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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1956 



SUMMARIZED STATISTICS 



ACCESSIONS 



Total 

 recorded 

 volumes, 



1956 



Smithsonian Deposit at the Library of Congress 



Smithsonian main library (including former Office and 



Museum libraries) . 



Astrophysical Observatory (including Radiation and 



Organisms) 



Bureau of American Ethnology 



National Air Museum 



National Collection of Fine Arts 



National Zoological Park 



586, 447 

 300, 383 



Total 



14, 842 



35, 977 



433 



13, 870 



4,205 



956, 157 



Unbound volumes of periodicals, and reprints and separates from serial publi- 

 cations, of which there are many thousands, have not been included in these totals. 



EXCHANGES 



New exchanges arranged 237 



Specially requested publications received 3,124 



CATALOGING 



Volumes cataloged 4, 748 



Catalog cards filed 29,553 



PERIODICALS 



Periodical parts entered 20, 534 



5,089 were sent to the Smithsonian Deposit. 



CIRCULATION 



Loans of books and periodicals 9, 276 



Circulation in sectional libraries is not counted except in the Division 

 of Insects. 



BINDING AND REPAIR 



Volumes sent to the bindery 8,016 



Volumes repaired in the library 1, 386 



Respectfully submitted. 



Leila F. Clark, Librarian. 

 Dr. Leonard Carmichael, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



