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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: 202.633.4862
TTY: 202.357.2328
Fax: 202.610.3374
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/anacostia/ (launches new window)
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.

Museums 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/ (launches new window)
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.

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/ (launches new window)
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/ (launches new window)
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: 301.238.1370 (Reference desk)
Tel: 301.238.1376 (Librarian's office)
Fax: 301.238.3038
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/nmai/ (launches new window)
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 Postal Museum Library

National Postal Museum Library
National Postal Museum
2 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20560-0570
USA
Telephone: 202.633.5544
Fax: 202.633.9371
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/npm/ (launches new window)
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.