Appendix 6. 



REPORT ON THE LIBRARY. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on work 



performed for the Smithsonian Library during the fiscal year ending 



June 30, 1913 : 



ACCESSIONS. 



The accessions to the library are obtained mainly by exchange of 

 its own publications, or by gift. During the fiscal year 1913, 33,161 

 packages of publications were received as exchanges and gifts, of 

 which 29,065 packages were transmitted by mail and 4,096 through 

 the International Exchange Service. In addition to letters written 

 in acknowledgement of publications received in response to the re- 

 quests of the Institution for exchange, some 5,000 publications were 

 acknowledged on the regular printed forms. 



The following number of accessions for the Smithsonian deposit 

 in the Library of Congress were recorded during the year: 3,379 

 volumes, 1,407 parts of volumes, 5,990 pamphlets, and 450 charts; 

 total, 11,226 publications. The numbers in the accession catalogue 

 ran from 508,789 to 513,026, the parts of serial publications entered 

 on the card catalogue numbered 21,081,^ and 1,256 slips were prepared 

 for completed volumes. The various publications sent to the Library 

 of Congress as soon as received and entered filled 257 boxes and com- 

 prised 30,350 separate pieces, including parts of periodicals, pamph- 

 lets and complete volumes. Besides these, about 1,704 parts of serials 

 needed to complete sets were obtained by exchange and sent to the 

 Library of Congress separately. 



As in previous years, public documents presented to the Institution 

 were sent to the Library of Congress without being stamped or 

 recorded. Publications of this class to the number of 9,866 were 

 transmitted in this manner during the year. 



The Smithsonian Office Library and the small collections of books 

 maintained by the Astrophysical Observatory and the National Zoo- 

 logical Park received accessions amounting altogether to 573, di- 

 vided as follows: Smithsonian Office, 314 volumes, 37 parts of vol- 



1 Only a portion of these are included in the foregoing statistics of accessions, as 

 periodicals are not entered in the accession record until volumes are complete. 



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