APPENDIX 11 



Report on the Library 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the activities 

 of the Smithsonian Library for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1951 : 



The 52,685 publications received in the library during the year came 

 from 91 foreign countries, dominions, colonies, and protectorates, as 

 well as from the United States. Access to this world-wide literary 

 coverage of scientific and cultural progress in its own special subject 

 fields, so important to the work of all branches of the Smitlisonian 

 Institution, is made possible largely by the cordial exchange relations 

 maintained between the Institution and the academies and learned 

 societies, the universities, museums, art galleries, observatories, and 

 other scientific and cultural organizations both at home and abroad. 

 This year 465 new exchanges were arranged, and 8,227 books, pam- 

 phlets, and periodical parts were received as the gratifying result of 

 576 special requests sent to issuing agencies for publications needed to 

 fill gaps in our collections. 



Although the larger number of the library's acquisitions were ex- 

 change publications, gifts were also numerous, and 9,552 volumes, 

 pamphlets, and periodicals came from many generous friends both in 

 and outside the Institution. The largest single gift of the year, a 

 collection of some 500 books and periodicals on philately, presented by 

 Malcolm Macgregor, of Bronx ville, N. Y., is an especially noteworthy 

 addition to tlie philatelic sectional library in the Department of 

 History. 



Most of the 2,111 volumes purchased during the year were recent 

 publications, but a few were some of the older out-of-print works 

 needed for reference in the Museum and the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, which fortunately came into the market at reasonable 

 prices. Subscriptions for 348 periodicals not obtainable by exchange 

 were also purchased. 



The grand total of 19,016 publications transferred to the Library of 

 Congress included 5,321 currently received volumes and periodicals 

 recorded and marked as permanent additions to the Smithsonian 

 Deposit there. Others were 1,526 doctoral dissertations mostly from 

 foreign imiversities, and 12,169 documents and miscellaneous publica- 

 tions on subjects having no immediate bearing on the work of the 

 Institution. 



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