 1923-24 33,473 38,655 37,990 38,299 Departmental and seminar libraries Total circulation 78,012 111,485 80 114 104,333 113,554 118,769 141,313 151,853 Reference use of books within the libraries, so far as recorded. Total Recorded Use 79,970 191,455 93,018 110,608 115,115 211,787 251,921 266,968 INTERLIBRARY LOANS 1920-321 1922-23 1923-24 Volumes loaned to institutions 306 487 509 Volumes loaned to individuals, generally in Illinois communities having no library. 146 126 110 124 Total Loans 443 432 597 633 Volumes borrowed from other institutions for use of faculty or students 226 257 364 288