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PUBLIC SERVICE

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Through its Public Service activities, the Institution has had considerable success in reaching national audiences over the last few years by means of publications, television and radio, lectures and conferences, live performances, and exhibition programs.  Public Service organizations include the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, the Division of Performing Arts, the International Exchange Service, the Office of Telecommunications, Smithsonian Exposition Books, the Smithsonian Institution press, [[underlined]]Smithsonian[[/underlined]] Magazine, and the Visitor Information and Associates Reception Center.

While organizationally part of the Institution's Public Service activities, the resources and programs of the Offices of Elementary and Secondary Education, and Symposia and Seminars, are contained in the Special Programs chapter to provide consistency with the FY 1981 budget presentation to Congress.  Also, the Magazine and its resources appear in the chapter devoted to Membership, Development, and Auxiliary Activities because of the general support it provides to many programs of the Institution, including the Associate Programs, through its revenue-producing activities.

Over the next five years, a principal objective will be to reach a more diverse and larger portion of the general public with the Institution's presentations, publications, and other public service activities.  The contents of programs and activities will emerge, as they have in the past, from accumulated Smithsonian expertise in science, history, and art, as well as the Institution's basic museum collecting and exhibiting activities.

One factor lending impetus to Public Service development over the past year or so has been the application of trust funds for educational outreach programs.  The application of these funds to Public Service programs is expected to continue over the coming five years, and the projects and activities will continue to originate from and be produced by various organizations throughout the Institution.  Such activities perform invaluable public service while at the same time relieving the taxpayer of the need for public appropriations.

[[underlined]]Current Resources and Support[[/underlined]]

Total resources in FY 1979 devoted to Public Service activities amount to about $10,097,000 and 121 full-time employees are at work in the various units.