70 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1935 



liANGLET AERONAUTICAL LIBRARY 



The Langley aeronautical library is the Institution's well-known 

 collection of aeronautical publications, which was brought together 

 in the first instance by Samuel Pierpont Langley, and later increased 

 by gifts from Alexander Graham Bell, Octave Chanute, and James 

 Means, and since by regiilar additions from the Smithsonian. In 

 1930 most of the library was sent as a special deposit to the Library 

 of Congress, where, under its own name and bookplate, it supple- 

 ments in important respects for research purposes the Government's 

 chief collection. The library has 2,009 volumes, 1,179 pamphlets, 

 and 29 charts. Among its items are many early aeronautical maga- 

 zines, as well as manuscripts, photographs, and newspaper clippings. 

 The accessions in 1935 were 31 volumes, 538 parts of volumes, and 

 51 pamphlets. In response to special requests from the division of 

 aeronautics in the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian library ob- 

 tained 78 publications needed in the Langley sets. 



NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART LIBRARY 



The library of the National Gallery of Art has no regular trained 

 attendant. The staff of the Smithsonian and Museum libraries, as- 

 sisted by several F. E. R. A. workers, however, were able to keep up 

 most of the current work of the library to continue, in a measure, 

 the task of bringing together and cataloging its collections, which 

 was begun several years before. The accessions were 316 volumes 

 and 306 pamphlets, which increased the library to 2,447 volumes and 

 2,030 pamphlets. The staff entered 1,621 periodicals, cataloged 672 

 publications, added 2,341 cards to the catalog and shelf list, prepared 

 543 cards for other files, and labeled 668 books. Of the accessions, 

 142 were obtained by special exchange correspondence. Toward the 

 close of the year, 1,935 publications were transferred to the library 

 from the section of administration in the National Museum. 



iltEER GALLERY OF ART LIBRARY 



The library of the Freer Gallery of Art received further expert 

 attention in 1935. Consequently by the close of the fiscal year the 

 dictionary catalog, which had been begun several years before, was 

 finished to date, except for a number of the Chinese and Japanese 

 items. The staff cataloged 225 publications, prepared 3,013 cards 

 for the library files, as well as 658 for the union catalog at the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and sent 19 volumes to the bindery. The 

 main collection, which numbers 5,297 volumes and 3,521 pamphlets, 

 was increased by 326 volumes, 170 parts of volumes, and 56 pam- 

 phlets; the field collection by 369 volumes, 627 parts of volumes, 103 



