SPRING/ 

SUMMER~~~~ 

Infomation 

For Users and Benefactors of the 

Smithsonian Institution Libraries 

New Library Building in Panama 

On March 16 the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in the Republic of Panama 

held an inaugural ceremony to open the renovated library building and a new 4-story library 

stack annex. The STRI Branch Library, which houses a collection of 55,000 volumes of 

scientific works relating to the tropics, has served as the premiere Central American research 

library for the scientific community since 1956. The Branch serves over 1,500 users monthly, 

including Smithsonian staff of the Institute, an international community of students in the 

natural sciences and anthropology, and students from the University of Panama majoring in the 

biological sciences. Librarian Vielka Chang-Yau assisted by Library Technicians Angel 

Aguirre, Elizabeth Sanchez, and Bicardo Beteta answer an average of 965 reference questions a month. Three volunteers assist with other tasks. 

Books and scientific journals, collections of maps, and microform copies of journals are housed 

in the 1,800-square-meter annex with appropriate environmental controls. Designed and built as 

a double-lined, 

insulated structure 

with a 24-hour air 

conditioning system, 

the annex ensures the 

protection needed in 

this tropical climate 

to preserve the 

invaluable research 

collection. 

The library boasts 

one of the finest and 

most complete 

bibliographic 

collections in tropical 

biology. Collection 

strengths are 

Mesoamerican 

archaeology, 

Bonita Perry, Vielka Chang-Yau, and Barbara J. Smith at new librav annex 

Continued on page 6 in Panama 

IN THIS ISSUE 

New Library Building 

by Vielka Chang-Yau 196 

Museum Reference Center 

by Valerie J. Wheat 

CD-ROM Network Upgrade 

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6 

DEPARTMENTS 

Letterfrom the Director 

The Libraries’ Reach 

Development Watch 

Special Collections 

Natural History 

Rare Book Library 

SIL News Digest 

Advisory Committee 

Media Fair 

Balloons Music Program 

End Notes: Calendar 

of Exhibitions 

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4 

5 

I 

8 

MARGINALIA 

- Events 2 

- Publications 3 

- African Art Index 4 

- Resident Scholars 5 

- Featuring 6 

- In Brief 7 
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COMING 

EVENTS 

LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR 

The Libraries ’ Reach 

DIBNER LIBRARY 

LECTURE 

“Chemistry Imagined” 

by Roald Hoffmann 

of Cornell University 

An illustrated 

public lecture 

May 30,199s 

4:00 p.m. 

Reception Suite 

National Museum of 

American History 

Based on the Smithsonian 

Institution Press publication, 

Chemistry Imagined (1993, 

1995) by Roald Hoffmann and 

Vivian Torrence 

Presented in conjunction with 

the Libraries’ exhibition Science 

and the Artist’s Book 

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LIBRARY FAIR 

October 19, 1995 

10 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Ripley Center 

Smithsonian Institution Libraries 

presents demonstrations of 

library services and products, 

featuring the CD-ROM Network, 

Internet, and World Wide Web. 

Staff available to answer 

questions, two lectures 

scheduled. 

Call 202-357-2139 

for information 

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries’ first priority is to serve the 

information needs of the researchers and staff of the Smithsonian. We do, 

additionally, serve a wider community and with considerable impact. In 

the two branches featured in this issue (pages 1 and 3), a service emphasis 

is users from outside the Smithsonian community. The Libraries’ 

Exchange Program includes 4,614 partners at libraries, museums, 

research institutes, and universities in 150 countries, with 1,215 in the 

United States. The program offers publications of the Smithsonian in 

exchange for those of our partners. Through Interlibrary Loan the 

Libraries answers annually approximately 5,200 requests for information 

Barbara J. Smith, 

Director 

from other libraries. Information about 

the Libraries is available on the Internet; 

the catalog of our holdings is available 

there as well (telnet\\siris.si.edu). 

Questions by phone and written inquiry 

from the public are answered routinely by 

staff in all our locations, although more 

slowly of late given constraints on staff 

time. With the support of The Getty 

Grant Program, the Libraries will create 

an online index and guide to the literature 

of African art and culture over the next 

three years. Through the Internet, 

students and scholars of African art and 

culture will have at their desktop computers access to some 52,000 citations for 

publications including books and journal 

articles of value to researchers as well as 

students and laymen interested in topics 

concerning African life. The announcement of the availability of the index and 

guide will be shared widely. 

Selected rare books and special items are 

displayed in the Libraries’ Exhibition 

Gallery adjacent to the Dibner Library of 

the History of Science and Technology in the 

National Museum of American History 

where the bulk of our rare book collection is 

now housed. The Gallery provides the 

Libraries with an important vehicle for 

making the public aware of the riches in our 

collections and the value of books and words 

on paper in making connections to the past 

whether focused on the physical or natural 

sciences, the arts, or the humanities. Science 

and the Artist’s Book is on view May 26, 

1995 through May 28,1996. This thoughtprovoking exhibition is based on the Heralds 

ofScience identified by the Libraries’ 

benefactor Dr. Bern Dibner as “landmarks in 

the history of science and technology.” 

Through the generosity of The Dibner Fund, 

the Libraries supports research directly by 

hosting two scholars annually whose work 

qualifies them as worthy students of the 

history of science and technology. 

Barbara J. Smith 

RECENT GIFTS TO THE LIBRARIES’ COLLECTIONS 

A copy of Thunberg ‘s Drawings of 

Japanese Plants (1994) and the fourvolume set of Siebold’s Florilegium of 

Japanese Plants (1994) were recently 

added to the collections. The volumes 

were a gift to the Museum of Natural 

History by the publisher, the Maruzen 

Company, Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan. These 

collections of illustrations which have been 

in the library of the Komarov Institute in St. 

Petersburg, Russia, since the mid 18OOs, have 

never been published before. The reproductions are of very high quality and add an 

important resource to the Botany Branch 

collections. 
Spring/Summer 1995 Information Page 3 

Museum Reference Center PUBLICATIONS 

The Museum Reference Center (MRC) branch library and information center, one of the gems 

of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries’ 18-branch system, is the first-line reference resource 

for museological information. Established in 1974 to merge all the various collections of 

museum reference material located throughout the Smithsonian, the Museum Reference Center 

houses one of the largest collections of bibliographic and documentary materials related to 

museum theory and practice in the United States. Patterned after the UNESCOKOM (Intemational Council of Museums) Documentation Centre in Paris, the collections today include over 

4,000 books, 70 current journal titles, 1,500 microfiche of ICOM indexed documents, the audio 

cassettes of the American Association of Museums’ annual meetings since 1979, and 90 running 

feet of vertical files. These information sources are the tools of the trade for the many museum 

professionals who are regular users of this branch. 

In contrast to some of the other branches of the Libraries’ system, approximately half of the 

Museum Reference Center visitors and users are members of the public rather than Smithsonian 

staff. Regular customers are local university students from the George Washington University 

museum studies program, visiting scholars and fellows, and museum professionals from the 

national and international communities. The MRC branch works closely with the Institution’s 

Center for Museum Studies (CMS), formerly known as the Office of Museum Programs, 

supporting the research and information needs of its staff, and actively participating in the 

educational and training programs held regularly by the CMS for museum professionals around 

the world. 

The Museum Reference Center provides a full range of reference services including online 

database access. The wealth as well as the distinction of its reference service is located in the 

ephemera contained in the MRC vertical files. These materials include examples of collection 

management policies, by-laws, charters, educational programs, docent manuals, tourism 

information, membership and fundraising promotions, visitor surveys and evaluation studies, 

and training and exhibit techniques. The branch library provides files of “Current Information” 

for its patrons which hold news releases, calendars, exhibition notices, and information about 

scholarships, workshops, and conferences. 

The Museum Reference 

Center is located adjacent 

to the Center for Museum Studies in the Arts 

and Industries Building, 

900 Jefferson Drive, NW, 

Room 2235. Valerie 

Wheat is Librarian and 

Robert Poarch is 

Library Technician. The 

branch is open Monday 

through Friday, 8:45 am 

- 5:15 pm, except Federal 

holidays. Visitors from 

outside the Institution are 

asked to telephone for an Museum Reference Center Librtrriun Valerie Wheat and Library Technician 

appointment. Telephone: Robert Poarch 

202-786-2271. 

Valerie Wheat 

“The Ricketts Index of the 

United States and Possessions,” Philatelic Literature 

Review (PLR), 2nd series, 44 

(no. 1): 13-63. The index 

which Ricketts began to 

compile in the 1890s and 

covers the years 1853 to 1927 

will be published serially in 

the next 12 issues of PLR. 

The original index cards are 

in the collections of the 

National Postal Museum 

Branch. The compiler, 

William R. Ricketts ( 1869- 

1956), is described as “the 

greatest indexer in philatelic 

history” by Dr. Herbert A. 

Trenchard, Trustee of the 

American Philatelic Research 

Library. Timothy Carr, 

Librarian of the National 

Postal Museum Branch, 

cooperated with PLR in 

making Ricketts’ index cards 

available for publication. 

Nancy E. Gwinn and Robert 

W. Rydell, eds, Fair Representations: World’s Fairs 

and the Modem World”. 

European Contributions to 

American Studies XXVII 

(Amsterdam, 1994). 

Martin R. Kalfatovic, 

“Planning Basics for a 

Library FTP Site” in The 

Internet Library: Case 

;;: Studies of Library Internet 

3 Management and Use, ed. 

B 

2 

Julie Still. (1994) pp. 37-44. 

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AFRICAN ART INDEX 

The Getty Grant Program has 

awarded the Libraries 

$197,250 for a three-year 

project to create records of an 

Online Index and Finding 

Guide to the Literature of 

African Art and Culture. 

International in scope, the 

index is a powerful educational tool for all levels of 

students of African art and 

culture. With its 52,000 

citations to subjects in 

articles and books, the index 

will be available on the 

Internet as part of the 

Libraries’ online catalog. 

The project is under the 

direction of Janet Stanley, 

Librarian, Museum of 

African Art Branch, and 

Vicki Avera, Cataloging 

Department. 

This relatively young 

discipline reaches across 

fields in the humanities and 

social sciences, covering 

subjects ranging from design 

to oral traditions. The index 

responds to the public’s 

growing interest in nonWestern art and increasing 

demands from scholars and 

the public alike for information in this expanding field. 

The index will use authoritative subject terms from the 

Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), the Library of 

Congress List of Subject 

Headings, as well as new 

terms proposed by the 

Libraries’ subject specialists 

for the AAT. 

Development Watch 

The Dihner Fund has awarded a grant of $12,000 to the Libraries, $10,000 to support the 

fourth year of the SIL/Dibner Library Resident Scholar Program, and $2,000 to fund the Dibner 

Library Lecture Series. (Seep. 5 for 1995 scholars, p. 2 for 1995 lecture) \ \ 

Other Exhibition Awards: The Libraries 

received a grant of $25,480 from the Special 

‘I’\. Exhibition Fund for Science and the Artist’s 

i Book which opens May 26. The Glen Eagles 

Foundation contributed $15,000 towards 

I funding this exhibition which is co-sponsored 

I by the Washington Project for the Arts. (Seep. 

8, Calendar) 

The Smithsonian Women’s Committee recently made two grants to the Libraries: one for 

$15,000 to support an official 150th anniversary exhibition, From Smithson to Smithsonian: The j 

Birth ofan Institution. The exhibition is a joint endeavor of the Libraries, the Smithsonian 

Archives, and the Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation. A second grant of 

$986 to the Preservation Services Department is to purchase special foam book supports to 

protect rare books when being used by researchers. 

The Pauline Tina Lesnik Memorial Fund 

proceeds will be used for acquisitions in all 

branches. The fund is in memory of Ms. Lesnik 

(1948- 1994), head of the Acquisitions Services 

Department from 1987 to November 1993, who 

died in a highway accident in Colorado in 

December, 1994. 

The Lillian Saxe Memorial Fund has been 

established by family and friends of Mrs. Saxe 

(1913- 1995) to purchase library materials 

relating to Japanese art and culture. The 

Libraries purchased several valuable books 

with funds received in honor of Mrs. Saxe on 

her eightieth birthday in 1993. 

The Libraries purchased a very rare book on 

mollusks with money received from the 

The Wells Endowment Fund in memory of 

Institution’s Collections Acquisitions Fund with 

Ellen Baker Wells (1934- 1995) and of her 

additionalfunds from the Libraries’ Special 

father Professor John W. Wells, paleontologist 

Collections Endowment and the Museum of emeritus of Cornell University, was established 

Natural History’s Division of Mollusks. J. J. N. A. at Ms. Wells’ direction. Proceeds from the fund 

Spalowsky’s Prodromus in systema historicum will be used to purchase rare printed and 

testaceorum (Vienna 179.5), a jewel in the research manuscript materials relating to science, 

collections, has many life-size illustrations in technology, and instrumentation. Ms. Wells, 

hand-colored engraved plates of 122 species. head of the Libraries’ Special Collections 

Department from 1979 and Libraries’ Exhibition Officer from 1990, died of cancer on April 

2. She had curated a number of exhibitions for the Libraries’ Gallery. A respected author, she 

was co-author of The Annotated Black Beauty (1989) and the popular Libraries’ pamphlet, Book 

Collecting and the Care of Books, and she published in a number of other fields. (See Information # 77 for summary of Ms. Wells’ career, p. 2) 
Spring/Summer 1995 Information Page 5 

Special Collections 

Natural History Rare Book Library 

Some of the oldest and rarest materials in the Libraries’ Special Collections will be moved to a 

new Natural History Rare Book Library, scheduled to open in 1998. Architectural plans provide 

for optimal environmental conditions to preserve these valuable materials. The library will have 

study space for readers with wiring for their personal computers, and a secured area for the 

books, maps, manuscripts, and other library materials. The Library, to be constructed in the East 

Court of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), will consolidate special collections 

materials in all fields of natural history and anthropology, and assure environmentally sound 

housing for these Smithsonian treasures, many of which are irreplaceable. 

Practical manuals like John Coakley Lettsom’s 

collector’s manual, 1774, are of particular interest to 

Smithsonian staff who study specimens in the 

Institution’s natural history collections. 

The Library has been located in the 

Museum of Natural History to better serve 

the primary users of the natural history and 

anthropology library collections. The 

library’s design includes a small exhibit 

area with exhibition cases for temporary 

displays. The Libraries also plans to show 

selections from the Audubon double 

elephant folio Birds of America, on 

permanent loan from the National Audubon Society. 

The largest transfer of materials will come 

from the Jewett Room in the Arts and 

Industries Building which since the 1970s 

has housed Libraries. .j~. I,:/ it ~llcctions 

materials in the 

fields of natural 

history and 

expeditions and voyages of exploration. Charles Coffin Jewett, for 

whom the room was named, was the Institution’s first librarian, 

appointed by the Board of Regents in 1847. 

Manuscripts and printed volumes in various natural history subjects, 

currently housed for security and environmental protection in the 

Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology (located in 

the National Museum of American History) and which are not part of 

the Burndy Library gift, will be moved to the new library. The special 

collections in anthropology which include impressive materials on 

Native Americans will be transferred to the facility. Other valuable 

books now housed in locked closets, wire cages, and on secured 

shelves in other parts of the Natural .History building will also be 

housed there. In total, some 14,000 volumes will be shelved in this 

5,000 square foot library. 

Federal funds have been made available for construction. The 

responsibility to raise private funds to furnish, to provide staff, and to 

operate the library once construction is complete has been charged to 

the Libraries. 

SIL / DIBNER LIBRARY 

RESIDENT SCHOLARS 

Supported by the Dibner Fund 

for the study of the history of 

science and technology, the 

Libraries welcomes the 1995 

scholars. 

Kenneth L. Caneva, Associate 

Professor of History at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, is conducting a study of 

19thcentury physics, with 

attention to physiology in 

connection with his study of 

Robert Mayer and the conservation of energy. 

Bruce Janacek, a Ph.D. candidate at University of California, 

Davis, will work with the more 

than 130 manuscripts and 

publications in the Dibner 

Library relating to alchemy for 

his study of the religious 

significance of alchemy in early 

modem England. 

Secretary I. Michael Heyman in Jewett Room 
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FEATURING . . . 

Jean Hines was appointed 

Reference Librarian at the 

Cooper-Hewitt National 

Design Museum Branch. She 

comes to the Libraries from 

the Pratt Institute where she 

was the art and architecture 

librarian. She also worked at 

New York Public Library as 

librarian for the art collection 

at the Mid-Manhattan 

Library. Ms. Hines earned 

her M.L.S. at C. W. Post 

Long Island University, and 

her B. A. in art from Oswego 

State University, New York. 

Margaret D’Ambrosio, 

Cataloger, on leave of 

absence through January 

1996, is serving as resource 

librarian at the Biblioteca 

Berenson, the Harvard 

University Center for Italian 

Renaissance Studies in 

Fiesole, overlooking Florence, Italy. The Andrew W. 

Mellon Foundation provided 

funds for the automation of 

four Florentine libraries, the 

Biblioteca Berenson, the 

Biblioteca degli Uffizi, and 

the libraries of the Fondazione Roberto Longhi and the 

Dutch University Institute. 

The newly installed automated system will enable readers 

to search library catalogs 

available on the Internet. Ms. 

D’Ambrosio is providing 

guidance in training staff, 

consulting on issues of 

bibliographic control, and 

serving as a resource person 

developing standards for a 

union catalog. 

CD-ROM Network Upgraded 

The Libraries has upgraded the equipment in its CD-ROM Network, increasing the number of 

CD-ROMs that are available at one time. The Network allows quick access by Smithsonian 

library users through local area networks to a sizeable library of discs. The CD-ROM Network, 

established in 1991 with funds provided by the James Smithson Society, is heavily used, 

providing Smithsonian researchers with remote access from their desktop computers to indexes 

and abstracts of information published in CD-ROM format. Databases now available are 

Agricola (agriculture), American History and Life, Art Index, Bibliography of Native North 

Americans, Biological Abstracts, ERIC (education), Periodicals Abstracts, The Species Information Library, Wildlife and Fisheries Review, and Zoological Record. 

NEW LIBRARY BUILDING CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 

Library Technicians Angel Aguirre, Elizabeth Sanchez, Ricardo Beteta, Librarian Vie&a ChangYau, Eleuterio Santos, Janitor, and Pastor Rodriguez, Security Guard, in renovated library 

anthropology, geology, evolutionary biology, 

ecology, plant physiology, molecular biology, 

behavioral ecology, paleoecology and 

paleobotany, entomology, marine invertebrates, tropical forest dynamics, plant 

systematics, coral reefs, and conservation and 

management of protected areas. Librarian 

Vielka Chang-Yau commented, “This library 

collection is truly a biologist’s paradise.” 

The collection grew from a core of 60 

volumes donated in 1925 by Barbour Lathrop 

and housed on Barro Colorado Island in the 

Panama Canal. In 1956 the collection of 

James Zetek was added, in the 1970s the 

volumes were transferred to Panama City, and 

in 1983 STRI moved the Library to a new 

building named for its benefactor Earl Silas 

Tupper. 

The annex was funded by the Tupper Foundation, with the support and assistance of STRI 

Director Ira Rubinoff. Members of the Tupper 

family attended the inauguration ceremony 

where a bust of Earl Silas Tupper was 

unveiled. Others in attendance were Libraries’ 

Director Barbara J. Smith and Bonita 

Perry, Assistant Director, Research Services, 

Dora de Perez Ballardes, wife of the President 

of Panama, and members of the diplomatic 

corps, the cabinet and legislature, and the 

local library and business communities. 

The exterior wall of the annex is decorated 

with a colorful mosaic titled “The Exchange” 

(El Trueque) by Panamanian artist Brooke 

Alfaro. The title refers to the role of the 

Isthmus of Panama in both biological and 

international commercial exchanges. 

The STRI Branch Library is open MondayFriday, 8 a.m.4p.m.; and Saturdays 9 a.m.- 

12 noon, except on U. S. Federal holidays and 

on Panamanian holidays. 

Vielka Chang- Yau 
Spring/Summer 1995 Information Page 7 

SIL NEWS DIGEST 

Users Advisory Committee 

New appointees to 

the Users Advisory 

Committee are 

Deborah Jean 

Warner, National 

Museum of 

American History, 

Bryna Freyer, 

National Museum 

of African Art, Jess 

Parker, Smithsonian 

Environmental 

Research Center, 

Edmund Worthy, 

The Smithsonian 

Associates, Conrad 

Labandeira, 

Libraries Users Advisory Committee. Seated (left) Dominick Pisano, Conrad 

Labandeira, Bryna Freyer. Standing (left) Lisa Bamett, Deborah Jean Warner, Ed 

Worthy, Barbara J. Smith. 

National Museum of Natural History, Brian Marsden, Center for Astrophysics, and Lisa Barnett, 

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Members serving the second year of the two-year term are 

Michelle K. Smith, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, and Dominick Pisano, National 

Air and Space Museum. Members whose terms ended in 1994 are Charles Gallegos, Smithsonian 

Environmental Research Center, Bryan Kennedy, Smithsonian Institution Press, Rodris Roth, 

National Museum of American History, and George Zug, National Museum of Natural History. The 

committee advises the director of Libraries on matters related to the Libraries’ mission and issues 

affecting library service to the Institution in general. Barbara J. Smith convenes the third FY 1995 

meeting of the committee on May 3 1. 

MEDIA FAIR 

Libraries’ staff participated in the Institution- Begg, American History Branch, and Alvin 

wide Media Fair held on January 3 1 in the Hutchinson, Natural History Branch, gave 

Information Age space at the Museum of demonstrations of Libraries’ services and 

American History which showcased the latest products including the Digital Imaging CDinformation resources offered by numerous ROM, Word Wide Web access, SIRIS, First 

Smithsonian offices. Tom Garnett, Systems Search, the CD-ROM Network, and the Libraries’ 

Head, gave a presentation on SIRIS, the catalog on CD-ROM. The demonstrations 

Smithsonian Institution Research Information generated great interest among the attendees. 

System. Martin Kalfatovic, Information Access Mimi Scharf and Anne GiEord, Systems, set up 

Coordinator, Anne Gifford, Systems, Amy and took down the equipment in record time. 

“Come Up in My Balloon” 

SIL presented 4 public pedormances of music 

about balloons written between 1890 and 1910, 

from the collections of the Air and Space Museum 

2 

Branch Library. Performed by U.S. Navy Band 

5 

Sea Chanters, Ron Chiles, Director, with Dwight 

$ 

Bowers, National Museum of American History, 

e 

as Master of Ceremonies. 

k h 

IN BRIEF 

Preservation Microjilm 

Storage 

Benefitting from membership 

in the Research Libraries 

Group (RLG) preservation 

program, the Libraries is now 

storing its preservation 

microfilm master negatives in 

a secure climate-controlled 

vault at the National Underground Storage in Pennsylvania. Providing optimal 

archival storage conditions 

off-site brings the Libraries 

into compliance with 

standards developed by RLG, 

the Library of Congress, and 

the Association for Information and Image Management. 

Smithsonian lastitutito 

Libraries 

Informution is published 

semiannually to inform 

users and benefactors about 

XL’s services and 

programs and about issues 

affecting the Libraries. 

Nancy L. Matthews, Editor 

Send all correspondence to 

the editor, SIL, at Natural 

History Building 22, MRC 

154, Smithsonian 

Institution, Washington, 

DC 20560. Telephone 

(202) 357-2240. Fax (202) 

786-2866. 

Presstar Printing, Inc. 

Design and Production 

Printed on recycled paper. @ 
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END NOTES 

Calendar of Exhibitions 

LIBRARIES EXHIBITION GALLERY 

May 26 - November 3, 1995 

National Museum of American History, first floor, west wing 

10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily 

Science and the Artist’s Book, Part 1 Co-sponsored by the Washington Project for the Arts 

Carol Barton and Diane Shaw, curators 

Part 2 shown May 26 - September 2,1995 

at the Washington Project for the Arts, 400 7th Street NW 

November 17, 1995 - May 28,1996 

Science and the Artist’s Book, Part 2 

Opening July 1996 From Smithson to Smithsonian: The Birth of an Institution 

Co-sponsored by the &umsoman Institution Archives and Office of Architectural History and Historic 

Preservation 

Pamela Henson, curator 

SIL LIBRARY HALL 

Opens July 1995 

National Museum of Natural History, first floor, east hall 

Restricted access. Call Director’s Office, 202-357-2240, for appointment to view 

Nineteenth-century Publisher’s Bindings 

Claire Dekle, curator 

Smithsonian Institution Libraries 

Natural History Building 22, MRC 154 

Washington, D. C. 20560 

OFFICIAL BUSINESS 

BULK RATE 

Postage & Fees r PAID 

Smithsonian 

Institution 

PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE, $300 1 Permit No. G-94