208 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1961 



EXCHANGES 



New exchanges arranged 289 



Specially requested publications received 1,867 



CATALOGING 



Volumes cataloged 12, 763 



Catalog cards filed 59,795 



PERIODICALS 



Periodical parts entered 81, 443 



CIRCULATION 



Loans of books and periodicals 28,822 



Circulation in the divisional libraries is not counted except in the Division of 

 Insects. 



BINDING AND REPAIR 



Volumes sent to the bindery 6, 200 



Volumes repaired in the library 3, 431 



Kespectfully submitted. 



Ruth E. Blanchard, Librarian. 

 Dr. Leonard Carmichael, 



Secretaiy^ Smithsonian Institution. 



