Smithsonian Institution Libraries Research Annex

The repository features a modern reading room with connections for laptops and cameras, and a microform reader. Researchers must call or email Mike Hardy in advance of any visit to ensure materials are available for viewing.

The collection is a general collection of unique items (8,000 monographs and 245,000 volumes of serial holdings) with broad strengths in the following areas:

• 19^th & 20^th century travel and exploration narratives, original and reprints
• Anthropology foreign language journals
• Arabic language science and medical tracts reprints
• Applied sciences and technology, particularly foreign language titles
• Transportation, especially automotive and rail
• Presidential Papers series
• Extractive industries, chiefly mining
• Museum reports from all over the world, notablyEurope
• Auction catalogs, chiefly from Sotheby’s and Christie’s
• Robert P. Anderson Collection of Easter Island archival materials
• SAMS Photofacts collection
• 19^th and 20^th century photography serials
• Culinary Historians of Washington (CHoW) collection
• Washington Post and Washington Star microform holdings
• Dissertation abstracts in microform
• Smithsonian publications, including the bulletins of the National Museum, annual reports for both the Institution and the National Museum, Contributions to Knowledge series, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection
• Modern Art
• NASM Library Aerospace Legacy Reports Collection
• Photography
• Veterinary Medicine
• Zalesch Mail Order Catalogs Collection
• Geology
• Horticulture