130 · ARL Statistics 2011–2012
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SMITHSONIAN, cont.
Library branches included: Smithsonian Institution Libraries has a total of 20 libraries located
throughout the museums and research institutes of the Smithsonian Institution: 1) National Air and
Space Museum Library, Washington, DC 2) National Museum of American History, Washington,
DC 3) National Museum of Natural History Library, Washington, DC 4) National Postal Museum
Library, Washington, DC 5) National Zoological Park Library, Washington, DC 6) Smithsonian
American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery Library, Washington, DC 7) Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center Library, Edgewater, Maryland 8) Anacostia Museum and Center
for African American History and Culture Library, Washington, DC 9) Botany and Horticulture
Library, Washington, DC 10) Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library, New York, NY 11)
Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Washington, DC 12) Earl S. Tupper Library
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama 13) Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur
M. Sackler Gallery Library, Washington, DC 14) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library,
Washington, DC 15) John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology, Washington, DC 16) Joseph
F. Cullman, 3rd, Library of Natural History, Washington, DC 17) Museum Studies and Reference
Library, Washington, DC 18) Museum Support Center Library, Suitland, MD 19) Vine Deloria
Jr. Library, National Museum of the American Indian, Suitland, MD and 20) Warren M. Robbins
Library, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC.
4 SI Libraries participated in several e-book trials, but did not purchase in 2012.
8 Due to 2011 buyout and 2011–12 retirements, 10 positions were vacated. Most were filled in 2012 but at
a lower cost.
11 Thirty percent is the benefit rate for Federal employees, who make up most of SI Libraries’ workforce.
The trust-funded rate is 29.5%.