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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1934 



union catalog at the Smithsonian. The Hbrary numbers 1,330 

 vohimes and 1,860 pamphlets. The additions were 108 volumes and 

 1,450 pamphlets. Among these were 308 publications of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and National Museum and 21 parts of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society of London that were missing from 

 the sets at the Park. These were obtained from the Smithsonian 

 library. 



SUMMARY OF ACCESSIONS 



The accessions for the year, which showed an increase of 3,527 over 

 1933, may be summarized as follows: 



Library 



Astrophysical Observatory 



Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Freer Gallery of Art 



Langley Aeronautical 



National Gallery of Art 



National Zoological Park 



Radiation and Organisms 



Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress 



Smithsonian office 



United States National Museum 



Total 



Volumes 



6,278 



Pamphlets 

 and charts 



8,191 



Total 



At the close of the fiscal year the approximate number of items in 

 the Smithsonian library system, not including the many thousands 

 of volumes still uncataloged, unbound, and uncompleted, was as 

 follows: 



Volumes 597, 461 



Pamphlets 209, 586 



Charts 26, 699 



Total 833,746 



If the exempt items referred to above were included in the count, 

 together with the collections of reprints in the sectional libraries, the 

 total would, of course, be much larger. 



C. W. A. AND OTHER SPECIAL ACTIVITIES 



The distinguishing event of the year was the appointment for a 

 few weeks of 34 C. W. A. workers to assist the library staff. These 

 employees, trained and experienced for the most part, made notable 

 progress on the projects assigned to them, which were as follows: 



(1) Arranging the duplicate and other unorganized scientific and tech- 

 nical publications, many in foreign languages, with a view to getting 

 them ready for the use of the library either in completing its sets or in 

 obtaining by exchange much needed publications from other libraries; 



(2) preserving, putting in order, and making more quickly available 

 thousands of cataloged volumes and pamphlets on the shelves, by 



