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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1957 



SUMMARIZED STATISTICS 



ACCESSIONS 



Total 

 recorded 

 volumes, 



1957 



Smithsonian Deposit at the Library of Congress 



Smithsonian main library (including former Office and 



Museum libraries) 



Astrophysical Observatory (including Radiation and 



Organisms) 



Bureau of American Ethnology 



National Air Museum 



National Collection of Fine Arts 



National Zoological Park 



586, 700 



308, 613 



14, 945 



37, 350 



497 



14, 079 



4,217 



Total. 



966, 401 



Unbound volumes of periodicals, and reprints and separates from serial publica- 

 tions, of which there are many thousands, have not been included in these totals. 



EXCHANGES 



New exchanges arranged 



Specially requested publications received. 



87 

 485 



CATALOGING 



Volumes cataloged 4, 044 



Catalog cards filed 26, 184 



PERIODICALS 



Periodical parts entered 23, 173 



4,833 were sent to the Smithsonian Deposit. 



CIRCULATION 



Loans of books and periodicals 9, 537 



Circulation in sectional libraries is not counted except in the Division of 

 Insects. 



BINDING AND REPAIR 



Volumes sent to the bindery 11,900 



Volumes repaired in the library 321 



Respectfully submitted, 



Leila F. Clark, Librarian. 

 Dr. Leonard Carmichael, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



