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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/ (launches new window)
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/ (launches new window)

Museum Support Center Library

Museum Support Center Library
4210 Silver Hill Road, MSC Rm, C-2000
Suitland, Maryland 20746-2863
Telephone: 301.238.1026
Fax: 301.238.3661
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/msc/ (launches new window)
The Museum Support Center is a museum collections management facility designed for the purposes of collections storage, research, and conservation.

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/ (launches new window)
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 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/ (launches new window)
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 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/ (launches new window)
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/ (launches new window)
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.