Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Library [PAGE 10]

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books, are located on the fourth floor, together with a few study and seminar rooms. Similar facilities for English are on the third floorIn general, it may be said that graduate students and faculty will use chiefly the two upper floors and the 140 cubicles in the bookstacks; undergraduates will use chiefly the two lower floors. There are now seats for 1800 readers in the various rooms. In the basement, are steel book shelves from the old Library building; it is intended to shelve duplicate books and bound volumes of newspapers in these rooms. The University library on May 1, 1929, contained 800,330 volumes, 164,750 pamphlets, 2,930 maps and 8,260 pieces of sheet music; of these 41,920 volumes and 7,800 pamphlets were in the libraries of the College of Medicine and the School of Pharmacy in Chicago. There were in the University library in Urbana 758,510 volumes and 156,950 pamphlets besides the maps and the sheet music; of these about 120,000 volumes are in college and departmental libraries in other buildings than the Library.