titles (comprising thousands of volumes) and a temporary file of 

 893 titles (also comprising thousands of volumes). A considerable 

 number of books and periodicals on the Far East that have not been 

 reclassified remain in the General Library. 



Curator Kenneth Starr and Dr. Hoshien Tchen (both of the De- 

 partment of Anthropology) continued their program of adding to the 

 East Asia Library specialized bibliographic materials of two types in 

 both oriental and occidental languages: (1) general works on anthro- 

 pology and culture-history of China and other regions of East Asia 

 and (2) technical books on Chinese rubbings and the stone and bronze 

 objects from which they are taken. During the year Dr. Tchen cata- 

 logued 60 titles comprising some 450 volumes. 



Because of its very nature a research library must grow. The 

 physical expansion of the Botany Library is a problem that will need 

 solution within the next few years. The overcrowded section housing 

 materials classified under the Library of Congress system has been 

 temporarily adjusted by a general shifting of all the volumes in the 

 Botany Library and removal to the General Library of material not 

 in regular use by the Department of Botany. This strenuous and 

 painstaking work was done by members of the Botany staff. 



Because many of the titles acquired by the Museum Library in 

 its specialized fields are not reported by other libraries, this Library 

 during the past year has initiated the policy of contributing a copy 

 of each original catalogue card for books of 1956 and later imprints 

 to the National Union Catalog for inclusion in Library of Congress 

 Catalog — Books; Authors, in addition to reporting all entries of earlier 

 imprint date to the National Union Catalog. Locations of all copies 

 of each title reported are indicated here, and this service is particu- 

 larly important for works that are held uniquely by a single library. 

 Analytics for monographs in series that are not analyzed by the 

 Library of Congress also were reported. Altogether 546 cards were 

 copied and submitted during the year, including many in Chinese 

 and other oriental languages. 



After the Rare Book Room was renovated and rearranged in 1958, 

 a complete card file for all volumes in this collection was made and 

 filed in the room. This card file contains 308 entries 



A total of 10,559 cards was made for the card catalogue, repre- 

 senting 1,429 titles and 4,138 volumes. Additionally, 1,212 cards 

 were made for the Authorities File to be used as reference by the cata- 

 loguing staff. Altogether 1,078 monographs were analyzed. Transla- 

 tions into English totaled 310 (the task of translating correspondence 

 and printed material for members of the Museum staff is shared by 

 the Associate Librarian with the Librarian and Reference Librarian) . 



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