APPENDIX 10 

 REPORT ON THE LIBRARY 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the activi- 

 ties of the library of the Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year 

 eiidedJune 30, 1930: 



THE LIBRARY 



The Smithsonian library, or library system, is composed of the 

 10 major and 3G minor libraries of the Institution. It numbers 

 somewhat more than 800,000 volumes, pamphlets, and charts, of 

 which many are on art, literature, history, music, and philosophy, 

 but most on science and technology. The system is especially strong 

 in serial publications and in the reports, proceedings, and transac- 

 tions of the learned societies and institutions of the world. The 

 major units are the Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Congress, 

 the Smithsonian office library, the Langley aeronautical library, and 

 the libraries of the United States National Museum, the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, the Astrophysical Observatory, the National 

 Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Division of Radiation 

 and Organisms, and the National Zoological Park. The minor units 

 are the sectional libraries of the National Museum. The system, 

 with its highly specialized collections, the gathering of which has 

 been proceeding since 1846, the date when the Smithsonian began 

 its work, has brought to the Institution and through it to the Gov- 

 ernment and to American scholars generally the results of the re- 

 search of the world during its most important scientific era, and thus 

 has contributed not a little to the fulfilment of the purpose for which 

 the Institution was founded, namely, that of increasing and diffusing 

 knowledge among men. 



CHANGES IN STAFF 



A number of changes occurred in the staff. Miss Isabel L. Towner, 

 assistant librarian in the National Museum, after several years of 

 noteworthy service, resigned to accept an editorial position in New 

 York. She was succeeded by Miss Leila G. Forbes, a graduate of 

 St. Lawrence University and of the Pratt Library School, who had 

 been for many years librarian of Randolph-Macon Woman's College. 



Miss Ethel A. L. Lacy, assistant librarian in the National Museum, 

 also resigned to take a position in another Washington library. Her 

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