Overview | Staff

Annually, the Acquisitions Services Department processes orders and payments for 7,000 monographs, 3,300 serial subscriptions, and a variety of nonprint media for SIL's nineteen branch libraries. The ten staff members also provide acquisitions services to other Smithsonian units such as the Woodrow Wilson Center and Smithsonian libraries outside the Libraries' system. The Gifts & Exchange (G&E) section maintains publication exchange arrangements with over 4,000 institutional partners worldwide. The G&E unit receives annually an average of over 7,000 books and journal subscriptions as gifts. The department also manages the Libraries' Translations Program which seeks out and makes available, in English, foreign language titles of scientific significance.