University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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The Law Library contains more than sixteen thousand volumes. Here the student has at his disposal all of the decisions of the courts of last resort of the United States and of the State of Michigan, as well as those of cther leading states of the Union. Cases of English courts are found in the English reports. Periodical sup- plements constantly keep these reports up to date. Other books found in this division are the American Digest Reports, the Corpus Juris and Rul- ing Case Law, both of which are legal encyclopedias, the statutes of Michigan, the ordinances of City of Detroit, and current publications of leading law schools. The Dental Library, founded last September, comprises the third unit of the University library. Quarters for its housing in the Dinan Building Wdddg ie sBRiESct i Phebebs § Z EIRCRESht Leltl hee qneceqee ttt ae — rent (fot pe se ane Left: The south wing of the General Library. Right: A section of the Law Library. are now being arranged. Although this unit was only begun last fall, more than seven hundred volumes and many magazines of interest to the Dentistry student have been gathered as a nucleus. The Annex, which houses the over- flow from the general collection, is located in the Chemistry building. It contains reference material in lesser demand, foreign periodicals, magazines which have ceased publication, and rare books, of which the University has quite a collection. Large sets of scholarly works dealing with the his- tory of the Catholic church are also kept here. Aerial view of the uptown campus, showing the buildings now tn use, as well as the proposed site of the future medical unit. 16

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY In the fifty-six years of its existence the University Library has grown from a one-room donated unit to its present size consisting of three dis- tinct divisions which house some eighty-one thousand volumes. Established in a single room of the first college building, the General Student’s Library began in 1877 with one hundred volumes. By 1890 several thousand volumes had been acquired and the library was removed to the first floor of the newly erected Detroit College building on the north side of Jefferson avenue. The space provided was equivalent in size to that of three classrooms. Crowded conditions caused by the foundine, of the law Library in 1912 resulted in another change for the general division. [his unit was then removed to the second floor of the same building, leaving the Law Upper Loft: Charging desk in the General Library. Upper Right: Rev. Edward Bergin, S.J., Librarian. Lower Left: Dorris M. Berning, Ph.B., Assistant Librarian; Ruth A. Hill, Law Librarian. Library to occupy the old quarters. In 1916 the legal division was trans- ferred to its present quarters on the second floor of the Dinan building. With the establishment of the new campus on the Six Mile Road, a third change of location became necessary for the general collection. ‘The great- er portion of the top floor in the En- gineering building was set aside to meet its needs, pending the gathering of funds for the erection of a library building. Approximately sixty-five thousand volumes dealing with subjects of in- terest to the Arts and Sciences, Com- merce and Finance, and Engineering students are to be found in this sec- tion. In addition some 325 perio- dicals ofa, general, cultural’ or tech- nical nature are received regularly. The U. of D. library is one of a num- ber of libraries, in the state of Mich- igan, which has been designated as a depository library. As a depository for United States government publi- cations, it has been placed on the mail- ing lists of the government printer for certain specified documents, which are mailed to the library upon publi- cation and preserved there as perma- nent records and sources of informa- tion.

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Whose walls re-echo datly to the sound, Of learning and philosophy profound.