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About the Libraries
NMNH Main Library
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 CE-100) and its sublocations are located in the Natural History Building. For information on or access to any of the collections, call (202) 633-1680 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu . Entomology Library ...[Home Page]
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.
Invertebrate Zoology Libraries ...[Home Page]
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 W333) 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 (MSC C-2000) holds approximately 2,100 items, including 6 journal subscriptions. The Mollusks collection (Room W333) 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.
Vertebrate Zoology Libraries ...[Home Page]
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 W218A) 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.
Mineral Sciences Library and Cooper Reading Room
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 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 Remington Kellogg Library of Marine Mammalogy and the Vertebrate Paleontology Libraries
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.
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