FALL AND 

WINTER ‘1994 

Information 

For Users and Benefactors of the 

Smithsonian Institution Libraries 

Spiders! Curator Talks to the Libraries 

C urator Jonathan Coddington’s current exhibition in the Museum of Natural History is 

drawing crowds of all ages, curious about spiders, common and uncommon. Ann Juneau, 

head of the Libraries’ Natural and Physical Sciences Department, recently spoke with Coddington about how SIL supports the research needs of curators in the museum. 

Q (Juneau): As chairman of the Entomology Department, would you please comment on how 

you and your colleagues use the Libraries’ resources? 

A (Coddington): There are few issues that are more important to researchers in science than the 

quality of the library. The sheer quantity of nineteenth-century printed materials in SIL collections 

and the ease of access to them are invaluable assets to the research conducted here in taxonomy and 

systematics. Scientists from around the world come to work with the 27 million specimens in the 

national collections at the Smithsonian. The library collections are matchless, but its research 

qualities are now in decline. As you know, in the last few years, the Libraries has bought fewer 

books, and has canceled some journal subscriptions because of increasing costs all around. The 

research community in the Entomology Department and throughout the museum is deeply distressed at the lack of money available to the Libraries to keep up the high quality of its collections. 

Q (Juneau): Which aspects of the Natural History Branch Library collections do you value most? 

A (Coddington): One of the greatest strengths is the historical depth of the library collections; 

SIL has one of the three best 

library collections on entomology 

in the country. The huge bulk of 

taxonomic research embodied in 

the classical works found in the 

Smithsonian Libraries’ collections is an invaluable resource to 

entomology research. These 

library collections have the 

optimal blend of value and rarity, 

and they are an integral complement to the national collections 

[of entomology specimens] 

entrusted to the National Museum 

of Natural History. 

.Jolrtrrlrirll cocltli,l~i~~ir. (‘/l~illl~ /. ii /, ,/‘, ,; ‘\.,’ it-cl/ Il/\iill-\ 

Department of Entomology, and spider poster with Ann Juneau, 

SIL Natural and Physical Sciences Department head. (Carl 

Hansen) (Continued on page 3) 

INTHIS ISSUE 

Spiders! Curator Talks to SIL 

by Ann Juneau 1, 3 

Libraries’ Images Digitized for 

Pilot Project 

by Nancy E. Gwinn 3 

Webb Purchase of U.S. Frontier 

Book 4 

Ripley Library Endowment 

Purchases 5 

From Ownership to Access 

by Martin A. Smith 6 

Balloons Exhibition Opening 7 

DEPARTMENTS 

Letterfrom the Director 2, 5 

“Departing Staff’ 

Development Watch 4 

SIL News Digest: 

Student Workforce at SIL 7 

The Libraries Needs. 7 

End Notes: Calendar of 

Exhibitions 8 

MARGINALIA 

- Deputy Director Karklins 

Retires 2 

- Trade Catalog Project 3 

- Featuring. . 4 

- Donors List 5 

- ShaRes Membership 6 

- Workshops 6 

- In Brief 7 
Page 2 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES Fall/Winter 1994 

DEPUTY 

DIRECTOR 

RETIRES 

Vija L. Karklins, Deputy 

Director of the Libraries and head 

of Systems and Technical 

Services Division, had a 

distinguished career in the library 

profession. She served on the 

Executive Advisory Council of 

FEDLINK, was chairman of 

FLICC (Federal Library and 

Information Center Committee) 

in 1988-89, and was a member of 

the Executive Advisory Council 

of FLICC, 1979-1982. She 

served on the Users Council of 

the Online Computer Library 

Center and on study teams of the 

Association of Research 

Libraries, and has published 

articles on librarianship. She 

earned a master’s degree at 

Columbia University School of 

Library Science, after graduating 

cum laude from the City College 

of New York. She began her 

career as a librarian at the 

University of Minnesota BioMedical Library in Minneapolis, 

moving to the National Institutes 

of Health Library in Bethesda, 

Maryland. She began working at 

the Smithsonian Libraries in 

1965; was named head of the 

cataloging division in 1969, 

became chief of technical 

services in 1972, and was named 

Assistant Director in 1975, 

Associate Director in 1980, and 

Deputy Director in 1986. 

LETTER FROMTHEDIRECTOR . 

Departing Staff 

T his fall ten valued individuals, including Deputy Director Vija L. Karklins [see notice in 

1 margin], left the SIL staff. Collectively these librarians and technicians gave more than 150 

years of service to the Smithsonian Libraries. We dedicate this space usually reserved for 

“Letter from the Director” to note briefly the more remarkable accomplishments in the careers 

of the professional staff who have left SIL. We also note with regret the departure of five 

Library Technicians, Carolyn Hahn, Interlibrary Loan Technician, Central Reference and Loan 

Services, who gave exemplary service to the Libraries since 1969, Dorine Joynes and Gary 

Harmon of Catalog Records who worked for SIL since 1988 and 1986 respectively, Pat JustBuddy, Automated Bibliographic Control since 1974, and Jim Bloodworth, Planning and 

Administration Office from 198 1. The loss of all these staff is considerable, and we are attempting to minimize its impact on our user community. For now, let me say thank you to all of them 

for their splendid service. Barbara J. Smith 

Ellen B. Wells, Head, Special Collections Department since 1979 and Exhibition Officer, 1990-94, formulated the 

policies that govern the Libraries’ most 

valuable collections. She directly 

supervised the Dibner Library of the 

History of Science and Technology, and 

curated a number of exhibitions for SIL, 

including Science in the Age of Columbus 

(1992), Tunnels! (1993-94), and Turning 

Over Old Leaves: A Sampler of Written 

Records (1990-91). Ms. Wells managed 

the Libraries’ exhibition program and its 

Gallery in the Museum of American 

History, and gave many public presentations on book collecting. A respected 

author, she has published in a number of 

fields. Her Horsemanship: A Bibliogruphy of Printed 

Materials from 

the Sixteenth 

Century through 

1974 (1985) is 

the source for the 

‘Wells numbers’ 

cited by book 

dealers. For 

several years she 

and Robert 

M&auf served as 

editors for 

Garland Publishing, Inc.‘s 

Bibliographies in 

the History of Science and Technology. With 

Anne Grimshaw she wrote the introduction 

and annotations for The Annotated Black 

Beauty (by Anna Sewell) (1989), she 

published several articles in the National 

Sporting Library Newsletter and contributed 

notes and articles to journals, encyclopedias, 

and newsletters. Ms. Wells earned her M.L.S. 

at University of California, Berkeley, and an 

M.A. at McGill University, Montreal. Prior 

to coming to SIL she worked at the National 

Library of Medicine, the Osler Library of the 

History of Medicine at McGill University, 

and Cornell University Library. 

Helen Nordberg who headed the Original 

Cataloging and Indexing Department since 

1986, came to the Libraries in 1970. She was 

a member of the Library Information 

Technology Association of the American 

Library Association, of the Potomac Technical Processing Librarians, and the Washington Rare Book group. She did her 

undergraduate work at University of Chattanooga, Tennessee, earned her M.L.S. at the 

University of Maryland, and was named to 

Beta Phi Mu, the library science honor 

society. 

Catherine D. Scott, Senior Reference 

Librarian in Central Reference and Loan 

Services, has contributed to the profession in 

a number of distinguished capacities. She 

served as president of the Special Libraries 

(Continued on page 5) 
Fall/Winter 1994 hforrnation Page 3 

SIL Images Digitizedfor Pilot Project 

I n a collaborative venture with the Commission on Preservation and Access, SIL developed a 

CD-ROM containing digitized images of plates and other illustrations from the Libraries’ 

Special Collections. The project is a pilot to determine the best way to select, capture, and 

present appropriate images from rare books and other special materials and to assess ways in 

which these images might be used 

for research and in the classroom. 

The demonstration disk contains 

189 images from volumes in the 

history of science and technology, 

natural history, Native American 

history, world’s fairs and intemational expositions, aviation history, 

and trade catalogs. Descriptive 

information accompanying the 

images, which is searchable by 

keyword, includes captions and 

subject headings together with the 

author, title, and imprint data from 

the books containing the images. 

SIL helped to staff the Commission’s exhibition booth and 

demonstrated the CD-ROM at 

Anne Gifford (right) demonstrating the CD-ROM to Jennifer 

Trant, Manager, Imaging Initiative of the Getty Art History 

Information Project, with Nancy E. Gwinn (left) (Carl Hansen) 

scholarly conferences in October. Leslie K. Overstreet, Special Collections reference librarian, 

showed the CD-ROM to scholars attending the annual meeting of the Society for the History of 

Technology in Lowell, Massachusetts, while Anne Gifford, SIL systems librarian, and Nancy 

E. Gwinn, assistant director, collections management, demonstrated the disc to attendees of the 

American Studies Association meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. The CD-ROM was produced 

for the Commission by Luna Imaging, Inc., of Venice, California. 

The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, located in the National Museum 

of American History, will provide demonstrations of the photo CD-ROM by appointment, 

starting in February 1995. 

Spiders ! continuedfrom page 1 

Nancy E. Gwinn 

Collections Management 

Q (Juneau): The Libraries started a preservation program in 199 1, to reformat fragile library 

materials that would otherwise crumble and be lost. What do you think of Brittle Books program which has started to preserve the entomology library collections? 

A (Coddington): For both journals and books, the whole latter part of the nineteenth century is 

turning to dust, as you know. There are materials in the entomology library collections that are 

absolutely irreplaceable. So this project is crucial to the survival of the information for use by 

future generations. I am glad to hear SIL has taken the responsibility to ensure the preservation 

of library materials in these national collections. 

(Juneau): Thank you for talking with me. And congratulations on your exhibition, Spiders! 

(Spiders! is showing in the National Museum of Natural History through January 2, 1995, then 

traveling to several cities around the country.) 

TRADE 

CATALOG 

PROJECT SEEKS 

VOLUNTEERS 

Smithsonian Research 

Expeditions is offering a 

project to organize and 

preserve a portion of SIL’s 

historic catalogs “To the 

Trade,” August 6-12, 1995. 

Crucial to the work of 

curators in the National 

Museum of American 

History (NMAH), these 

printed materials which 

document thk history of 

American commerce and 

manufacturing were often 

printed on the poorest quality 

paper, and now are in 

imminent danger of being 

lost to deterioration. Directed 

by Rhoda Ratner. Librarian 

of the NMAH Branch 

Library, volunteer participants will work with the 

portion of the collection 

purchased from the Franklin 

Institute of Philadelphia, the 

pre-eminent technical 

institute of the last century. 

To participate in the project, 

contact Smithsonian 

Research Expeditions, The 

Smithsonian Associates, 

Washington, D. C. 

20560-0577. Telephone: 

202-287-3210. 
Page 4 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIRRARII# Fall/Winter 1994 

FEATURING . . . Development Watch 

Amy Begg has joined the 

National Museum of American 

History Branch as Reference 

Librarian. Ms. Begg earned an 

M.A. in History and a M.S.L.S. 

from The Catholic University of 

America, and a B. A. in History 

from the University of 

Richmond. She has served as an 

intern in the archives of the 

White House and has worked in 

the government document 

library of Georgetown 

University. 

T he Libraries’ current exhibition, Balloons: The Birth of Flight, 1783-1793, was underwritten by a generous gift from Mr. Barron Hilton, with contributions from The Smithsonian Women’s Committee, Mr. Jacques Soukup and Mr. Kirk Thomas, and Dr. and Mrs. James 

L. Rand. The Libraries’ exhibition scheduled to open in the spring of 1995, Science and the 

Artist’s Book, is funded by the Glen Eagles Foundation and the Smithsonian Special Exhibition 

Fund. 

Margaret Dittemore, Librarian 

of the Anthropology Branch 

Library, was named Chairman of 

the Anthropology and Sociology 

Section of the Association of 

College and Research Libraries 

of the American Library 

Association in July. 

Margaret D’Ambrosio, 

Original Cataloging and 

Indexing, was re-appointed to 

the American Library 

Association’s Association for 

Library Collections and 

Technical Services Committee 

on Cataloging Asian and African 

Materials. 

The Atherton Seidell Endowment Fund awarded the Libraries $18,250 to complete the publication of an English translation of V. G. Heptner’s Mammals of the Soviet Union, II, Parts 1A and 

1B. An additional $9,500 was received from the National Science Foundation for the same 

project. The Libraries’ Translations Publishing Program terminated this year after thirty-four 

years of providing research support to Institution staff when the Special Foreign Currency 

operating funds which supported it were exhausted. Since the program’s inception in 1960, the 

Libraries published, registered with the National Technical Information Service, and distributed 

gratis copies of 274 scientific books and articles translated into English from foreign languages. 

The Institution’s Research Resources Program made $14,565 available to the Libraries for 

purchasing conservation 

supplies to rehouse a 

portion of the trade 

literature collection in ‘I‘.\cxl:l~r’ll I‘I.\l‘:It I:l‘:lsl*: 

the National Museum of 

,,/ 

American History 8&WSSIPPI NACH DEN K&TEN DER SibSEE. 

Branch Library. 

Nancy E. Gwinn, Assistant 

Director, Collections 

Management, delivered a paper 

on “The Smithsonian Institution 

and International Publication 

Exchange” at the Society for the 

History of Natural History 

meeting in London, England. 

The conference theme is “My 

Dear Sir. The Development 

of International Communication 

in Natural History.” The 

Smithsonian Research 

Opportunities Fund supported 

her trip with a travel grant. 

To honor Secretary 

Emeritus Robert 

McCormick Adams, 

members of the 

Smithsonian Council, 

past and present, made 

individual contributions 

to purchase books for 

research support in 

anthropology and 

archaeology. 

Martin R. Kalfatovic, 

Information Access Coordinator, 

presented a paper at the 1994 

meeting of the Popular Culture/ 

American Culture Associations 

in Chicago in April. With 

co-presenter Janice 

Bailey-Goldschmidt, they spoke 

on “Richard Nixon and John 

Dean, the Conversation: March 

2 1, 1973 and the Negotiation of 

Information.” Kalfatovic was 

elected to Board of Directors, 

Graduate School of Library and 

Information Science, The 

Catholic University of America. 

At the Cooper Hewitt 

National Design 

Museum Branch 

Library the thirty-four 

volume Dictionary of 

Art will be the initial 

purchase from the Sister 

Parish Memorial Fund. 

The Branch Library will 

receive full sets of 

Christie’s auction 

catalogs gratis each 

Purc~hasetl &cYth g~fi,firnd.s donated by Ruth L. Webb, Tagebuch einer reise 

(Leip,-ig, 18.~8) i.s the 1853 diary o/‘the artist and topographer Heinrich B. 

Mollhau.~rr~ written 1t.17~17 he accompanied the Pacific Railroud Survey 

investigating a route ucross the country along the 35th parallel. 

year, thanks to the efforts of Jay Cantor of Christie’s. 
Fall/Winter 1994 Information Page 5 

Mary Livingston Ripley and Secretary Emeritus S. Dillon Ripley (seated) with Libraries’ Director Barbara 

J. Smith and David Challinor, Science Adviser to the Secretary, May 16, 1994 (Jeff Tinsley). In its first 

full year of operation, the S. Dillon Ripley Library Endowment, funded by numerous individual and 

foundation donors, enabled the Libraries to purchase over 125 notable books for sixteen of the Libraries’ 

eighteen branches. 

Departing_ Staff continued from page 2 

Association @LA), 1992-93, entitling her 

inaugural address, “Discover our Vision.” 

She had served in several other capacities for 

the SLA and as president of the Washington, 

D.C. Chapter. She also served on committees 

of the American Society for Information 

Science, as a delegate to the White House 

Conference on Libraries and Information 

Services (1990), and as a member of the 

National Commission on Libraries and 

Information Services (1971-1978). She 

earned her B.A. and M.S.L.S. at the Catholic 

University of America, and is a founder Andy 

member since 1979 of Friends of the 

Catholic University of America Library. She 

has received several awards and has published on aeronautics collections and 

aerospace awards. Ms. Scott joined SIL in 

1972 and has served as Librarian in the Air 

and Space Museum Branch and Librarian 

of the Museum Reference Center. 

Susan Gurney, Librarian, Horticulture 

Branch, left SIL after ten years of service. 

Mrs. Gurney was named Librarian when 

the branch was first established, and she 

helped to build and organize the collection to its present fine condition. Prior to 

joining SIL, she was head of reader 

services at the library of the Museum of 

American Art and the National Portrait 

Gallery. Mrs. Gurney earned her M.L.S. 

at University of Maryland and has 

published bibliographies on horticulture 

literature and art small-press and periodicals, and served as officer and committee 

member in ARLIS/NA, the art libraries 

association, and other professional 

associations. 

DONORS OF 

FINANCIAL 

SUPPORT IN 

FISCAL YEAR 

1994 

Donor’s names are 

not available online. 
Page 6 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES Fall/Winter 1994 

SHARES 

MEMBERSHIP 

In 1993, SIL became a special 

member of the Research 

Libraries Group (RLG), and 

participates in the RLG ShaRes 

program along with more than 

100 of the largest research 

libraries in the country. This 

program fosters resource sharing 

among its members by offering 

priority lending of books and 

journals, with expedited loan 

service to members. Being a 

ShaRes member enables the 

Smithsonian Libraries to offer its 

users more efficient and 

effective research support with 

direct access to these premiere 

library collections. By taking 

advantage of technology for 

access to a vast array of 

information resources that 

ShaRes has to offer, SIL is a key 

player in meeting our users’ 

informational needs. 

Martin A. Smith 

WORKSHOPS 

In May Preservation Services 

Department head Susan Biaine 

organized a regional meeting of 

preservation professionals which 

led to the formation of the 

Capitol Area Preservation 

Network (CAPNet). CAPNet 

will explore matters of mutual 

concern and develop needed 

programs. On June 9 SIL 

sponsored a workshop on 

“Copyright in the Age of 

Technology” by Professor Laura 

Gasaway of University of North 

Carolina Law Library for 

Libraries’ staff and invited staff 

from several institution offices. 

From Ownership to Access 

0 ne of the 

Association of 

Research Libraries’s 

(ARL) seven strategic 

program objectives is 

“to make access to 

research resources more 

efficient and effective.” 

As the Smithsonian 

Institution Libraries 

(SIL) and all other 

research libraries are 

facing greater demands 

to share their collections 

with other libraries, SIL 

is committed to sharing 

its materials. SIL is, for 

example, providing 

more “efficient and 

Interlibrav loan teum Carolyn Hahn, Martin A. Smith, Central Research 

Services Department head, Wanda Lynch, Polly Lasker, Jim Harrar, 

Claire Catron, and Michael Robinson (Carl Hansen) 

effective” supply of research material through its participation in the ShaRes Program of the 

Research Libraries Group (RLG). ShaRes participation has also opened to SIL the rich collections of the country’s major research libraries. 

The current demand for resource sharing is driven by greater patron awareness of resources 

outside of the home institution’s library collections, an awareness generated by the burgeoning 

number of electronic information sources on the Internet. The means by which libraries share 

resources is interlibrary loan. Libraries also obtain materials by document delivery. The term 

‘document delivery’ refers to the procurement of documents, both published and unpublished, 

by a library at the specific request of a user, usually through a vendor (private contractor) and at 

a cost. 

To improve efficiency and effectiveness further, SIL has centralized the administration of its 

interlibrary loan services. SIL’s processing of interlibrary loan requests has recently been 

streamlined by the use of electronic mail for placing requests, the implementation of the new 

SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) circulation system, and the 

improved searching capabilities recently adopted for its interlibrary loan system by the intemational database to which SIL contributes its records, OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). 

The introduction of electronic communications software that provides the means of sending 

high-quality photocopies between libraries has brought a rapid communications link for 

document delivery between the SIL’s centralized Loan Services and its out-of-town branches at 

the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the Republic of Panama, the Cooper-Hewitt 

National Design Museum in New York City, the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, 

Massachusetts and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center at Edgewater, Maryland. 

The present direction for SIL and its partners in ARL and RLG is toward increased cooperation 

in meeting user needs to meet the challenges of continuing inflation of the costs of books and 

journals and the increase in the sheer volume of available information. SIL sees its future in the 

RLG’s ShaRes program and the OCLC interlibrary loan system, and in developing cooperative 

lending agreements with area libraries, including the Library of Congress. 

Martin A. Smith 
Fall/Winter 1994 hformation Page 7 

News Digest IN BRIEF 

STUDENTWORKFORCEATSIL 

The Libraries is the Institution’s largest user of 

the Stay-in-School program, according to 

Montrose (Monty) Cones, the Institution’s 

coordinator for the program. At a recent pizza 

lunch hosted by the Libraries, Ms. Cones complimented SIL for its strong support of this program. 

The lunch program featured several SIL staff who 

informally explained to the Stay-in-School staff 

how and why they entered the field of library 

Exhibition loan - A 1764 Robert 

Adam book The Ruins of the 

Palace of the Emperor 

Diocletian in Cooper Hewitt 

National Design Museum 

Branch Library collections was 

loaned to the National Academy 

of Design in New York for an 

exhibition “European Master 

Drawings from the Collection of 

Peter Jay Sharp,” May 

25-August 28, 1994. 

Shown above with Dave Bartlett, Personnel 

service. The Libraries participates in both the Specialist, are Tom Weeden (left), Shelly 

Federal student employment program designed Ferguson (center) and Kerri Conner. 

for metropolitan-area full-time high school and 

college students who wish to gain work experience, and in the District of Columbia’s Mayor’s 

program, also for full-time students, with selection based on 

financial need. In the 1994 fall semester, SIL employed the 

following students: Kerrl Conner and Thomas Weeden, 

Planning and Administration Office; Shelly Ferguson, 

National Postal Museum Branch; Tomlyne Malcolm and 

Benin Noble, both at the National Museum of Natural 

History Branch; Chukwuemeka Olumba, National Air and 

Space Museum Branch; Mark Sandy, Anthropology Branch; 

Troy Seals, Acquisitions Services; Sheilah Spruill, National 

Museum of African Art Branch; and Christopher Stucky, 

Preservation Services. 

Libraries’ Director Barbara J. Smith welcomes reception 

crowd at opening of Balloons: The First Decade of Flight, 

1783-I 793, at Libraries Exhibition Gallery, Museum of 

American History, September 7, 1994. 

Smithsdan lnstibtisn 

Libraries 

Information is published 

semiannually to inform 

users and benefactors about 

SIL’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. 

Presatar Printing. Inc. 

Design rmd Production 

Printed on recycled paper. @ 

II II 

THE LIBRARIES NEEDS.. . 

l $160 for Alastair Duncan’s Paris Salons, 18951914, a 2-volume encyclopedia containing over 5,500 illustrations of art nouveau jewelry 

designs, with biographical information about 550 artists such as Boucheron, Chamet, Galle, and Lalique. 

l $225 to purchase Nehemiah Mason’s French and Indians of Illinois River. 2nd rev. ed. 1884. A contemporary resource for information on 

Indian relations with the French from the early 1800s containing valuable information on the fur trade. 

l $350 to buy a CD-ROM of Niles Register: Cumulative Index, 181 l-1849, providing a detailed index to this important early 19th-century journal 

for American business history. 

l @ $632 each, 4 Hayes modems (14.4 model), for connecting SIL branch libraries to the central Local Area Network. 

l $995 to buy a CD-ROM of Black Studies on Disc which contains the cumulative catalog of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black 

Culture of the New York Public Library, an invaluable resource for information on African-American, African, and African Diasporan studies, 

and a portion of G.K. Hall’s Index to Black Periodicals. 

To donate any of these items, contact the Libraries’ Development Officer Gwen Leighty at 202-786-2875. 
Page 8 SMITHSBNlAN INSTlTUTlBN LIBRARIES 

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Fall/Winter 1994 

END NOTES 

Calendar of Exhibitions 

SIL EXHIBITION GALLERY ’ 

National Museum of American History, first floor, west wing 

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

Through April 1, 1995 

Opening May 1995 

Balloons: The Birth of Flight, 1783-1793 

Tom Crouch and Alex Spencer, National Air and Space Museum, Curators 

. 

Science and the Artist’s Book 

co-sponsored with the Washington Project for the Arts 

Carol Barton and Diane Shaw, Curators 

with assistance from Ellen B. Wells and Robin F. Moore 

SIL LIBRARY HALL 

Through April 1995 Into the Blue: Ballooning Materials from the National Air and Space Museum Branch 

Paul K. McCutcheon and Dave Spencer, National Air and Space Museum Branch Library, with Valerie 

Epstein and Kathleen Cullen, Interns, Curators 

National Museum of Natural History, first floor, east hall 

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

Smithsonian Institution Libraries 

Natural History Building 22, MRC 154 

Washington, D. C. 20560