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University, or sent them back to the Superintendent of Documents; 

 checked the University of California publications in the library and 

 returned about 600 duplicates; sent consignments of Smithsonian 

 duplicates to Harvard University, Yale University, and the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, in special exchange for recent 

 publications of these institutions that were needed by the librar}'^; 

 arranged for the return of many publications of the Institution and 

 its branches from libraries in which they were duplicates, that the}' 

 might again become available for exchange; and made notable progress 

 in reorganizing the technological library, in which 1,134 linear feet of 

 steel shelving were installed during the year. 



FOUR IMPORTANT PROJECTS 



The union catalog was advanced considerably, as the following 

 statistics will indicate: 



Volumes cataloged 4, 297 



Pamphlets cataloged 2, 382 



Charts cataloged 129 



Typed cards added to catalog and shelf list 14, 000 



Library of Congress cards added to catalog and shelf list 18, 780 



The reorganization of the order department of the library was 

 practically completed, with the result that the accuracy and efficiency 

 of its procedure were greatly increased. 



The file of the library's exchange relations, begun early in the year, 

 showed marked progress, thanks to the cooperation of the publica- 

 tions ofiices of the Smithsonian and Museum with the library. It is 

 expected that the file will be well along by the close of the next fiscal 

 year. It becomes more and more useful, especially as an aid in 

 determining the value of each exchange to the work of the Institution. 



A noteworthy beginning was also made on the dictionary index to 

 the publications of the Institution and its bureaus referred to in the 

 report for 1932. Library of Congress cards for the Smithsonian 

 Annual Report volumes to date and part of the Proceedings of the 

 National Museum were obtained and most of them fded. The next 

 Smithsonian series to receive attention will be the Miscellaneous 

 Collections. It may be added in this connection that the preparation 

 of a manuscript index to the first 36 volumes of the Proceedings — 

 which, when the task was undertaken early in the year, were the only 

 volumes issued by the Institution or its bureaus for which no Librarj' 

 of Congress cards were available — was finished by the staff and sent 

 to the Library. Already cards have been printed for half or more 

 of the volumes in question. 



Respectfully submitted. 



William L. Corbin, Librarian, 



Dr. C. G. Abbot, 



Secretary, Smitksonian Institution. 



