Word: unbounded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Medical library at the University of Pennsylvania is growing very rapidly, and in several directions it is becoming the most complete in America. The two principal donors to the library have been Dr. Alfred Stille, who presented a splendid collection of books, numbering 3000 volumes, and 5000 unbound volumes and pamphlets, and Dr. William Pepper, provost of the university, who more recently gave the greater portion of his own medical library; $15,000 in money has also been received, and one half of it expended in the erection of the new library building, while the other half...
...present the total number of books in the Harvard library is 268,551. There should be added to this number nearly 100,000 volumes which are in the twenty-one subsidiary libraries. Yale has a library of more than 140,000 volumes. Both libraries contain many thousand unbound pamphlets and works...
...whole number of volumes in the several libraries of Yale University is over 190,000, to which may be added 75,000 unbound pamphlets. The University Library has 135,000 volumes: the Linonian and Brothers Library 30,000; the Law Library 9,000: the Sheffield Scientific School 6,000; the Lowell Mason Library of Church Music 4,000; the Trowbridge Reference Library of the Divinity School 3,000; while in addition should be mentioned libraries of the art and medical schools. About 7,000 volumes are added to the different libraries every year. The largest circulation, it is found...
...certificate. Three volumes can be taken at a time, and may be kept one month, and renewed, if not in demand. Any person keeping books beyond the prescribed time is subject to a fine of ten cents a day for each volume. Books reserved by officers of instruction, and unbound periodicals, are in open alcoves in the reading-room, and can be taken out, at the close of Library hours, when properly charged at the delivery desk, and must be returned the next morning at 9 o'clock. Encyclopaedias and other books of reference in the delivery room...
...certificate. Three volumes can be taken at a time, and may be kept one month, and renewed, if not in demand. Any person keeping books beyond the prescribed time is subject to a fine of ten cents a day for each volume. Books reserved by officers of instruction, and unbound periodicals, are in open alcoves in the reading-room, and can be taken out, at the close of Library hours, when properly charged at the delivery desk, and must be returned the next morning at 9 o'clock. Encyclopaedias and other books of reference in the delivery room...