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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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LIBRARY 39 casts, models, prints, and drawings, such as are usually found in the best art schools, and a model in plaster and a complete set of drawings of a competitive design by Henry Lord Gay for a monument to be erected in Rome, commemorative of Victor Emanuel, first king of Italy. LIBRARY FACILITIES The library contains 44,000 volumes and 3,500 pamphlets. The reading room contains 411 periodicals. The library of the State Laboratory of Natural History and that of the Agricultural Experiment Station contain about 9,500 volumes and 17,000 pamphlets. Both these libraries are open to students of the University. The Public Library of the City of Champaign has recently tecome the possessor of the valuable library of western history collected by the late Edward G. Mason, Esq., President of the Chicago Historical Society. The collection is thus made accessible to University students. The library and the reading room are open every day, except Sunday, from 8 a. m. until 5 p. m., and from 6:30 p. m. until 9 p. m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
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