APPENDIX 10 



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, 

 1938: 



THE LIBRARY 



The library, or library system, of the Smithsonian comprises 45 

 libraries. Chief among these are the Smithsonian deposit in the Li- 

 brary of Congress, which is the main library of the Institution, and 

 the libraries of the United States National Museum and the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. The others are the Langley aeronautical li- 

 brary, also deposited in the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian 

 office library, the libraries of the Astrophysical Observatory, Freer 

 Gallery of Art, National Collection of Fine Arts, National Zoological 

 Park, Radiation and Organisms, and the sectional libraries, 35 in 

 number, of the National Museum. 



PERSONNEL 



Two changes occurred in the library staff. Mrs. George C. Rodgers, 

 senior stenographer, withdrew from Government service, and the po- 

 sition was reclassified to that of assistant clerk-stenographer and filled 

 by the appointment of Miss Nancy Alice Link, through transfer from 

 the Bureau of Internal Revenue. The assistant messenger, Joseph 

 A. Salat, Jr., resigned and Clyde E. Bauman was transferred to the 

 vacancy from the United States Naval Academy. The temporary 

 assistants were Mrs. Gladys S. Wilson, Miss Margaret Kober, and 17 

 employees assigned to the library by the Works Progress Administra- 

 tion. 



EXCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS 



The exchange work of the library was noteworthy. It brought to 

 the receiving room 22,800 packages by mail and 2,464 by the Inter- 

 national Exchange Service — a total of 25,264, each containing one 

 or more publications. Besides several generous sendings from the 

 United States, such as those from the American Antiquarian Society, 

 the Paleontological Institution, and the University of Washington, 

 there were many from abroad, the largest being from the Koninklijke 



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