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The
NMNH Main Location collects scholarly, highly technical and
research-oriented materials in cross-disciplinary topics within
the general areas of interest to the NMNH. It contains about 120,000
items on general science, biology, ecology, evolution, biodiversity,
geology, paleontology, conservation and other subjects. There are
over 540 journal subscriptions and a large number of journals received
on exchange. The Main Branch (Room 51) and its sublocations are
located in the Natural History Building. For information on or access
to any of the collections, call (202) 633-1680.
The
Entomology collection (Room E532)
contains over 23,000 volumes, including 120 journal subscriptions,
on insect systematics, ecology, behavior, and related areas. The
collection is heavily weighted in the areas of taxonomy and anatomy
of insects and related arthropods, especially arachnids.
The
Invertebrate Zoology cluster of
libraries focuses on the systematics and taxonomy, morphology, anatomy
and physiology, marine ecology and distribution, genetics and evolution,
and paleobiology of their respective subject groups. The Invertebrate
Zoology core collection (Room W218a) holds over 5000 items,
including approximately 27 journal subscriptions and includes Echinoderms,
Coelenterates and Worms. The Copepods section (Room W106)
holds approximately 80 monographs. The Crustacea section
(Room W119) holds approximately 2,100 items, including 6 journal
subscriptions. The Mollusks collection (Room W312) incorporates
the gift of the William Healy Dall Library and contains about 7,000
volumes and 56 journal subscriptions on recent and fossil malacology,
including Bivalvia, Gastopoda and Cephalopoda.
The
Mineral Sciences collection (Room E435-B) contains about
8,500 volumes and 45 journal subscriptions and focuses on mineralogy,
gemmology, volcanology, meteorites, petrology, and geochemistry.
The
Vertebrate Zoology
cluster focuses on the systematics, taxonomy, anatomy and physiology,
ecology and distribution, and evolution of their respective subject
groups. The Birds collection (Room E607) holds over 10,000
volumes, including approximately 100 journal subscriptions. The
Fishes collection (Room WG11) holds over 8,000 volumes, including
106 journal subscriptions on fish biology. The Mammals collection
(Room 398) contains about 4,500 volumes, including 40 journal subscriptions.
The Reptiles (and amphibians) collection (Room W207) holds
approximately 3,500 volumes, including 35 journal subscriptions.
The
Remington Kellogg Library of Marine Mammalogy contains about
1,800 books and bound journals on all aspects of fossil and living
marine mammals, including paleontology, morphology and phylogeny.
The Vertebrate Paleontology collection holds over 1,800 volumes
focusing on physical geography, stratigraphy and systematic paleontology
and paleozoology of chordates and vertebrates of the Paleozoic,
Mesozoic, Tertiary, and Quaternary periods. These two collections
are now housed in E101/102.
The
Cooper Reading Room (E208) contains about 250 volumes on general
geology, invertebrate paleobiology, historical geology, paleontology
and other subjects. Nothing is being added to this collection.
The
NMNH Main Library and its satellite locations all have strong collections
of 19th- and 20th-century literature (thanks in part to the gifts
of early Smithsonian curators). Pre-1840 titles are accessible in
the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, with is part
of the Special Collections Department, SIL.
Complementary
Collections
Related
SIL collections outside the Natural History Library can be found
within NMNH in the Botany and Anthropology Branch libraries and
outside of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute, the Smithsonian Environmental Research
Center, the National Zoological Park, and the Museum Support Center.
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