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SOME STATISTICS 



The accessions to the libraries were as follows : 



Volumes 



Pamphlets 

 and charts 



Total 



Approximate 



holdings, 

 June 30.1939 



Astrophysical Observatory ., 



Bureau of American Ethnology 



Freer Gallery of Art 



Ijangloy Aeronautical 



National Collection of Fine Arts 



National Museum 



National Zoological Park. _ 



Kaoiation and Organisms. - 



Smithsonian Deposit, Library of Congress - 

 Smithsonian office 



80 



223 



1,952 



33 



207 



2, 28,'-| 



30 



163 



2,941 



105 



108 



108 



16 



220 



1,039 



11 



4 



2,374 



14 



188 



223 



2, 000 



49 



427 



3,324 



41 



167 

 6,315 



119 



9.679 



« 61, 618 



15, 437 



3,443 



6,767 



214, 034 



3,782 



436 



663. 385 



30,746 



Total - 



8,019 



3,894 



» 11, 913 



9,327 



' The holdings of the library of the Bureau of American Ethnology were reduced somewhat during the 

 year by the elimination of material not pertinent to the work of the Bureau. 



» From both the accessions for the year and the total holdings are omitted thousands of publications 

 waiting to be completed, bound, or cataloged. 



To the various libraries, then, the staff added 11,913 volumes, 

 pamphlets, and charts, or 1,021 more than in 1938. They made 

 25,176 periodical entries and cataloged 7,298 publications — an increase 

 respectively of 1,184 and 849 over the previous year. They prepared 

 and filed 41,676 catalog and shelf list cards. They borrowed from 

 the Library of Congress and other libraries 2,516 publications and 

 loaned 11,559. They made progress with the index of Smithsonian 

 publications and the index of exchange relations. Finally, they 

 advanced the union catalog substantially, as follows : 



Volumes cataloged 4,532 



Pamphlets aiid charts cataloged 2,507 



New serial entries made 249 



Typed cards added to catalog and shelf list 7,095 



Library of Congress cards added to catalog and shelf list 13,810 



OTHER ACTIVITIES 



There were many other activities, a few of which may be men- 

 tioned. The staff began for the National Collection of Fine Arts 

 a card index of auction prices of works of art — a file that, when 

 completed, will provide information for use in replymg to inquiries 

 as to the market value of such objects; sorted out the George Brown 

 Goode papers that had been stored for years in the archives room 

 adjoining the west stacks and turned them over to the former librar- 

 ian; made special sendings of duplicates to the Marine Biologi- 

 cal Laboratory at Woods Hole and to the following colleges and 

 universities: Brown, Catholic, Columbia, Harvard, North Carolina, 

 Pennsylvania, "William and Mary, and Yale ; selected a large number 

 of books and serials from the surplus material in the west stacks for 

 inclusion in the reserve collection, against the time when they will 



