APPENDIX 9 



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, 

 1934. 



THE LIBRARY 



The various Ubraries of the Smithsonian, which have come into 

 being one by one since 1846 to meet the developing needs of the 

 Institution and its affiliated Government bureaus, comprise a library 

 system of well over 800,000 volumes, pamphlets, and charts. Its 

 chief unit is, of course, the Smithsonian deposit in the Library of 

 Congress ; next in size and importance are the libraries of the United 

 States National Museum and the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 The other units are the libraries of the Astrophysical Observatory, 

 Freer Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, National Zoological 

 Park, the Langley aeronautical library, Smithsonian office library, 

 radiation and organisms library, and the 35 worldng libraries in the 

 offices of the curators of the National Museum. Together they form 

 a cooperative sj^stem, with the deposit as the great central collection, 

 which, while to some extent more or less general in character, is for 

 the most part closely related to the special interests of the Institution 

 and its branches. 



CHANGES IN PERSONNEL 



On July 1, 1933, Leonard C. Gunnell, formerly assistant in charge 

 of the United States Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scien- 

 tific Literature (discontinued on June 30, 1933) was made an assistant 

 librarian and was assigned to certain bibliographical projects. Mrs. 

 M. Landon Reed, who had been a clerk for some years in the corre- 

 spondence division, retired the middle of the year, and her position 

 was filled by the transfer of Miss Josepliine A. McDevitt from the 

 Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



EXCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS 



The Smithsonian library has been built up partly — in the early 

 days — by the operation of the copj^right law, partly by purchase and 

 gift, but chiefly by the exchange of the publications of the Institution 

 and those of its official branches for the publications of other learned 

 institutions and societies and for various scientific and technical 

 journals. During the fiscal year just closed the library received 



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