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place was filled by the a]">i)ointinent of Miss Gcrtnirle L. Woodin, a 

 frraduate of "Wellesley ColK'jre and of the Albany Library School, 

 who had been for some time a junior librarian on the roll of the 

 International Exchanjrcs. Mrs. Hope Hanna SiTiunons, junior 

 librar}' assistant in the National ^fuseuni, was promoted to the va- 

 cant junior librarianship. Mrs. ^fary Arnold Baer, under library 

 assistant in the ^fuseuin, was advanced to Mrs. Simmons' former 

 position. Miss Marpjaret Moreland, a graduate of the library science 

 department of George Washington University, who was already 

 serving temporarily on the roll of the International Exchanges, was 

 selected to succeed Mrs. Tiaer. 



Miss Anna M. Link, a former teacher, and at present a student 

 of library science at George "Washington University, was appoii\ted 

 to the position of minor library assistant in the Astrophysical Ob- 

 servatory. ^Ir. William O. Grant, assistant messenger in the Na- 

 tional Museum, was given a better position elsewhere in the Insti- 

 tution, and Mr. Stephen Stuntz took his place. The temporary 

 employees were Mr. Alan Blanchard, Mrs. Daisy Cadle, Miss 

 Rosalie Dimmette, Miss Katherine Everliart, ^fiss Angela Moore, 

 Miss Margaret Moreland. i\Irs. M. Landon Reed, Miss Jcnnette 

 Seiler, Miss Eleanor Spielman, and Mrs. M. Frances Watkins. 



EXCnANOE OF PUBLICATIONS 



In the early days of the Institution the accessions to the library 

 usualh' came by purchase, gift, or copj-right — for in those days the 

 copyright law provided that one copy of each new book published 

 in the United States should be deposited in the Librar}' of Congress 

 and one in the Smithsonian librar3\ Increasingly, however, since 

 that time the accessions have come by exchange of publications with 

 editors of journals and with learned institutions and societies, until 

 now, while some are still obtained by purchase and gift, by far tlie 

 greater number are received in exchange. Many of the latter come 

 throTigh the United States International Exchange Service, which is 

 administered by the Institution. 



During the fiscal year just closed the Smithsonian library received 

 24,063 packages by mail and 2,077 through the Exchange, each con- 

 taining one or more publications. These were stamped and entered — 

 with the exception of the documents from foreign governments — and 

 assigned to the units of the library system in which they would be of 

 most use in furthering the work of the Institution and its branches, 

 but chiefly, of course, to the Smithsonian deposit and the library of 

 the National Museum. There were a number of unusually large 

 sendings, the largest being one of 208 pieces from the Academy of 

 Sciences at Heidelberg. This went far toward completing the set 

 of the Academy's publications in the deposit. 



