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AJsTSrUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1960 



Classification 



Packages 



Weight 



United States parliamentary docu- 

 ments received for transmission 

 abroad 



Publications received in return for 

 parliamentary documents 



United States departmental docu- 

 ments received for transmission 

 abroad 



Publications received in return for 

 departmental documents 



Miscellaneous scientific and literary 

 publications received for transmis- 

 sion abroad 



Miscellaneous scientific and literary 

 publications received from abroad 

 for distribution in the United States- 



Total 



Grand total 



Number 

 672, 565 



226, 511 



178, 345 



1, 077, 421 



Number 



6,482 



4,531 



53, 564 



Pounds 

 327, 142 



239, 316 



202, 324 



64, 577 



768, 782 



Pounds 



9,483 



11, 167 



88, 204 



108, 854 



1, 141, 998 



877, 636 



The packages of publications are forwarded to the exchange bu- 

 reaus of foreign countries by freight or, where shipment by such 

 means is impractical, to the foreign addressees by direct mail. Dis- 

 tribution in the United States of the publications received through the 

 foreign exchange bureaus is accomplished primarily by mail, but by 

 other means when more economical. The number of cases shipped to 

 the foreign exchange bureaus was 3,449, or 609 more than for the 

 previous year. Of these cases 993 were for depositories of full sets 

 of United States Government documents, these publications being 

 furnished in exchange for the official publications of foreign govern- 

 ments which are received for deposit in the Library of Congress. 



The total weight of the packages transmitted during the year 

 amounted to 870,784 pounds, which was 86,213 pounds more than was 

 transmitted in the previous fiscal year. There was allocated to the 

 International Exchange Service for ocean and domestic freight $35,- 

 052.54. With this amount it was possible to effect the shipment of 

 575,163 pounds. The weight of packages forwarded by mail and by 

 means other than freight was 295,621 pounds. Approximately 8,427 

 poimds of the full sets of United States Government documents 

 accumulated during the year because the Library of Congress had re- 

 quested suspension of shipment to certain foreign depositories. 



During the year, there was an increase of 10 percent in ocean freight 

 rates. The transportation cost for hauling books and periodicals to 

 the Baltimore piers remained at the 1959 level. 



