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Page 8 Plant and equipment, June 30, 1949 PLANT Land, 5*532 acres* including 1,698-acre farm at UrbanaChampaign, 711 acres in other farms, 771-acre airport, and Robert Allerton Park, 1,744 acres... ..*.....$ 3,420,725 Buildings, 84 major, 72 minor, and others ............ 35,933,349 Uncompleted buildings * ......*..;.*... 6,755,756 Improvements, service lines, pavements, walks, lighting.* 6,264,821 Library, books, etc. * • ...•,.... ..•...•.»... 5,212,277 Moveable equipment....*.....* <»•.*.»•••,..»««*..•* 13,061,456 Properties held by U. of:111. Foundation ........, 1,454,041 Total investment in plant in use by University ........$72,102,425 Less indebtedness on propertie s he Id by Foundation....* 359,833 Net investment in plant, June 30, 19^9-• ;.•*... $71,742,592 *This does not include 5,072 acres held as assets of endowment funds. These are valued at $743,062. On them are buildings valued at $115,627. New buildings under construction Dec. 1, 1949 NEW BUILDINGS and their estimated cost including equipment At Urbana-Champaign-Chemlstry and Chemical Engineering-... ............ $3,400,000 Animal Science laboratory.............. 2,500,000 Veterinary Science unit...... *.. 1,800,000 Staff apartments providing an additional 106 units..... 1,038,000 ($200,000 from tax funds, balance a private loan to be repaid by income from the apartments) At Chicago-Hospital addition...................................... 8,200,000 The U niversity library contains more books and other mater- LIBRARY ials than that of any other state university, and is third among all American universities, exceeded only by Harvard and Yale. The June 30, 1949 report shows 2,802,178 items in its collections. This includes books, 2,283,501; pamphlets, 455,083; films, 1,519; manuscripts, 4,136; music scores and parts, 22,958; maps, 27,512; prints, broadsides, etc., 6,615; sound recordings, 854. These figures include the main and departmental libraries at UrbanaChampaign, the Quine Library of Medical Sciences on the Chicago professional campus (99,295 items), and the Chicago Undergraduate Division library (33,215 items). In addition to the catalogued items, the library has thousands of films, manuscripts, recordings, and maps available for use but not fully catalogued. The library is used very heavily by students and staff in teaching and research, with recorded calls at Urbana-Champaign alone exceeding 1,000,000 a year. Library director is Robert B. Downs.