APPENDIX 10 



KEPORT ON THE LIBRARY 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the activ- 

 ities of the Smithsonian libraiy for the tiscal year ended June 30, 

 1931: 



THE LIBRAKY 



The library, or library system, of the Smithsonian Institution is 

 made up of 46 separate libraries, each related in some special way to 

 the work of the Institution and of the seven Government bureaus 

 under its administrative charge. The chief of these is the Smith- 

 sonian deposit in the Library of Congress. The others are the library 

 of the United States National Museum, the Smithsonian office 

 library, the Langley aeronautical library, and the libraries of the 

 Astrophj^sical Observatory, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the 

 Division of Radiation and Organisms, the Freer Gallery of Art, 

 the National Gallery of Art, and the National Zoological Park, to- 

 gether with the 36 sectional libraries in the National Museum. These 

 collections, which number in all about 800,000 volumes, pamphlets, 

 and charts, not to mention the thousands still uncatalogued, while 

 they contain many publications on art, history, literature, philos- 

 ophy, music, and education, pertain largely to science and tech- 

 nolog3^ This important group of libraries has made available to 

 Smithsonian cm})Ioyees and to American research workers in gen- 

 eral, especially those connected with the various departments of 

 the Government, most of the leading scientific publications of the 

 world during one of its outstanding eras. Thus it has had a note- 

 worthy part in carrying out since 1846 — the year in which the Smith- 

 sonian began its activities — the will of James Smithson, the founder 

 of the Institution. 



CHANGES IN STAFF 



During the last year there were several changes in the library 

 staff. Miss Marian W. Seville was made head of the order depart- 

 ment and promoted from the rank of library assistant to that of 

 senior library assistant. Mrs. M. Landon Reed, who had served in 

 the exchange department for some time on temporary appointment, 

 was given a permanent position as clerk. Miss Margaret Moreland 

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