APPENDIX 6. 



EEPORT ON THE LIBRAEY. 



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

 ties of the library of the Smithsonian Institution during the fiscal 

 year ended June 30, 1919: 



The receipts of publications during the year numbered 24,670 

 packages. Of these, 23,517 were received by mail and 1,153 through 

 the international exchanges. Five hundred and sixty-one volumes 

 were completed and 11,443 periodicals were entered. 



SMITHSONIAN LIBRARY. 



Main library. — Publications for the Smithsonian Main Library, 

 after entry on the records, are forwarded to the Library of Congress 

 for the Smithsonian deposit. The accession numbers for the year 

 extended from 529,925 to 532,002. The accessions included 1,883 

 volumes, 242 parts of volumes, 348 pamphlets, and 87 charts. 

 • The cataloguing covered 2,490 volumes and 85 charts; 1,621 vol- 

 umes were recatalogued ; 4,909 cards were typewritten, and 895 

 printed cards from the Library of Congress for publications de- 

 posited by the institution were filed in the catalogue; 5,721 public 

 documents were presented to the Library of Congress in accordance 

 with the established practice. 



The securing of publications in exchange for Smithsonian publica- 

 tions was carried on under war conditions with results that fully 

 "warranted the effort, and the completion of sets in the Smithsonian 

 deposit of the Library of Congress has been continued, with the 

 following results: 



Number of want cards received from Library of Congress : 



From Smithsonian Division ^ 86 



Prom Periodical Division 129 



From Order Division 14 



229 



INumber of publications secured for Library of Congress : 



Volume. Parts. 



Por Smithsonian Division 94 381 



For Periodical Division 6 145 



For Order Division 32 1 



132 527 

 Number of sets completed, 61. 



0-ffice reference library. — The accessions for the office library, which 

 includes the Astrophysical Observatory and the National Zoological 



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