SECRETARY'S REPORT 13 



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LIBRARY 



A major organizational change in the Smithsonian library was 

 effected during the year when the largest of its branches, the National 

 Museum library, was physically merged with the general library for- 

 merly located in the Smithsonian Building, and all major library 

 functions were consolidated. The consolidated library and offices are 

 housed in the Natural History Building. The library received 60,512 

 publications during the year, mostly by gifts and through exchanges 

 with other institutions and organizations. Noteworthy among the 

 gifts were more than a thousand volumes from the library of the late 

 Gen. John J. Pershing and more than 1,500 publications on stamps 

 from Franklin K. Brims, Jr., National Museum curator of philately. 

 Nearly 23,000 publications were transferred to the Library of Con- 

 gress, about 3,000 to the Army Medical Library, and 425 to other 

 Government libraries. From the library's huge collection of dupli- 

 cates, 11,420 pieces were sent to the United States Book Exchange. 

 At the close of the year the library's holdings totaled 938,740 volumes, 

 including 584,213 in the Smithsonian deposit at the Library of Con- 

 gress but exclusive of incomplete volumes of serials and separates 

 and reprints from serials. 



