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Admiral
Dewitt Clinton Ramsey Room
Access
to the Ramsey Room is by appointment only and can by arranged
by calling the Air and Space Museum Branch Library at 202.633.2320.
Housed
in the National Air and Space Museum, this facility is named in
honor of Admiral Dewitt Clinton Ramsey. Materials contained in
the Ramsey Room relate to the history of flight, ballooning, rocketry,
aerospace, space flight, and some unusual science fiction.
Anacostia
Museum and Center for African American History and Culture Library
Anacostia
Museum and Center for African American History and Culture Library
Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and
Culture
1901 Fort Place SE
Washington, DC 20020-0520
USA
Telephone: 202.287.3381
TTY: 202.357.2328
Fax: 202.287.3183
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/anacostia/
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The Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History
and Culture Branch Library has over 3,500 books, and close to
100 periodical titles in various formats. It
actively collects materials relating to the history and culture
of the African diaspora in the Western hemisphere. Subject area
strengths include the Upper South, African American women, slavery
and abolitionism, and religion and the African American community.
Anthropology
Library
National
Museum of Natural History,
10th Street and Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20560-0112
USA
Telephone: 202.633.1640
Fax: 202.357.1896
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/Anth/
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The Anthropology Library is the product of a century and a half
of building in support of museum collections and the pursuits
of its staff. It contains approximately 80,000 print volumes,
including over 400 serial titles, a large number of microforms,
smaller collections of CD-ROMs, audio cassettes, slides, and the
like, as well as electronic links to other information sources.
Botany
and Horticulture Library
Botany and Horticulture Library
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/bothort/
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Cooper-Hewitt,
National Design Museum Library (New York, N.Y.)
Cooper-Hewitt,
National Design Museum Branch
2 E. 91st Street
New York, NY 10128-9990
Tel: 212.849.8330
Fax: 212.849.8339
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/chm/
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The Library, known since 1976 as The Doris and Henry Dreyfuss
Study Center, contains 60,000 volumes which document and support
the Museum's collection of 250,000 objects in decorative arts
including textiles, wall coverings, metalwork, furniture, ceramics,
glass, jewelry, and prints and drawings.
Dibner
Library of the History of Science and Technology
Dibner
Library
12th St. and Constitution Ave. NW
NMAH 1041
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560-0672
Phone: 202.633.3872
Fax: 202.633.9102
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/Dibner/
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The
Dibner Library is the Smithsonian’s collection of rare books
and manuscripts relating to the history of science and technology.
Contained in this world-class collection of 25,000 rare books
and 2,000 manuscript groups are many of the most important works
dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries in the history
of science and technology including engineering, transportation,
chemistry, mathematics, physics, electricity, and astronomy.
Freer
Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library
Freer
and Sackler Library
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
1050 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20560-0112
USA
Telephone: 202.633.0477
Fax: 202.786.2936
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.asia.si.edu/visitor/library.htm
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Today, the library is the finest Asian art library in the United
States. It contains approximately 80,000 monograph volumes and
1,400 serials titles. Almost half of its printed resources are
in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. The library's collection is especially
strong in research materials on Japanese ceramics, painting, and
woodblock prints.
Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden Library
Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden
7th Street at Independence Avenues, S.W.
Washington, DC 20560
Telephone: 202.633.2773
Fax: 202.786.2682
E-mail: hmsglibmail@si.edu
Website:
http://www.hmsg.si.edu/education/research.html
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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library, founded in
1969, is a research collection devoted to modern and contemporary
painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, and to a lesser degree
photography, video, and emerging art forms. The Library has books
and related materials (exhibition catalogs, auction catalogs,
serials, and ephemeral material) from 1880 to the present, reflecting
the artists in the museum collection and its exhibition program.
Joseph
F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History
Cullman
Library
NHB CE-G15
10th & Constitution Ave. NW
Smithsonian Institution
Washington DC 20560
Telephone: 202.633.1184
Fax: 202.633.0219
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/cullman/
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The Cullman Library holds the Smithsonian's collection of rare
books in anthropology and the natural sciences. Its world-class
collection contains approximately 10,000 volumes published before
1840 in the fields of physical and cultural anthropology, ethnology,
Native American linguistics, and archeology; botany; ornithology,
mammalogy, herpetology, ichthyology, entomology, malacology, and
other zoological fields; paleontology; and geology and mineralogy.
Museum
Studies Reference Library
National
Museum of Natural History, Room 27
10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Tel: 202.633.1700
Fax: 202.786.2443
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/msrl/
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The Museum Studies Reference Library has more than 28,000 books,
over 280 periodical titles, as well as multi-media material. Subject
areas covered include museum operations, museum organization,
administration and management, and programs. The MSRL collection
also contains the most recent editions of reference works.
Museum
Support Center Library
Museum
Support Center Library
4210 Silver Hill Road, MSC Rm, C-2000
Suitland, Maryland 20746-2863
Telephone: 301.238.3666
Fax: 301.238.3661
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/msc/
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The Museum Support Center is a museum collections management facility
designed for the purposes of collections storage, research, and
conservation.
National
Air and Space Museum Library
National
Air and Space Museum Library
National Air & Space Museum, Room 3100
6th Street & Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20560-0314
USA
Telephone: 202.633.2320
Fax: 202.786.2835
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/nasm/
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The National Air and Space Museum Branch Library houses more than
29,000 books, 11,000 bound serials, and a microform collection.
The scope of the collections covers aeronautics and astronautics,
the history of aviation and space flight, astronomy, and Earth
and planetary sciences.
National
Museum of American History Library
National
Museum of American History Branch Library, Room 5016
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560-0630
Tel: 202.633.3865
Fax: 202.357.4256
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/nmah/
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The NMAH Branch Library houses more than 120,000
books, 45,000 volumes of bound serials, representing about 300
current and 3,000 noncurrent titles. The microform collections
contain 500 titles totaling approximately 8,000 reels of microfilm
and 20,000 microfiche. At the broadest level, the NMAH Branch
Library collections are concerned with the history of science
and technology and its impact on both the American scene and the
everyday life of Americans.
National
Museum of the American Indian Library (Suitland, Maryland)
National
Museum of the American Indian Library
4220 Silver Hill Road
Suitland, MD 20746
Tel: 301.238.6624 x6329 (Reference desk)
Tel: 301.238.6624 x6620 (Librarian's office)
Fax: 301.238.3038
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/nmai/
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The NMAI Library's growing collection currently consists of over
6,000
volumes, including periodicals. The Library collects comprehensively
in all areas relating to the indigenous peoples of the Western
Hemisphere and Hawaii, including history, ethnology, religion,
art, oral tradition, education, language, literature, biography,
archaeology, and contemporary issues. Also collected are current
publications, e.g., newspapers and newsletters, produced by Native
groups.
National
Museum of Natural History Library
National
Museum of Natural History Library
National Museum of Natural History Building, Rm. 51
10th and Constitution Ave, N.W.
Washington, DC 20560 USA
Telephone: 202.633.1680
Fax: 202.357.1896
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/nmnh/
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The National Museum of Natural History Library consists of the
Main Location and 15 specialized collections throughout the National
Museum of Natural History building. These collections are located
within the Department of Systematic Biology (Entomology, Invertebrate
Zoology, and Vertebrate Zoology), Mineral Sciences and Paleobiology.
National
Postal Museum Library
National
Postal Museum Library
National Postal Museum
2 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20560-0570
USA
Telephone: 202.633.9370
Fax: 202.633.9371
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/npm/
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Although the resources at the National Postal Museum Library focus
on the postal history and philately of the United States, the
collections are international in scope. Europe, North America
and Australia are particularly well represented. The Library has
more than 5,000 books, 6,000 serial titles, manuscript files,
photographs and many auction and stamp catalogues.
National
Zoological Park Library
National
Zoological Park
3000 Block of Connecticut Avenue
Education Building-Visitor Center
Washington, D.C. 20008
Telephone: 202.673.4771
Fax: 202.673.4900
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/nzp/
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The NZP Library houses a collection of more than 5,000 books and
185 serial titles on zoos and aquariums, animal behavior, husbandry,
veterinary medicine, pathology, genetics, nutrition, wildlife
conservation, biodiversity, and horticulture. The library also
has a special collection (called the Zooiana Collection) of publications
from other zoos and aquariums such as animal collection inventories,
annual reports, guidebooks and miscellaneous pamphlets. Extensive
collections of zoo and animal-related bibliographies and NZP staff
publications are also located in the library.
Smithsonian
American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library
Smithsonian
American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library
Victor Building, Suite 2100
750 9th St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. DC 20560-0975
USA
Telephone: 202.633.8230
Fax: 202.633.8232
Email:libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/aapg/
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The collection of 150,000 books, exhibition catalogs, catalogues
raisonnes, serials and dissertations is concentrated in the area
of American art, history, and biography with supportive materials
on European art.
Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center Library (Edgewater, Maryland)
Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center
647 Contees Wharf Road/ P. O. Box 28
Edgewater, MD 21037
Telephone: 443.482.2273
Fax: 443.482.2286
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/serc/
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The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Branch Library houses
a collection of approximately 7,500 monographs and bound journals
(118 journals are currently subscribed to), microfilm, fiche,
and videos. These materials support the scientific and educational
research in the following broad areas: global change; landscape
ecology; coastal ecosystems; population and community ecology,
with emphasis on the Chesapeake Bay and its surrounds.
Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute Library (Republic of Panama)
Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute Library
Unit 0948
APO AA 34002-0948
(USA)
or
Biblioteca
Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales
Apartado Postal 2072
Balboa, Ancón
República de Panamá
Tel.
507.212.8042
Fax 507.212.8147
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/stri/
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The STRI Branch collects research, research-oriented, academic
and highly technical materials in: animal behavior, anthropology,
archaeology, biodiversity, bioprospection, bryology, canopy studies,
conservation of the tropics, coral reefs, ecotourism, educational
and outreach programs, entomology, evolution, geology, global
change, herpetology, history of natural history, indigenous groups,
long-term monitoring projects, mammology, marine invertebrates,
molecular biology, nature legislation, ornithology, paleoecology,
pharmacognosy, plant physiology, plant taxonomy, phycology, primatology,
natural and protected areas, research policy, and the Panama Canal
and its watershed.
Thomas
A. Bradley Room
Access
to the Bradley Room is by appointment only and can be arranged
by calling the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Branch Library at 212.860.6887.
Located
at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City,
this library contains rare materials on interior design, architecture,
juvenile literature, decorative arts, and landscape design, as
well as a collection of pop-up books.
Warren
M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art
National
Museum of African Art Library
National Museum of African Art, Rm. 2138
950 Independence Avenue SW
Washington, D.C. 20560-0708
USA
Telephone: 202.633.4680
Fax: 202.357.4879
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/nmafa/
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The Warren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art
has more than 27,000 volumes and covers all aspects of African
visual arts, including sculpture, painting, printmaking, pottery,
textiles, crafts, popular culture, photography, architecture,
rock art, and archaeology.
OTHER
LOCATIONS
North
Capitol Street Annex
OTHER
INFORMATION RESOURCES AT THE SMITHSONIAN
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