42 BUILDING AND GROUNDS SERVICE For the student's class work and activities the College provides an adequate physical plant and a buildings and grounds staff which maintain an environment that is comfortable, healthful, and wholesome. INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS The College Library The College Library provides a rich store of materials especially selected to serve students and faculty who are following the curriculum. The collection which is constantly growing in cultural value, includes more than 25,000 volumes in addition to a working library of pamphlets, documents, and bibliographical aids. The College, through its library service, subscribes to 135 literary, scientific, and educational periodicals,as well as to state and national newspapers. The Library is located on the second floor of the Physical Science Building. The Library is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., except Friday when it closes at 5 p.m. On Saturday it opens at 12 o'clock noon. It is closed on Sundays and holidays when the school is not in session. Bureau of Audio-Visual Aids The College maintains an Audio-Visual Aids Bureau which administers the procurement, distribution, maintenance and utilization of audio-visual teaching materials and equipment. The Bureau is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Request for evening service may be made directly to the Bureau or to the assistant night school director in the Vocational Building. The Museums The Zoological Collection, a collection of vertebrate animals, mostly from the Intermountain Region, is housed in the Department of Biology. Preserved amphibians and reptiles, as well as standard study skins of birds and mammals from the nucleus of what is intended to become a survey collection of the vertebrates of the western United States. Several cases of mounted specimens and a synoptic survey of insects and other invertebrates are also available for study. The Weber College Herbarium is housed in the Department of Botany, Agriculture and Forestry. The herbarium is representative of the plants of Weber County and is being rapidly expanded to cover the flora of Utah and adjacent states. It also contains two hundred sheets of South Pacific plants, and several hundred plants from the eastern states. The herbarium is open to Weber College students and to others whose training is such as to enable them to profit by its use. The Geological Museum is located in the Department of Geology. The several collections of minerals, ores, rocks, and fossils add interest to geology classes. More than 150 species of fossil illustrate the development of life during geologic times. 43 Part of the several hundred specimens are arranged according to Dana, and others are from important or interesting localities. The rock collections, consisting of more than 300 specimens, are arranged to show rock types and localities. A very important collection is the John G. Lind collection of ores, minerals, and rocks collected during more than forty years of service by Dr. Lind. It includes large suites of specimens from mining areas and elsewhere in Europe, Mexico, and the United States. COLLEGE BOOKSTORE AND STORES DEPARTMENT The College Bookstore is maintained for the convenience of students and faculty. Here texts and supplies may be procured from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday and from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. During the first three weeks of the quarter the Bookstore is open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The Stores Department, where supplies are received and stored, is located in the basement of the West Central Building. FINANCIAL AID Scholarships Weber College grants tuition scholarships to neighboring high schools in accordance with the State law governing this activity. The numbers of awards granted to each school are based upon the percentage of freshmen in attendance from the respective schools during the previous year. Selections are made through the cooperation of the high school principals and faculty, the College division heads, and the Awards, Scholarship, and Eligibility Committee. The bases for granting scholarships are financial need, scholarship and in some categories an outstanding talent, such as music, speech arts, and athletics. All scholarship selections, however, must meet the college minimum academic, economic, and personal requirements, as determined by the Scholarship Committee. Scholarships for Special Merit 1. Chi Omega Scholarship. 2. Home Economics Award. 3. Iota Tau Kappa Scholarship. 4. Marian T. Read Award. 5. La Dianaeda Scholarship Award. 6. Lydia Holmgren Tanner Memorial Scholarship. 7. Soroptimist Club Scholarship. Senior Institutions of learning annually extend scholarships to Weber College graduates. The College through its Awards, Scholarships, and Eligibility Committee avails itself of such opportunities to obtain scholarships for graduates of the College. Included among this type of grant are those offered by the University of Utah, Utah State Agricultural College, Brigham Young University, as well as many senior institutions outside the State.