APPENDIX 10 



REPORT ON THE LIBRARY 



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

 ties of the Smithsonian library for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1932 : 



THE LIBRARY 



The library of the Smithsonian Institution is really a library sys- 

 tem, for it comprises 45 distinct libraries, namely, the Smithsonian 

 deposit in the Library of Congress, office library, Langiey aeronauti- 

 cal library, radiation and organisms library, the libraries of the 

 United States National Museum, Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 Astroplwsical Observatory, National Gallery of Art, Freer Gallery 

 of Art, National Zoological Park, and the 35 sectional libraries of 

 the National Museum, which are the daily tools of the curators and 

 their assistants. The system contains somewhat more than 800,000 

 volumes, pamphlets, and charts, as well as many thousands of items 

 still uncatalogued or awaiting completion. 



THE STAFF 



At the close of the calendar year Miss Kate Gallaher, under 

 library assistant, after more than 50 years of faithful Government 

 service, most of it in the Smithsonian library, was retired, and her 

 place was filled by the promotion of Miss Virginia C. Whitney, 

 minor library assistant. To the vacancy thus occasioned was ap- 

 pointed Bruce Middleton, a graduate of the University of Rochester, 

 who had had several years of library and clerical experience in the 

 Rochester public library and the United States Census Bureau. The 

 services of Mrs. Grace A. Parler, in the library of the Freer Gallery 

 of Art, were continued. The other temporary employees were Mrs. 

 Daisy Cadle, Miss Frances Finch, Miss Alice Elizabeth Hill. Miss 

 Margaret Link, and Miss Jennette Seller. 



EXCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS 



In the course of the last year the library received 24,651 packages 

 of one or more publications each, most of them exchanges. Espe- 

 cially large sendings came from the Audubon Association of the 

 Pacific, San Francisco; Gesellschaft fur Erdkunde, Leipzig; Hiro- 

 shima University, Hiroshima ; Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barce- 

 lona; Landesmuseums-verein fiir Vorarlberg, Bregenz; Lingnan 



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