﻿APPENDIX 
  9. 
  

   EEPOKT 
  ON 
  THE 
  LIBRARY. 
  

  

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

   ities 
  of 
  the 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  for 
  the 
  fiscal 
  

   year 
  ended 
  June 
  30, 
  1922. 
  

  

  Possessing 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  million 
  volumes, 
  pamphlets, 
  manuscripts, 
  

   and 
  charts, 
  acquired 
  chiefly 
  in 
  exchange, 
  the 
  library 
  has 
  continued 
  

   its 
  steady, 
  ever-increasing 
  growth. 
  There 
  are 
  now, 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  

   records, 
  888,128 
  publications 
  deposited 
  at 
  the 
  Library 
  of 
  Congress 
  

   and 
  156,275 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum. 
  Books 
  

   belonging 
  to 
  other 
  branches 
  of 
  the 
  Institution 
  have 
  been 
  estimated 
  at 
  

   35,000. 
  

  

  Its 
  volumes 
  are 
  being 
  constantly 
  borrowed 
  and 
  consulted 
  within 
  

   the 
  buildings. 
  Interlibrary 
  loans 
  to 
  accredited 
  libraries, 
  where 
  

   distance 
  permits, 
  are 
  being 
  continued, 
  and 
  in 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  instances 
  

   arrangements 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  for 
  the 
  photostating 
  of 
  pages 
  from 
  

   rare 
  volumes 
  not 
  permitted 
  to 
  leave 
  the 
  buildings. 
  

  

  Each 
  day 
  typewritten 
  lists 
  of 
  original 
  scientific 
  articles 
  appearing 
  

   in 
  periodicals 
  received 
  for 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  deposit 
  in 
  the 
  Library 
  

   of 
  Congress 
  are 
  prepared 
  and 
  sent 
  to 
  heads 
  of 
  scientific 
  bureaus 
  

   under 
  the 
  Institution 
  for 
  their 
  information 
  and 
  for 
  circulation. 
  

   These 
  daily 
  bibliographical 
  lists, 
  begun 
  last 
  November 
  at 
  the 
  re- 
  

   quest 
  of 
  the 
  secretary, 
  Dr. 
  Charles 
  D. 
  Walcott, 
  have 
  been 
  well 
  re- 
  

   ceived 
  from 
  the 
  start. 
  Requests 
  from 
  other 
  Government 
  bureaus 
  

   and 
  research 
  organizations 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  for 
  copies, 
  which 
  it 
  has 
  

   not 
  been 
  possible 
  to 
  supply. 
  

  

  The 
  facilities 
  of 
  the 
  library 
  have 
  been 
  taxed 
  to 
  the 
  utmost 
  since 
  

   the 
  beginning 
  of 
  the 
  war 
  for 
  information 
  on 
  various 
  technical 
  sub- 
  

   jects. 
  Especially 
  has 
  this 
  been 
  so 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  aeronautics. 
  

   In 
  this 
  one 
  subject 
  alone 
  it 
  is 
  safe 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  the 
  Institution, 
  as 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  sources, 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  means 
  of 
  saving 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

   Government 
  many 
  thousands 
  of 
  dollars 
  which 
  would 
  have 
  had 
  to 
  

   be 
  paid 
  if 
  the 
  information 
  relating 
  to 
  the 
  prior 
  art 
  had 
  not 
  been 
  

   analyzed 
  and 
  available. 
  

  

  SMITHSONIAN 
  MAIN 
  LIBRARY. 
  

  

  As 
  most 
  noteworthy 
  among 
  the 
  accessions 
  of 
  the 
  main 
  library 
  

   might 
  be 
  mentioned 
  copies 
  of 
  the 
  Gbttingische 
  Gelehrte 
  Anzeigen 
  

   for 
  1758, 
  1760, 
  1808, 
  1813, 
  and 
  1814, 
  the 
  gift 
  of 
  the 
  Gesellschaft 
  fur 
  

  

  1.13 
  

  

  