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numbers were reported to the correspondence division of the Smith- 

 sonian Hbrary, with the result that 131 were obtained in exchange. 

 The staff entered 1,247 periodicals. They catalogued 1,003 publica- 

 tions, classified 459, and added 7,675 cards to the catalog and shelf 

 list, 3,725 of which they withdrew from the Museum files, where, for 

 lack of adequate help, they had been obliged to leave them — many 

 at least — since the days when the Gallery was a section of the National 

 Museum and its library one of the Museum's sectional collections. 

 This work of reorganization has increased materially the usefulness 

 of the library as a reference tool in the activities of the Gallery. It 

 will be continued as trained assistants can be spared from their 

 duties elsewhere. The need of a full-time junior librarian in charge of 

 the collection has become fully apparent, and it is hoped that one can 

 soon be provided. 



FREER GALLERY OF ART LIBRARY 



The library of the Freer Gallery of Art has to do largely with the 

 culture and art of the Far East, India, Persia, and the nearer East. 

 Among its items are a number of important publications in Chinese 

 and Japanese, which supplement to a degree those in the oriental 

 division of the Library of Congress; also various books on American 

 painters — especially James McNeill Whistler, many of whose works 

 are in the Gallery — and on the famous fourth- and fifth-century 

 manuscripts of the Bible, known as the "Washington Manuscripts", 

 which are owned by the Freer. The main collection has 4,971 vol- 

 umes and 3,465 pamphlets. The accessions for the year were 114 

 volumes and 66 pamphlets. The field collection remained essentially 

 unchanged, at about 800 volumes and 500 pamphlets. In their effort 

 to complete the cataloging of the library, the staff made noteworthy 

 progress. They catalogued 670 volumes and 87 pamphlets, added 2,985 

 cards to the catalog and shelf list, and prepared 646 cards for the 

 union catalog at the Smithsonian Institution. They also entered 145 

 periodicals, sent 22 volumes to the binder}^, and rendered the usual 

 reference service. 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK LIBRARY 



The library of the National Zoological Park received special con- 

 sideration during the year. The entire collection was sorted, many 

 items not needed by the Park were transferred to the Smithsonian 

 Institution, and the rest were cataloged, entered, and arranged in 

 appropriate rooms of the administration building. In this con- 

 nection the staff, which consisted chiefly of C. W. A. workers, cata- 

 loged 2,088 volumes and pamphlets, filed 1,102 pamphlets roughly 

 according to subject, recorded 1,168 periodicals, added 2,505 cards to 

 the library catalog and shelf list, and prepared 1,718 others for the 



