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SMITHSONIANINSTITUTION LIBRARIES2003 annual report
DIRECTOR’SMESSAGEFifteen years of proposing, planning, funding, and constructing came togetheron October 12, 2002, to start o the new year with a bang! The gala openingof the new Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, just 12 days intothe new fiscal year, pushed our moods into the stratosphere. As I said thatnight, “the Smithsonian means many things to many people, but when they come tovisit—or you ask them what is in the Smithsonian—most often they will refer to thegreat and wonderful objects that are symbols of our national heritage and identity,such as the Hope Diamond, the Spirit of St. Louis, the First Ladies’ gowns . . . . Tonightwe celebrate something that is equal in value to any one of the great national treasures of the Smithsonian—the book. Books and the people who manage them and provide access to them—the Libraries’ sta —are integral to the fabric of the Smithsonian, just as they are integral to the fabric of intellect, the interpretation of the past,and progress in the future.”This is still the case in today’s electronic world, proud as we are of the many o erings of our Galaxy of Knowledge website. I am particularly pleased with the new category of o erings called . Members of the Libraries sta create small online exhibitions of some facet of SIL’s collections, a “teaser,” if you like, of the richnessthat awaits those with curiosity. The variety is clear from the subjects chosen in 2003:contemporary African art, caricatures and cartoons, 19th-century homemaking, andthe history of zoos. Galaxy o erings are one indicator of change. In our online catalog in , many of the 720,232 catalog records link to electronic versions of booksor journals. Of course, the marriage of print and electronic is a tremendous boon forscholars. But new scholarship in most fields still appears primarily on paper. cherishes both, and so do many of our supporters. I wish to acknowledge especially the Smithsonian National Board, which awarded 75,000 to create a full inventory of our 300,000-piece archive of historical business and trade catalogs. This information will allow us to make this national treasure more accessible to users and todecide how best to digitize and preserve it. We are grateful.— Nancy E. GwinnNotable Acquisitions¶THE OCTOBER 2002 OPENING OF THEJOSEPH F. CULLMAN 3RD LIBRARY OF NATURALHISTORY stimulated several notable acquisitions in natural history. Mr. Cullman also tookhis favorite Roger Tory Peterson painting tothe to hang in “his” library.¶ THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ENDOWMENTenabled us to purchase F.J.F. Meyen’s 2-volumework um di Erde . in den Jahren 1830, 1831, und1832 to add to our voyage and expedition holdings. Serving as the medical doctor and naturalist on a circumnavigation by the Prussiannavy, Meyen describes all the regions visited,especially South America and China.¶ THE ALICE E. KENNINGTON BOOK FUNDmade possible the purchase of the beautifullyillustrated Les papillons, leur histoire, la manièrede leur faire la chasse et de les conserver by EugeneA. Balland (1823) with specific procedures forcollecting and preserving butterfly specimensin the early 1800s.¶ COLLECTOR RUSSELL TRAIN gave the Libraries a preview of his collection on Africanexploration with a donation of six volumes,including a superb presentation copy inscribedby David Livingstone of his Missionary Travelsand Researches in South Africa (1857), as well assketches, a map, and photographs of explorerHenry Bailey’s travels through the CongoFree State in 1884–88.¶THE ANACOSTIA MUSEUM AND NATIONALbenefited from a bequest of 250 volumes on Africansand African Americans from the estate ofLouise E. Je erson, author of The DecorativeArts of Africa (1973).MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART LIBRARIESAbove: Among the important 18th-centuryworks on steam engines, inland navigation,and mathematics obtained by the DibnerLibrary of the History of Science and Technology was Charles Leadbetter’s A Treatiseof Eclipses of the Sun and Moon. In this work,Leadbetter, who gained fame for his accurate prediction of the 1715 total solareclipse, covered 35 years of eclipses.
MANAGEMENTEXCELLENCEAmerican History, National Museum ofthe American Indian, National PortraitGallery, Anacostia Museum & Centerfor African American History and Culture, National Postal Museum, and theNational Air & Space Museum.Vice Chair of the Professional Committee and member of the GoverningBoard, as well as Chair of the StandingCommittee on Preservation and Conservation and Chair of the Publications Committee.¶¶RESPONDING TO ISSUES RAISED IN THE reviewed all training received by supervisors to date and launched a program to increase and refreshsupervisors’ skills over thenext three years. All newsupervisors are required totake a core course in management and all supervisors will receive training inemployee development.2001 EMPLOYEE PERSPECTIVE SURVEY,¶FOLLOWING UP ON THE RESULTS OF THEtaken last spring, theLibraries set up focus groups of Smithsonian curators with specialties in thesciences, art, museum studies, and history to help improve the design ofthe “Tools for the Researcher” page of ’s Galaxy of Knowledge website. Thenew page (www.sil.si.edu/research/)has been enthusiastically received.¶ LIBRARIES DIRECTOR NANCY GWINN andher executive team met with severalSmithsonian curatorial groups in opendiscussions to present services andactivities and to hear curators’ issuesand concerns. Meetings were held at theHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum, National Museum ofLIBQUAL SURVEY¶IN SEPTEMBER 2003, VIELKARUTH SCHALLERT, BOTANY LIBRARIAN(inset), received double honors in 2003.Botanist C.M. Burton named Hoyaschallertia in her honor becauseher help in providing researchmaterial “was far beyond thecall of duty.” She also received the Charles RobertLong Award of Extraordinary Merit from theCouncil on Botanical andHorticultural Libraries inJune. (photo: Barbara Insidioso)¶CHANG-YAU, LIBRARIAN, SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE,was elected Vice-President of the Association for Agricultural Librarians, Documentalists and Information Specialists.¶ IN AUGUST 2003, NANCY E. GWINN waselected to several o ces in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ( ), includingSIL AND THE DEPARTMENT OFBOTANY, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURALcelebrated the opening of theexpanded Botany & Horticulture Library on July 17 and welcomed Horticulture sta researchers. The expansionfollowed the closure of the HorticultureLibrary in 2002 and the move of its collection to the Natural History Building.HISTORY,Journal Volumes/Issues Easier to Find¶THE FREER GALLERY OF ART/ARTHUR M.received Nihon BiojutsuinHyakunshi (100-Year History of the Japanese ArtInstitute), an 18-volume set on the history ofpainting exhibitions organized by the institute. As part of the bequest to the Arthur M.Sackler Gallery of Robert O. Muller’s collection of Japanese prints, the Library received92 monographs from the Meiji period(1868–1912).SACKLER LIBRARY¶THE NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUMreceived thousands of volumes fromthe Federal Aviation Administration Library.The Library is now the single greatestresource on the development of civil aviationin the U.S.LIBRARY¶FUNDS FROM THE SMITHSONIAN’S LATINOenabled a subscription to HAPI ONLINE:The Hispanic American Periodicals Index.POOLJournals and periodicals contain the latest findings of historical research,emerging results, recent scientific reports, detailed field notes, and newsitems in every discipline. Two important SIL projects are allowing researchersto find out exact information about what volumes and issues of journals areavailable in SIL collections through the Libraries online catalog in SIRIS. This willsave substantial time for both researchers and library sta , who might otherwisemake fruitless visits to the stacks or wait for library colleagues to check manualrecords.Begun several years ago, in the Serials Holdings Project, library sta createdrecords for each volume of the backfile of a journal. By the close of fiscal year2003, 77,750 volume/issue records were available in SIRIS, covering completeholdings for 3,031 journals. In a new initiative in fiscal year 2003, the Librariesbegan to convert Serials Check-in Records from cards to online form in SIRIS.Funded by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Information System pool,1,400 records for the main Natural History Library have been converted thus far.Now, for example, a quick check of SIRIS will immediately tell a researcher at theSmithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., if SIL’s Botanyand Horticulture Library has received the latest issue of Carnivorous PlantNewsletter.
PUBLICOUTREACHBelow: Mr. Joseph F. Cullman 3rd and LeslieOverstreet, Curator of Natural HistoryRare Books and manager of the CullmanLibrary.Below right: Guests at the opening reception for the Cullman Library gather in thereading room and tour the new facilities.(photo: Elizabeth Periale)GRAND OPENING GALA FOR JOSEPH F. CULLMAN 3RD LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY:The fiscal year began auspiciously on October 12 with the gala openingof the first rare book library in the National Museum of Natural History, the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History. Mr. & Mrs.Cullman and their friends and family joined 175 well-wishers to see the lovely reading room and state-of-the-art, secure, environmentally controlled vault. This new facility allows the Libraries to merge over 10,000 volumes from twelve separate librarylocations into a centralized collection that is convenient to researchers. Leslie Overstreet, Curator of Natural History Rare Books, along with assistant Daria Wingreen,continued to move and organize collections while opening the reading room for useby researchers and many visitors. The 345 researchers who used the collections in2003 included curators, research sta , and fellows from the Smithsonian, as well asfrom Japan, New Zealand, Canada, Scotland, Mexico, and many other museums andgovernment agencies.OTHER HIGHLIGHTS¶ began to establish a baseline count for visitors to its Exhibition Gallery in theNational Museum of American History in August, when a study determined that therewere approximately 1300 visitors, averaging 61 visitors per hour. ¶ became a Reading Promotion Partner of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. ThePartners consist of more than 90 civic, educational, and professional organizations.Public Programs¶THE 4TH ANNUAL BAIRD SOCIETY BENEFAC-The Libraries and the NationalAir & Space Museum cosponsored the 4thAnnual Baird Society Benefactors Dinner onWednesday, March 26, 2003, featuringPulitzer Prize-winning author, A. Scott Berg.140 guests dined in the Milestones of FlightHall beneath Lindbergh’s plane, the Spirit ofSt. Louis. Berg supplemented his delightfulaccount with film clips of the famous transatlantic flight and episodes from the Lindberghs’ lives. The Libraries, with the NationalMuseum of American History, cohosted Bergin a free public lecture. Berg mesmerized theTORS DINNERcrowd with an account of his life as a biographer of Maxwell Perkins, Samuel Goldwyn,Jr., Charles Lindbergh, and Woodrow Wilson.¶TECHNICA CURIOSA: ENGINEERING ANDDibnerLibrary Lecture by Anthony Grafton, Princeton University Professor, Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History.October 15, 2002.MAGIC IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE,¶SILENT FRIENDS: BOOKS AND READING ONLecture by Drs. Davidand Deirdre Stam, National Museum of Natural History. May 9, 2003.POLAR EXPEDITIONS.A. Scott Berg and Libraries Director Nancy E.Gwinn. (photo: Ninette Dean)
Exhibitions¶ AN ODYSSEY IN PRINT: ADVENTURES INSIL Exhibition Gallery, National Museum of AmericanHistory. Libraries sta substituted new volumes in this exhibition in January and July.¶ The theme of the Libraries’ NationalMuseum of Natural History lobby case,installed in October 2003, is the SMITH-THE SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES,Top row, from left: SusanFernsebner, Dr. KathleenCurran, Dr. James Day.Far left: Dr. Gildo MagalhãesDos Santos.Left: Dr. Michael Schiffer(photos: Ronald Brashear)SONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES IN THEThe inaugural exhibit featured illustrations of pheasants ina volume by Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835–1915).¶ EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE, National Airand Space Museum. This permanent exhibition, showcases some of the mostsignificant observational tools astronomers have devised over the past fourcenturies. The exhibition features rarebooks from the Dibner Library of theHistory of Science and Technology. Rotating every six months to meet conservation requirements, the first two bookswere the 1602 work by Tycho Brahe calledAstronomiae instauratae mechanica (Instruments for a Restored Astronomy) and JohannBayer’s 1655 Uranometria (Celestrial Atlas).SERVICE OF SCIENCE.¶ SIL BOOKS AND IMAGES ON THE ROAD.Books, illustrations, and images on diverse subjects from collections werefeatured in exhibitions in nine museumsin 2003. These included the NationalMuseum of American History; CooperHewitt National Design Museum, NYC;Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art,Logan, Ut.; Smithsonian American ArtMuseum/Renwick Gallery; The vonLiebig Art Center, Naples, Fl.; NationalMuseum of African Art ; Schiele Museum, Gaston N.C.; Jewish Museum ofBerlin ; and, the U.S. Botanical Garden,Heirloom Garden.¶ CELEBRITY CARICATURES, LibrariesHall. In May, SIL opened its first spotlightexhibition in its hall in the National Museum of Natural History. Curated by Cecilia Chin, Librarian of the SmithsonianAmerican Art Museum/National PortraitGallery Library, “Celebrity Caricatures”features caricature and cartoon books collected in the late 1990s.Spencer Baird Society Resident Scholars 2003¶ SUSAN FERNSEBNER, PH.D. candidate in Modern Chinese History at the University ofCalifornia, San Diego. Susan’s dissertation topic was “Material Modernities: China’sParticipation in World’s Fairs and Expositions, 1876–1955.” She received her M.A. inEast Asian Studies from Stanford University in 1993 and was a Visiting Scholar at theShanghai Academy of Social Sciences, People’s Republic of China, for the 1999–2000academic year.¶ DR. KATHLEEN CURRAN, Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. Dr. Curran received her Ph.D. in 1986 in art history from the Universityof Delaware. Her research topic was “American World’s Fairs and the Taxonomy ofDisplay,” focusing on the changing nature of the terms “mechanical arts” and “industrial arts” and their relationship to the fine arts and liberal arts.Dibner Library Resident Scholars 2003¶ DR. JAMES DAY, Associate Professor of Physics in the Division of Natural Sciences atTransylvania University, Lexington, Ky. Also serving as Curator of the Moosnick Science Museum at Transylvania, a large collection of scientific and medical nineteenthcentury teaching apparatus, Dr. Day used the Dibner Library collections to researchthe museum’s scientific instruments.¶ DR. GILDO MAGALHÃES DOS SANTOS, Professor of History of Science and Technologyin the History Department of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research project was “Electromagnetism and Natural Philosophy in the Early Nineteenth-Century.”The Dibner Library’s works on electricity, including a number of titles and manuscripts by Ampère, Arago, Fresnel, Gauss, Kirchho , Ørsted, and many others, provided a fertile ground for Dr. Santos’ research.¶ DR. MICHAEL SCHIFFER, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratoryof Traditional Technology at the University of Arizona. Dr. Schi er’s research project was titled “Electrical Science from Volta to Edison.” He utilized works in the Dibner collection by authors such as Ampère, Davy, Ørsted, Faraday, Arago, Biot, de laRive, and Maxwell to look at the changing application of electrical technology afterthe advent of Volta’s battery and Ørsted’s discovery of electromagnetism.
GALAXY OFKNOWLEDGE2Averageuser hits per month on the Libraries website were 2.7 million and averagevisitor sessions numbered 105,000. Visitor time spent was around 12 minutesper session. The chart below shows the growth of Galaxy of Knowledge hitsand user sessions since 1999. ¶ TWO DIGITAL COLLECTIONS SUPPORT HISTORY OF SCIENCEAND TECHNOLOGY Historians have found much useful information in two large digitalcollections added to ’s Galaxy of Knowledge website. Funded by the Gladys KriebleDelmas Foundation, “Instruments for Science, 1800–1914: Scientific Trade Catalogs inSmithsonian Collections” includes 5,000 images of catalogs, primarily from Europeanmanufacturers but used by American schools and laboratories and thus representingAmerican patterns of consumption. “Scientific Identity: Portraits from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology” showcases a valuable collection of1,008 portraits of scientists from ancient to modern times that were collected by BernDibner. The collection includes woodcuts, copper and steel engravings, mezzotints,lithographs, oil paintings, and photographs. The Research Libraries Group providedfunds for production of this digital collection.003 WAS A GREAT YEAR FOR INCREASED USE OF THE LIBRARIES WEBSITE.TOTAL HITS1999USER SESSIONS4,827,1602000487,28212,462,9582001Above: Thomas Cross, fl. 1632–82. Detailfrom Engraving of Astrologer John Gadbury(1627–1704), from “Scientific Identity: Portraits from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology,” Galaxy ofKnowledge.Right: Charles Dana Gibson, Drawings(detail), 1894, from “Drawing from Life:Caricatures and Cartoons from the American Art/Portrait Gallery Collection byKent Boese,” Galaxy of 007,400200334,850,3161,325,606Digital Collections¶THE HOUSE PAINTER, OR, DECORATOR’Sby William Mullingar Higgins(1841). A splendid example of the kind oftrade manual that serves as a primary document in the history of technology, manufacturing, culture, and aesthetic styles. ns/COMPANIONOnline Exhibitions¶AN ODYSSEY IN PRINT: ADVENTURES INAdditions to thethird rotation of the exhibit were made to thewebsite. www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/Odyssey/¶ CELEBRITY CARICATURE features someof the materials from the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait GalleryLibrary. www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/Celeb/SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES.
S On DisplayFINANCIAL¶ ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN ARTISTS , by JanetStanley includes images from more than 2,000files on contemporary African artists, a resource unique to the Smithsonian’s NationalMuseum of African Art, Warren M. RobbinsLibrary. �DRAWING FROM LIFE: CARICATURES ANDCARTOONS FROM THE AMERICAN ART / POR-by Kent Boese.www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/caricatures/TRAIT GALLERY COLLECTION,¶MAKING OF A HOMEMAKER BY ERINFeatures books that guided the19th-century housewife. www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/making-homemaker/¶ ZOOS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, byAlvin Hutchinson. A collection of pamphletsand guide books published by zoos over thepast century in the National Zoological ParkLibrary. www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/zoos/CLEMENTS.Other Links¶ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN ARTISTS: LIST OFVERTICAL FILES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OFwww.sil.si.edu/silpublications/africanart/ - -List-2003– 08.pdfAFRICAN ART LIBRARY¶BIBLIOGRAPHIES FROM THE NATIONALMUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY htm¶LIST OF AUDIO TAPES: HIRSHHORNMUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN iotapes.htm¶LIST OF FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES:HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN LIBRARY www.sil.si.edu/silpublications/hmsg/ video2003.pdf¶PHOTO COLLECTION INVENTORY:With the help of the Smithsonian Libraries Board, the Librariesachieved a milestone this year. Cumulative gifts and pledges to theLibraries’ Partners in Discovery capital campaign reached 5.5 million,or 27.5% of the campaign’s 20 million goal. ¶ In 2003 1.4 millioncame primarily from individuals. These funds support a variety of the Libraries’ priorities, including acquisitions, preservation, and digital projects. ¶ A handsome giftfrom Joseph F. Cullman 3rd will help the Libraries acquire the Russell E. Train Collection of Africana. ¶ Over 164,000 was raised from competitive internal Smithsonian Institution funds, which target necessary equipment purchases and cataloging projects.ENDOWMENTSDONORSJean Axelrod Endowment (general acquisitions, funded byShelby Shapiro)* 100,000 or moreMr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Cullman 3rd 25,000- 99,999David & Frances Dibner,The Dibner FundBrian J. & Darlene HeidtkeMargery & Edgar MasinterShelby Shapiro 10,000– 24,999Altria Group, Inc.Judith & Charles M. Moore, Jr.Frank J. & Betty QuirkRuth L. Webb 5,000– 9,999Robert D. & Juliane K. BaileyJay W. & Linda FreedmanJohn L. & Hope L. FurthNancy E. Gwinn & John Y. ColeJames M. Kemper, Jr.Susan MoseleyRosemary L. Ripley 2,000– 4,999C. Michael Gooden &Diane Oksanen-GoodenElizabeth W. GwinnThe Larry A. Hart TrustGeorge Gwynn & Christine HillRobert E. & Elizabeth KruegerMr. & Mrs. James F. MrazekDonald & Patricia OresmanRuth O. SeligR. Julian & Margaret A. StanleyTrustAllan & Kim StypeckF. Christian & Betty ThompsonMr. & Mrs. Anton R. Valukas 1,000– 1,999Atwater-Kent Foundation, Inc.Frederick M. BayerBlair & Cheryl E ronEric P. & Harriet FraunfelterGail M. GarlickDavid S. & Pat JerniganMr. & Mrs. M. Anthony MayORC MacroMr. & Mrs. David ParryAlbert H. & Shirley SmallJ. Thomas & Lee TouchtonBailey Family Endowment (general Libraries)*Cooper Hewitt, National DesignMuseum Acquisitions Fund(Margery and Edgar Masinter)**Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Endowment for the Natural HistoryRare Book Library**Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Endowment for the Preservation ofNatural History Rare BooksC. Michael Gooden and DianeOksanen-Gooden Endowment(general Libraries)*Nancy E. Gwinn and John Y.Cole Endowment (intern program)*Brian J. and Darlene HeidtkePreservation Endowment*Alice Kennington Rare BookFundThe Margery and Edgar MasinterFund for the Acquisition andPreservation of Illustrated BooksFrank J. and Betty M. Quirk Libraries Endowment**HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GAR-S. Dillon Ripley Library Endowment**www.sil.si.edu/silpublications/hmsg/ photoinventory 2003.pdfSmithsonian Institution LibrariesEndowment Fund for Serials Acquisition and Preservation**¶Smithsonian Institution LibrariesGeneral Support EndowmentDEN LIBRARYTRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY: icslavery.htmBIBLIOGRAPHYSmithsonian Institution LibrariesSpecial Collections EndowmentLloyd and Charlotte WinelandLibrary Endowment for NativeAmerican and Western Exploration Literature*New endowments for 2003**Additions made in 2003 500– 999Elizabeth C. DahlinRichard M. & Peggy DanzigerCary J. FriezeJohn F. JamesonAlan R. KabatWoody & Sherry KelleyBrian H. MasonBarbara G. PetersEugene B. & Lynne RobertsJoseph R. SalcettiSotheby's Inc.Janet StanleyMary Augusta & George ThomasUnder 500Bull Run Metal Fabricators &EngineersMary Lou CowdenMarsha R. HowarthRichard H. HowlandMoya KingMalcolm N. KnappBetty Jane MillerCarol C. PriceErle J. RappaportMr. & Mrs. Malcolm P. RipleyDorothy RosenbergRenata RutledgeRussell ShankStanwyn & Elaine ShetlerJoan TalbertBeatrice E. & Norman TaylorKenneth TrappMarjorie WebsterLibraries BoardRosemary Livingston Ripley,ChairJuliane K. BaileyJay W. FreedmanHope L. FurthC. Michael GoodenBrian J. HeidtkeJohn B. HenryGeorge Gwynn HillMargery F. MasinterJudith MooreFrank J. QuirkBeatrice E. Taylor
THE LIBRARIES IN 2003PERSONNELPromotedEliza Gilligan, Preservation ServicesJoinedLynne Altstatt, LibraryKaren Brown, African Art LibraryErin Clements, New Media O ceJennifer Cohlman, Cooper-Hewitt LibraryJesse Foley, / LibraryEric French, Preservation ServicesRobert Kearns, Director’s O ceMelinda White, LibraryMary Ann Wilson, LibraryMovedSusan Frampton, to Director’s O ceEric French, to Museum StudiesReference LibraryMichael Hardy, to AnnexBarbara Insidioso, to Preservation ServicesGeo rey Rinard, to Catalog ManagementRetiredLarry Baukin, LibraryNick Schliapin, Catalog ManagementBob Skarr, LibraryDavid Thompson, African Art LibraryGladys Tutt, AnnexTad Walendowski, Catalog ManagementNo longer at SILCharlotte Mosenthal, Cooper-Hewitt LibraryMarianne Petrino-Schaad, Museum StudiesReference LibrarySavannah Schroll, Director’s O 96,693720,232GALAXY OF Penalty for Private use 300Images of collections added to websiteTotal collection imagesINFORMATION SERVICE45,57217,604Washington, DC 20013-7012Branch LibrariesNumber of sta Volumes added to collection(down 7%)Total volumes heldMicrofilm &-fiche itemsJournal subscriptions (includes3,438 gifts)Titles catalogedBook orders placedGift volumes selected for collectionVolumes bound or boxedCatalog records in SIRISReference questions answered(up 61%)Library materials consulted on-siteCirculation transactions (itemschecked in or out or renewed)First-time borrows of itemsNon-Smithsonian Libraries users(new statistic)Interlibrary loans of books andarticlesBooks and articles borrowed for SIAbove: Biologia centrali-americana, edited by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin. London,1879–1915.Cover: Walter Rothschild. The Avifauna of Laysanand the neighbouring islands with a complete history todate of the birds of the Hawaiian possession, (detail).London: R.H. Porter, 1893–1900.Presorted StandardU.S. PostagePA I DWashington, DCPermit No. G94
Henry Bailey’s travels through the Congo Free State in 1884–88. ¶ THE ANACOSTIA MUSEUM AND NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART LIBRARIES benefi-ted from a bequest of250 volumes on Africans and African Americans from the estate of Louise E. Je erson, author ofThe Decorative Arts of
