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Special Collections

Czech Collection

World’s Fairs Collection

To complement the Libraries’ distinguished
collection, of more than 2,000 world's fairs
guidebooks, pamphlets, government
reports, photograph albums, and other
books and doctiments, Cathy Serafica
updated the 1994 published bibliography
on world's fairs and international exposi-
tions. In addition, Ms. Serafica, a UCLA
library school student, added annotated
references to a number of Internet sites,-
online databases.and bibliographic
catalogs while serving an internship
supervised by Rhoda Ratner at the
National Museum of American History
Branch Library. Ms. Serafica commented,
"With the world wide web and the Internet
playing such prominent roles in research
and the exchange of information in today's
world, there was a need to enlarge the
bibliography to include Internet web sites
that focus specifically on world's fairs. The
updated version includes non-English-
language materials."

International Interns and
Visiting Librarians _

Librarians from Poland, Kenya, Australia,
and Italy came to the Libraries this year to
receive specialized training or to conduct
studies. In previous years, the Libraries has
welcomed librarians from Malaysia, -
France, Bolivia, and many other countries:

Cathy Serafica and Christine Winkler,
interns at the National Museum of
American History Branch Library

Ashah Owano, Head Librarian from the
National Museums of Kenya, participated
in Libraries’ operations in the National
Museum of Natural History Branch
Library and observed cataloging,

* acquisitions, and systems activities in those

departments.

Christine Winkler, a graduate student at
the University of Giessen, Germany,
inventoried over 800 pieces of sewing
machine trade literature in the National
Museum of American History Branch
Library and other Smithsonian collections
under the direction of Suzanne Pilsk and
Martin Kalfatovic during an internship
with the Libraries.

Agnieska B. Koszowska, Librarian of the
Biblioteka Slaska, Katowice, Poland,
received training with Lucien Rossignol
and staff of the Acquisitions Services
Department during her Soros Foundation
fellowship with the Library of Congress.

Janin Hadlaw, a Smithsonian Fellow from
University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Canada, reviewed communications
materials, and Camilla Arcangioli,.a
librarian from Rome, Italy, worked in the .
archive collections at the Cooper Hewitt,
National Design Museum Branch working
with Stephen Van Dyk, Branch Librarian.

Roxanne Missingham, National Library of

Australia, arranged a study visit with the
help of Ann Juneau, Natural and Physical
Sciences Deparment head, to include the
Smithsonian Libraries as part of her project
to.identify the best practices in the delivery
of digital materials to the desktops of
scientists.

’ Visitors this year came from‘the
* Intérnational Centre for the Study of the
~ Preservation and Restoration of Cultural

Property, and museums, universities, and
professional associations in twenty-four
countries.

+++

The Cooper-Hewitt,
National Design Museum
Branch received a splen-
did gift of approximately
100 beautifully designed
books and book covers
principally published in
Czechoslovakia and
Germany in the 1920s and
1930s, thanks to the
generosity of Emma L.
Dana and James H. Fraser.
Also donated were rare
back issues of RED,
published in Prague, 1927-
1930, and associated
scholarly materials.

Nejmensi dim (The Smallest
louse). Edited by Old Fich
Stary and Ladislav Sutnar,
Prague, 1931

The donation signif-
icantly strengthens the
Library’s resources in
early 20% century Eastern
European graphic design,
a period of intense poli-

~ tical and social unrest and

an area of increasing re- ,
search interest. In addi-
tion to their scholarly
value, many of the book
covers and periodicals are
of very high aesthetic
caliber, making them

desirable for exhibitions.

Gwen Leighty
Development Officer



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Calendar

Smithsonian Institution Libraries Exhibition Gallery
National Museum of American History, first floor, west wing
10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. daily (except December 25)

Through January 5, 2001 “Make the Dirt Fly!” Building the Panama Canal
William Worthington and Jeffrey Stine, Guest Curators

Online Exhibitions

. Visit at wwwsil.si.edu/Exhibitions
On view now “Make the Dirt Fly!” Building the Panama Canal

From Smithson to Smithsonian: The Birth of an Institution
Science and the Artist’s Book :

A Spencer Baird Society Event

March 27, 2000 At the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City
. “Design Between the Wars: Czech Avant-Garde Books, 1920-1939”

Lecture
May 2, 2000 The 2000 Dibner Library Lecture
“Extraterrestrial Life and Our World View at the Turn of the Millennium”
by Steven J. Dick, Historian of Science, U.S. Naval. Observatory
Reception Suite, National Museum of American History, at 4:00 pm
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Baird Society

‘Development Watch

The Spencer Baird Society,
the Libraries’ premiere
annual giving and donor
recognition society, was
officially launched in July,
and the Society now
recognizes 64 members.
Charter Members have
provided unrestricted’
support, funds for acquisi-
tions in specific library *
branches, additions to
existing Libraries’ endow-
ments, and support for
special projects. Several
planned-gift donors and
donors of significant book
collections have also
joined. Many Baird
Society members attended
a tour of the Libraries’
newest branch at the
Cultural Resources Center,
National Museum of the
American Indian, and a
“meet the curators”
preview of the Libraries’
exhibition, Make the Dirt
Fly! Building the Panama
Canal. .

For the list of Spencer
Baird Society Charter
Members, see FY 1999 report
in this newsletter.

From left, Tom Garnett with Spencer Baird Society Charter
Members John B. Henry; Ann Crittenden, and Elizabeth T.
Sanders at the exhibition preview, held in the Dibner

nce of History and Technology

Library of the

Completion of Getty-Funded African Art Project.

In 1999, the Libraries completed a multi:
year project funded by the Getty Grant

. Program, creating approximately 25,000

online bibliographic records relating to the
literature of African art and culture.
National Museum of African Art Branch
Librarian Janet Stanley, author of the
bibliographic index and principal

‘investigator for the grant, began to. compile

the information in 1979 and she will
continue adding records as new literature
on African art is published. Beginning in
1996, the Libraries has made the African
art bibliographic index available online in
the Libraries’ catalog. Since that time,
public inquiries to the branch library for
reference questions and interlibrary loan
requests have more than tripled. This
escalation illustrates graphically the ability
of the Libraries to reach an increasingly
wider audience — nationwide and
worldwide — though its online
information services.

One of the index’s most important
features is the African Art and Culture
Thesaurus. Developed by Ms. Stanley in
close collaboration with Libraries’ :
catalogers and National Museum of
African Art curators, the thesaurus consists
of fully documented and precise terms for
African artists’ names, institutions, artifact *
types, archaeological sites, and related
subjects. The Libraries recently purchased

. computer software
(Lexico) designed to
make the African Art
and Culture
Thesaurus available
in searchable form
on the world wide
web. The software
program displays
broad, narrow, and
related-term
relationships. When
the conversion to
Lexico is completed,
Internet users around
the world, including

Janet Stanley and Lillian Vaughn, volunteer, in the
National Museum of African Art Branch Library

collectors, scholars, and members of the -
public, will be able to navigate within this
large, subject-specific thesaurus and gain
an overview of the entire discipline of
African art and culture.

The African Art and Culture Thesaurus
project provides the basis for a long-term
collaboration with the National Museum of
African Art. The goal is to link the the-
saurus with the three separate databases,
the Libraries’ bibliographic index and two
databases from the National Museum of
African_Art, one of museum objects anda
second of the museum’s Eliot Elisofon
Photographic Archives. Once the two
museum databases have been further
developed and all three have been linked
and brotight together in ‘the searchable
thesaurus format, students, experts, and
laymen will be able to search across all
three databases from any desktop
computer.

Ms. Stanley, through her work on the
African Art index, has contributed
hundreds of new subject terms relating to
African art and culture to the Getty
Research Institute’s Art‘and Architecture
Thesaurus. Under her guidance, the
Libraries has also proposed over 100.new
African-art-related subject headings to the
Library of Congress which are used in
library cataloging worldwide.

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Featuring...

Panama Canal Exhibition Opens

Mario Ascencio was
awarded a post-graduate
residency in Library and
Information Sciences
funded by the .
Smithsonian Center for
Latino Initiatives to serve
as Librarian for Latino
Research. Mr. Ascencio
received an M.L.LS, from
UCLA, and a B.A. from
California State
University, Northridge.
As co-president of the

American Library Assoc-
iation Student Chapter at
UCLA, Mr. Ascencio
served as the liaison
between the Department
of Information Studies
and. REFORMA, the

_ National Association to
Promote Library Services
to the Spanish Speaking.
He has completed intern-
ships at New York's
Metropolitan Museum of
Art and the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art,
and worked at the Getty
Research Institute for the
History of Art. and the
Humanities.

To develop Libraries’
materials related to Latino
studies, he will review
collection development
practices and interview
researchers on Latino-
related issues. Rhoda
Ratner, History, Tech-
nology and Art
Department head, is
supervising Mr. Ascencio.

For the National
Museum of American
History Branch, Mr.
Ascencio has created and
distributed lists. of new
Latino-related holdings,
and he is evaluating
academic liriks that

pertain to Latino issues for ~

possible addition to the
Libraries’ Home Page.

The major engineer-
ing project that led
to the opening of the
Panama-Canal in
1914 is featured in
the Libraries’ year-
long exhibition
“Make the Dirt Fly!”
Building the Panama
Canal that opened on
November 20 in the
Libraries Exhibition
Gallery (located in

the National Museum From left, Jefrey Stine, Ambassador of Panama Guillermo Ford, William E.
Wortliington Jr., and Nancy E. Gwinn at the exhibition opening reception

of American. History).
Panamanian
Ambassador Guillermo Ford and Director
Nancy E. Gwinn spoke to the assembled
guests at a reception for 260 people.

“Make the dirt fly!” was President
Theodore Roosevelt’s exhortation in March
1904 as he was determined to complete the
greatest engineering effort undertaken to
date. Under the direction of Chief Engineer
George W. Goethals, the 10-year project to
build the canal was finished six months
ahead of schedule and $23 million below
budget: A Bucyrus steam shovel dipper (5
cubic feet) stationed at the gallery entrance
shows the type of equipment used to dig
the canal. Other exhibits on display are
books and newspapers about the canal’s

construction from the Libraries’ collections,
Isthmian Canal Commission materials, a
1915 model of an earth grader, and a
photograph of President Roosevelt on a
Bucyrus steam shovel in Panama in 1906.
An illustrated bilingual English-Spanish
brochure with a Suggested Readings list, a
large print guide, and a braille guide are
available in the gallery for visitors.
William E.-Worthington, Jr. and Jeffrey
Stine, both of National Museum of
American History staff, served as guest
curators of Make the Dirt Fly!

The exhibition remains open through +
January 5, 2001.

History Branch Library

Mario Ascencio and Rhoda Ratner at the National Museum of American

Afro-Latino literature for
distribution at the key-
note event for Hispanic
Heritage Month spon-
sored by the Center. He
continues to be active in
REFORMA projects.

He will receive training
throughout the year in
each of the Libraries’
departments (in-systems,
acquisitions, preservation,
cataloging, and
‘management services) in
order to gain a broad
knowledge of research

Mr. Ascencio meets with
the Institutions’s Latino
Working Committee and

with Dr. Refugio I. Rochin,

Director of the Smithsonian
Center for Latino
Initiatives, and he prepared
a select bibliography on

library procedures.



wi

nformation

FAL / WINTER 1999 _
No. 87

eS

For Users and Benefactors of the
Smithsonian Institution Libraries

SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION

LIBRARIES

The Libraries’ International Reach

The Libraries receives some 3,100 journal
titles without cost from its exchange
partners in 145 countries, from Indonesia,
Russia, and South Africa to Scotland,
China; and Brazil. Each year over half the
scientific journal titles in the Libraries’
collections are received on exchange in its
Gift and Exchange (G&E) program, bring-
ing considerable financial savings. . In
return, many of the 4,635 exchange part-
ners in research centers and universities
receive copies of the Smithsonian Contri-
butions series,
published and
distributed by
the
Smithsonian
Institution

Gifts don-
ated to the
Libraries
comprise a
large part of
yearly acqui- -
sitions. Gen-
erous donors
send both rare | ycien Ros:
and new
books, adding
depth to the Libraries’ collections. The
G&E effort today brings in over 6,000 gift
books annually from the interniational
museum and academic communities and.

" - individuals—an important addition to the

nol, Acqitisitions Servit
Dick, and Melanie Hall unpacking shipments of translations

collections. Director Nancy E. Gwinn
notes, “one of-the principal ways the G&E
section saves the Libraries a significant
amount of money is by paying attention to
the gifts that come in, and if we've already
placed an order for the item, canceling it.
By being so alert and active, G&E saved
the Libraries $1,845 in FY 1999.
Congratulations to G&E staff!”

G&E staff John Dick, Melanie Hall,
Dana Feil, and Yalcin Baykan maintain
the lists of exchange partners, checking in

. journal issues in
diverse disci-,
plines as they
arrive, and
forwarding them
to destinations
within the
Libraries’ 19-
branch system. In
subject matter,
there is a heavy
concentration in
the biological and
physical sciences
and
anthropology.
Typical titles of
journals received
include The Kuwait Bulletin of Marine
Science, Acta palaeontoligica Sinica (Beijing),

Department head, John

continued on p. 3
See G&E

__ SIL News Digest

IN THIS ISSUE
International Reach

by Lucien Rossignol and

John Dick . 1,3
SIRIS 2
Embassies Accept Materials 3
Global Service

by Martin A. Smith 3
Panama Canal Exhibition

Opens
Jean Chandler Smith 7

(1913-1999)

DEPARTMENTS
Letter from the Director

by Nancy E. Gwinn 2
Development Watch

African Art Project 4

Special. Collections
World’s Fairs
International. Visitors

eyuu

Calendar

MARGINALIA
~- Ruby Hamilton
-- Baird Society
—-Czech Collection

by Gwen Leighty
-- Mario Ascencio
--In Brief

SED WKN

N

Photography Credits

THE LIBRARIES IN FY1999
See Centerfold Insert

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SIL News Digest

In Brief...

Staff International Activities

The Libraries and its staff members
participate in programs and hold
memberships:in a number of international
organizations, including’ ICOM
(International Council of Museums), IFLA.
(International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions), and the
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

Service to scientists and students in the.
Republic of Panama and other Central
American countries is an on-going activity
at the Libraries’ branch at the Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute where STRI
Branch Librarian Vielka Chang-Yau and
her staff serve 750 to 1,000 visitors monthly.

Vielka Chang-Yau represented STRI at the
7% Symposium of the Network of Lab-
oratories in the Biological Sciences for
Latin America (RELAB) in Panama.

SIL Director Nancy E. Gwinn attended the
IFLA meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. She
represents the American Library
Association on the IFLA Standing
Commitee on Preservation.

Sherry Kelley participated in the 7
Dublin Core International Workshop in
Frankfurt, Germany, where participants
made progress in developing a qualified
Dublin Core Metadata Element set.

Leslie Overstreet went to England to do
research on Mark Catesby’s works and *
attend meetings of the Society for the
History of Natural History as the North
American Representative. Ruth Schallert
and Courtney Shaw also attended the
meetings. °

Margaret R. Dittemore spoke at a program
on “Moving Librarianship into the Global
Village’ for the International Relations
Committee of the Association of College
and Research Libraries.

William E. Baxter chaired a seminar on the
use of rare books at the 1999 Rare Books
and Manuscripts Pre-conference (American
Library Association) in Montreal, Canada,
with Ron Brashear, Janice S. Ellis, and
Leslie Overstreet participating.

Rhoda Ratner chaired a meeting in
London of the Museum Libraries and
Information Centres working group of the
Documentation Committee of ICOM.

Ron Brashear chaired’ “Exhibiting
Invention and, Discovery,” a session at the
British Library Association Rare Books
Group annual study conference on
Scientific Books in Cambridge, England.

Jean Chandler Smith, 1913-1999

Jean Chandler Smith,
author and twice acting
director of the
Smithsonian Institution.
"4+ Libraries, died of cancer
| on December 21, 1999.
Ms. Smith's extensive
research into the
. writings of the French
naturalist Baron Georges Cuvier (1769-
1832) was published as Georges Cuvier: An
Annotated Bibliography of His Published
Works (Washington, DC: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1992) with an
introduction by Stephen Jay Gould. She
joined the Smithsonian Libraries staff in
1965 and she served as special assistant to

Jean Chandler Smith

the director for collection development of
biological science programs, as assistant
director of reader services and of bureau
services, and as acting director (1972, 1977-
1979). After her retirement in 1981, she
continued as a research associate of SIL.
Ms. Smith worked in libraries over 40
years, in the District of Columbia public
libraries, in Hawaii, at Yale University, and
at the National Institutes of Health. Smith
received an A.B. from Bryn Mawr College,
an MS. in zoology from Yale University,
and an M.L.S. from Catholic University of
America. : :

Our condolences to her family and many
friends.

| Editor, Smithsonian Institution

‘Make the Dirt Fly 3

View the Libraries’ new

online exhibition “Make

the Dirt Fly!” Building the
Panama Canal at
www-ssil.siiedu

Photography Credits

We thank the following
photographers from the
Smithsonian Office of Imaging,
Printing and Photographic
Services: Don Hurlbert for
Acquisitions staff (p. 1), Jeff
Tinsley for SIRIS (p. 2), Hugh
Talman for Hamilton (p. 2),
Ezyaguirre (p. 3), Baird Society
merhbers.(p. 4), and Panama
reception (p. 6), Richard
Strauss for Ascencio and
Ratner (p. 6). We also thank
Jon Goell for African Art
branch photo (p. 4), Martin
Kalfatovic-for interns photo (p.
5), Matt Flynn for Czech book
(p. 5). Vija Karklins for Jean
Chandler Smith (p. 7). Gwinn
photo (p:2)isby
Brooks/Glogan Photographers.

SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION LIBRARIES

Information is published semi-
annually to inform users and
benefactors about services and
programs of the Smithsonian
Institution Libraries.

Send correspondence to the

Libraries, Washington, D.C.
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LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Ruby Hamilton (Hopi)
“was appointed Librarian
of the new National
Museum of the American
Indian Branch (NMAI) at
the Cultural Resources
Center in Suitland,
Maryland. Ms. Hamilton
will develop the branch
library’s collection and
acquaint NMAI staff with
SIL’s collections. She has
developed collections in
Native American Studies
at the New York Public
Library’s Mid-Manhattan
branch, the Tribal College
of D+Q University in
Davis, California, and as
Curator of the Seminole

Ruby Hamilton

Tribe of Florida archives
at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki
Museum on Big Cypress
Reservation. She has a
B.A. in political science
from Sonoma State
University and an M.L.S.
from the University of
California, Berkeley.

Ms. Hainilton is teaching
her granddaughter, who
lives in California, the
Hopi language and Hopi
ways.

+ + +

When I suggested that this issue should
highlight our international activities,-even I
had no idea how extensive they would be.
Of course I knew about our exchange
program, which brings in scientific and
cultural journals, critical to Smithsonian
staff research, from all over the world. The
Institution began to participate in global
communication over 150 years ago.
Indeed, it was one of founding Secretary.
Joseph Henry’s first priorities. Henry
recognized that science and the arts have ©
no national boundaries, that for
humankind to understand nature and the

“power of culture, mén and women must

pool their discoveries and build on each
other’s work. Today, book and journal
publishing continues to grow, far beyond
the capacity of this or any library’s budget’
to keep pace without the mutual
sustenance of fellow libraries and scholarly
societies. The Internet may add speed to
global communication, but it has not
replaced the older forms of information
exchange.

Note that Libraries staff participate

. actively in international professional

associations,
contributing their
time and energy -
to furthering the
work of building,
maintaining, and
improving
libraries and
furthering the
cause of access to
information for
all. Mirroring the
Smithsonian's
planetary
perspective, the

Nancy E. Gwinn

_ Libraries provides valuable work

experiences for foreign librarians, assists
Smithsonian scholars to have significant
foreign scientific treatises translated into
English, and supplies the information
needs of scientists in their field work in
Indonesia, Africa, Central and South
America, and other parts of the world.
Information and scholarship know no

~ boundaries, and neither does the

Smithsonian Libraries.

New System for SIRIS

On December 15, 1999, the Smithsonian
Library Catalog, part of the Smithsonian
Institution Research
Information System
(SIRIS), moved to.a
new system, Horizon,
after months of *
intensive work by
staff of the Libraries
and the Office of
Information
Technology. The
catalog includes the
holdings of the.
Libraries’ 19 branch
libraries and of the

George Van Dyke (OID), Nancy E
National Museum of Gwinn, and Meg Fisher, epixtech, inc.

American Art and'National Portrait
Gallery Library. The new SIRIS is an
integrated system supporting
cataloging, circulation,
acquisitions, and public
access to library holdings. A
software product of
“epixtech, inc.,” Horizon

B offers great flexibility to meet
changing information needs.

PF Find SIRISat
www.siris.si.edu
& from SIL's home page
www.sil.siedu



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Foreign Embassies Accept Surplus Materials

G&E

The embassies of
Romania, Argentina, the
Russian Federation,
Australia, France, Finland,
Guatemala, Poland, and
Belgium are among the
recipients of some 3,700
volumes that were stored in
the Libraries’ Annex.
Duplicates and out-of-
scope materials shared
shelf space at the Annex
with volumes from the
collections of individual
museum libraries acquired
prior to the 1968 estab-
lishment of the Smithsonian
Institution Libraries by
Secretary S. Dillon Ripley.
Foreign language books
and journals in the fields of

~ technology and science
marked for removal were
from a variety of sources,
including gifts and
exchanges with other insti-
tutions. .

The surplussed materials
are written.in German,
Chinese, Japanese, Arabic,
Hungarian, Hebrew,
English, and other lan-

guages. Before deciding to
dispose of the materials,
branch librarians conducted
a final review to confirm
that there was no im- :
mediate or anticipated use
for the materials in the
Libraries’ collections.
Central Research Services
Department head Martin
Smith hired Carmen
Ezyaguirre in 1997 to
consolidate and discard
more than 7,000 books and
journals accumulated in the
Annex at the Smithsonian
Service Center at 1111 N.

‘Capital Street. Fluent in

Spanish, German, Italian,
and French, and using her
imagination and resource-
ful skills, she identified

“many appreciative recip-

ients of these volumes.
Gifted at networking, Ms.
Ezyaguirre successfully
found good homes for 3,700
volumes in foreign and
American libraries,

associations, and societies, ~

including the Mexican.
Cultural Institute and the

shares its resources.

Global Service Via Interlibrary Loan °

From Singapore to the Ukraine, South Africa, and
Norway, libraries in 17 countries were recipients of
books and copies of journal articles supplied via
interlibrary loans. Extending its benefits into this
“digital age,” interlibrary lending is one of the most
important services the Libraries offers. Resource sharing
will continue to be an integral part of the Libraries’
services, adhering to the Smithsonian commitment to
“increase and diffuse knowledge” to the world.

The Libraries has a rich collection of historically -
important scientific materials from the 19% and early 20%
centuries. These “heritage collections” ate very much in
demand by researchers around the world, and
interlibrary loan is one significant way the Libraries

Martin A. Smith
Head, Central Research
Services Department

Carmen Ezyaguirre

Middle East Institute. The
Bulletin de L’Academie
Polonaise Des Sciences was
given to the. Embassy of
Poland and the Italian
Department at Georgetown
University accepted
Sociedad Geografica della
Societa Italiana.

During her search to find
recipients for the Libraries’
surplussed volumes, Ms.
Ezyaguirre learned that
many foreign embassies
were happy to accept runs
of journals in their native
languages for their
libraries. After donating
over 280 French-language
serial volumes, the French.
Ambassador and Cultural
Attache reciprocated by
inviting her to lunch at the
Embassy. :

The much needed space
at the Libraries’ Annex
created by the success of
this project will soon be
filled with materials from

~ overflowing shelves of the

19 branch libraries.

continued from p. 1

and Revisita chileno de
antropolgia (Santiago).
The G&E program at
the Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute (STRI)
Branch in Panama re-

. ceived 240 issues of

journals on exchange and
558 gift books last year.
Vielka Chang-Yau, STRI
Branch Librarian, reports
that the branch has
exchange agreements _
with 92 institutions in

»Central, South, and North

America, Asia, and
Europe.

Stephen Van Dyk,
Librarian at the Cooper-
Hewitt, National Design
Museum Branch notes
that Edie MacGuire, a
volunteer, maintains an
exchange program with
12 foreign and 16 U.S.
museums.

The Libraries’ Frans-
lation Publishing
Program has published.
and distributed English-
language translations of
almost 300 books and
scores of articles sirice the
1960s. Mainly contri-
butions in taxonomic
studies, the books are.
needed by Smithsonian
staff and scientists and
libraries in 60 countries.
Copies are available
through National
Technical Information
Service. For details, see
wwwssil.si.edu under
Translations Program.

Lucien Rossignol, head,
Acquisitions Services
Department

and John Dick, G&E