Evening star., 1939-02-27
Changes al Library
Shown in Report
OF Dr.. Putnam
Departments Transfer
Covered in PIuns
TotuIinq 482 Pages
Bv JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

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By JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
DR.. Herbert Putnam, librarian of
Congress, in his annual report, re-
leased today, tells of changes in ar
rangements being effected in "the
largest photographic establishment
in the world
The card division. with its stock
of more than 100000,000 printed
catalogue cards. DR.. Putnam explains,
already has been removed from the
main building to the annex. Other
departments to be transferred are
the copyright Office, the binding and
printing Office, the Smithsonian de-
post. the accession. catalogue. CO.
Operative catalogue and classification
divisions, and the photoduplication
service. with its laboratory of micro
photography.
DR.. Putnam says: LAS between
the annex and the main building.
the general subdivision of the COL
lections will be as follows: To the
annex. the groups embracing bib
biography, agriculture, technology
medicine and science; bound files of
newspapers (some $4,000 volumes)
official documents of foreign coun-
tries with certain exceptions, and
certain bound serials-for example,
trade journals. Retained within the
main building, history. geography,
the fine arts, philosophy, philology,
religion, general literature, the
Semitic, Slavic and Oriental collec-
tions and other smaller groups
within the humanities."
Shift of Periodical Division.
The periodical division, the lbrar-
ian announces, will be removed from
the main floor of the main building
% the basement formerly occupied
by the copyright Office. Similarly,
the law division, the legislative ref
erence service and the State law
index will be accommodated in the
south end of the main floor, the two
corner pavilions and part of the
present catalog room, bringing those
three services into convenient juXta-
position at the points in the main
building geographically nearest to
the Capitol and Office buildings"
For the manuscript division and
music division the entire length of
the north wings of their respective
levels will be made available The
Oriental division will be extended
to the northeast attic pavilion and
portions of the southeast stack,
where the headquarters of the divi-
sion of documents also will be
housed.
DR.. Putnam indicates that the re-
naming space now occupied by the
catalog division will be designated
for reading room serving especially
material in political and social SCI
erce, while spaces currently occu-
pied by the accession and classical
ton divisions will be assigned for
reading room for history and its
auxiliaries. and general literature.
the two rooms constituting annexes
OF the main reading room.
The northeast pavilion on the
main floor is to be dedicated to
poetry and drama.
Present plans contemplate con-
version of the former Smithsonian
stack into a gallery suitable for
special collections of distinction to
be maintained as units, the librarian
suggests.
The room until lately occupied by
the card division, DR.. Putnam re-
ports, has now been remodeled,
under designs by Paul Cret, as a
center for the accommodation and
use of our Spanish, Portuguese and
Latin American collections. On the
further wall of the reading space
tablet recognizes the contributory
relation with its prospective COL
lection and service. of the Hispanic
Society of America. through it's
president, Archer M. Huntington.
1t reads: The Hispanic Foundation
In the Library of Congress: This
center for the pursuit of studies
In Spanish, Portuguese and Latin
American culture has been estab-
lished with the generous cooper
alton Of the Hispanic Society of
America in extension of its service
to learning"
For music. the librarian chroni-
cles the grift of S33,50O by Mrs.
Gertrude Clarke Whittall for
room, 80 by so feet, in the north
court to shelter the Stradivari in
struments previously given by the
same donor and to perfect our
resources for the accommodation and
pleasure" of guests attending con-
certs
Other Gifts Acknowledged.
DR.. Putnam also acknowledges the
benefaction of Miss Annie-May
Hegeman, who recently gave the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Kirke Porter. at Sixteenth
and I streets NV, to the Library
and the Smithsonian Institute.
Other gifts listed by the librarian
include: A bequest from the late
Herbert Witherspoon. formerly man.
ager of the Metropolitan Opera Co.,
for material to be added to the
music division; grants from the
Rockefeller Foundation. the Car
f1egie Corp. and the American Coun-
Gil of Learned Societies. and pre3en-
tations from the Earl of Beaucha4np.
the Boy Scouts of Rumania. Rear
Admiral Lloyd H. Chandler, Walter
P. Chrysler. Mrs. A. j. Daugherty,
DR.. William NJ Gamble and Miss
Anna Dill Gamble, Sir Stephen
Gaselee, Maj. Gouverneur Hoes,
Mrs. Charles Isham "a granddaugh-
ter of Abraham Lincoln), Prince
Youssouf Kamal, Vance c. McCor-
mick. Max Rabinoff, Mrs. Arthur