﻿APPENDIX 
  10 
  

  

  KEPORT 
  ON 
  THE 
  LIBRARY 
  

  

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

   tivities 
  of 
  the 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  for 
  the 
  fiscal 
  

   year 
  ended 
  June 
  30, 
  1929 
  : 
  

  

  THE 
  LIBRARY 
  

  

  The 
  Smithsonian 
  library, 
  or, 
  speaking 
  in 
  terms 
  that 
  accord 
  more 
  

   exactly 
  with 
  the 
  recent 
  reorganization 
  of 
  the 
  library, 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   library 
  system, 
  is 
  made 
  up 
  of 
  10 
  divisional 
  and 
  36 
  sectional 
  libraries. 
  

   The 
  former 
  consist 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  deposit 
  in 
  the 
  Library 
  of 
  

   Congress, 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  main 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  Institution; 
  the 
  library 
  

   of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum; 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  office 
  

   library; 
  the 
  Langley 
  aeronautical 
  library; 
  the 
  radiation 
  and 
  

   organisms 
  library; 
  and 
  the 
  libraries 
  of 
  the 
  Astrophysical 
  Observa- 
  

   tory, 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology, 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery 
  of 
  

   Art, 
  the 
  Freer 
  Gallery 
  of 
  Art, 
  and 
  the 
  National 
  Zoological 
  Park. 
  

   The 
  sectional 
  libraries 
  are 
  the 
  immediate 
  working 
  tools 
  of 
  the 
  curators 
  

   in 
  the 
  National 
  Museum. 
  These 
  46 
  libraries 
  taken 
  together, 
  in- 
  

   cluding 
  the 
  collections 
  not 
  yet 
  catalogued, 
  comprise 
  about 
  800,000 
  

   volumes, 
  pamphlets, 
  and 
  charts. 
  Although 
  they 
  contain 
  thousands 
  

   of 
  publications 
  on 
  history, 
  philosophy, 
  literature, 
  and 
  the 
  fine 
  arts, 
  

   they 
  are 
  largely 
  scientific 
  and 
  technological 
  in 
  character, 
  among 
  them 
  

   being 
  many 
  society 
  and 
  serial 
  publications. 
  Not 
  only 
  is 
  this 
  great 
  

   collection 
  an 
  invaluable 
  instrument 
  in 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  Institution 
  

   and 
  the 
  Government, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  freely 
  available 
  both 
  to 
  scholars 
  and 
  

   to 
  the 
  public 
  generally 
  for 
  research 
  purposes. 
  

  

  The 
  composition 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  library 
  underwent 
  several 
  

   important 
  changes 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  year. 
  The 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  

   of 
  American 
  Ethnology 
  became 
  a 
  division 
  of 
  the 
  library 
  ; 
  the 
  library 
  

   of 
  radiation 
  and 
  organisms, 
  designed 
  for 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  branch 
  of 
  

   Smithsonian 
  activity, 
  was 
  organized 
  as 
  a 
  divisional 
  library; 
  and 
  the 
  

   technological 
  library 
  was 
  made 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  

   Museum. 
  

  

  THE 
  STAFF 
  

  

  Early 
  in 
  the 
  year 
  the 
  second 
  position 
  of 
  assistant 
  librarian 
  — 
  that 
  

   of 
  chief 
  of 
  the 
  accessions 
  department 
  — 
  was 
  established 
  and 
  was 
  filled 
  

  

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