APPENDIX 9 

 REPORT ON THE LIBRARY 



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

 activities of the Smithsonian library for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1937: 



THE LIBRARY 



The library, or library system, of the Smithsonian is made up 

 of 45 libraries, all more or less specialized and independent in their 

 nature and location, but all cooperating under the central purpose 

 of the Institution. They are the Smithsonian deposit in the Library 

 of Congress, which is the main unit of the system; the library of 

 the United States National Museum; the library of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology; the Smithsonian office library; the library 

 of the Astrophysical Observatory; the library of Radiation and 

 Organisms; the library of the Freer Gallery of Art; the library of 

 the National Collection of Fine Arts (until recently the National 

 Gallery of Art) ; the Langley aeronautical library, since 1930 on 

 special deposit in the Library of Congress ; the library of the National 

 Zoological Park; and, finally, the 35 sectional libraries of the 

 National Museum. 



PERSONNEL 



There were two changes in the permanent staff. Lucile A. Torrey, 

 senior stenographer in the office of the librarian, was appointed to 

 the newly established position of library assistant in the National 

 Collection of Fine Arts, and Mrs. George C. Rodgers was chosen 

 for the vacancy — a position she had formerly held. Carroll M. 

 Martin, assistant messenger in the National Museum library, was 

 transferred to the Social Security Board, and Joseph Salat, Jr., 

 succeeded him. 



The temporary assistants were Helen G. Rankin and Margaret 

 Kober. Fifteen workers were also assigned to the library for vari- 

 ous periods by the Works Progress Administration. 



EXCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS 



The exchange work of the year brought to the library, as usual, a 

 wealth of publications. These represented most of the 22,714 pack- 



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