APPENDIX 9 

 REPORT ON THE LIBRARY 



Sm : I have the honor to submit the following report on the activi- 

 ties of the Smithsonian library for the fiscal year ended June 30, 

 1935 : 



THE LIBRARY 



The library of the Smithsonian Institution is in reality a library 

 system, for it is composed of 45 libraries, each related to the work 

 of the Institution as a whole or to that of one of its branches. Out- 

 standing among them in point of age, size, and importance of ma- 

 terial are the Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Congress and 

 the libraries of the United States National Museum and the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology. The other members of the system are the 

 libraries of the Astrophysical Observatory, Freer Gallery of Art, 

 National Gallery of Art, National Zoological Park, the Langley 

 aeronautical library, radiation and organisms library, Smithsonian 

 office library, and the 35 highly specialized sectional libraries of the 

 National Museum. The libraries, taken together, number nearly 

 850,000 volumes, pamphlets, and charts. 



PERSONNEL 



Margaret Moreland, senior stenographer and secretary in the office 

 of the librarian, resigned to accept a position in New York. The 

 vacancy was filled by the transfer, from the examining division of 

 the Civil Service Commission, of Lucile A. Torrey, an A. B. from 

 Tulane University and a B. S. in library science from the Louisiana 

 State University, with stenographic training. 



Grace A. Parler, who since 1930 had been on temporary appoint- 

 ment as under library assistant in the Freer Gallery of Art, was 

 made a permanent member of the staff and advanced in grade. 



Bruce Middleton resigned the position of minor library assistant 

 in the Astrophysical Observatory to accept promotion in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



A temporary position of minor library assistant was established 

 in the National Zoological Park and filled for 3 months. 



The temporary employees were Clarence Athearn, Alice Elizabeth 

 Hill, Margaret Link, Grace A. Parler, and Helen Rankin. There 

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