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(a) labeling those without adequate location marks, (6) putting un- 

 bound pamplilets into binders and lettering them appropriately, and 

 (c) making minor repairs, such as mending torn pages and tipping in 

 loose plates; (3) classifying and indexing a large collection of valuable 

 aeronautical material; (4) cataloging several special collections of 

 scientific pamplilets; (5) preparing a dictionary catalog of the pub- 

 lications of the Smithsonian Institution and its affiliated bureaus; 

 (6) making an index of the exchange relations of the library with other 

 libraries, both American and foreign; and (7) preparing a union dic- 

 tionary catalog of the publications in the various libraries of the 

 Institution. 



Since the withdrawal of the C. W. A. employees, further progress 

 has been made on several of these projects by the regular staff, and 

 one has even been completed to date — namely, the catalog of Smith- 

 sonian publications. The completing of the rest of the projects, how- 

 ever, will probably require many years. 



Several other important pieces of work were undertaken by the 

 staff. About 34,000 scientific reprints and pamphlets — many of 

 much value — were selected from the material in the west stacks of 

 the Smithsonian Building and distributed to the curators concerned; 

 the Schoolcraft and Watkins collections were removed from the first 

 floor of the main building to the second and tliird floors, thus making 

 room for the growth of the botanical library; the organization of the 

 American duplicates and of a large part of tiie foreign was finished, 

 with the result that hundreds of important volumes and parts were 

 found that were lacldng in the standard sets, especially of the Smith- 

 sonian deposit and the library of the National Museum; nearly 17,000 

 duplicate and other unwanted publications, mainly in the techno- 

 logical library, were sorted out and transferred to various Govern- 

 ment libraries where they would be of use, particularl}'- the Library of 

 Congress and the libraries of the Department of Agriculture, Geologi- 

 cal Survey, Bureau of Mines, Office of Education, and Naval Research 

 Laboratory; many hundred Government documents not needed by 

 the library were returned to the Superintendent of Documents; about 

 1,800 dissertations, on medical and allied subjects, were sent to the 

 library of the Surgeon General ; special exchange credit on new publi- 

 cations essential to the work of the Institution was further built up 

 by sending of duplicates to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University 

 of Pennsylvania, and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods 

 Hole, and a number of valuable items received in partial return; to 

 meet a need that has become increasingly apparent in recent years in 

 connection with the detailed study of the collections, a rare book sec- 

 tion was set aside in the main hall of the Smithsonian Building where, 

 under lock and key, especially rare and valuable publications can in 

 the future be shelved; marked progress was made toward completing 



