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for additional space (such as that proposed for the rare books and other library needs in the South Quadrangle development), altering existing space in the Museum of Natural History to make it more usable, and creating some space for library functions in the Museum Support Center.

The recent decision of the Library of Congress to close its catalogue in response to revised Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules requires that the Institution begin immediately to adjust to the new rules and the new system at the Library of Congress.

The Institution will strengthen the rare book program through selective additions to the Libraries' current holdings. Increased funds for book purchases will be sought through the regular appropriations process. When unique opportunities arise, trust funds will be used for acquisitions of rare books and trade catalogues.

Library operations can be improved and made more efficient by installing new and advanced automated computer technologies. The ordering process, now party automated, will be substantially completed during 1980 as the first component of the total on-line system. Other components, such as gift and exchange processing, and serial record and accounting, will be developed and made effective by 1983. Additional applications of the new technologies will affect the machine-readable catalogue system mentioned earlier, and on-line searching of external and internal bibliographic data bases covering a wide range of subjects of institutional interest. To avoid duplication, non-Smithsonian systems, such as the Ohio College Library Center and the Library of Congress data base, will be studied carefully. It is anticipated that these techniques will produce significant economies in time and money and will lessen the need for clerical support. They will require a more technically knowledgable staff. To this end, the Libraries will plan and conduct in-house training programs and other staff development activities to assure full participation for shifts in staff assignment.

In preparation for wider application of computer technologies and to meet the objective of providing more timely and comprehensive informational services for its users, the Libraries will develop some of its own internal data bases for subjects inadequately covered in existing abstracting and indexing systems. Data bases similar to the National Air and Space Museum index to periodicals and other literature will be developed in fields, such as museology, which in turn will be interfaced with the Conservation Analytical Laboratory data base and made part of the on-line access system. By 1982 plans call for the addition of seven cathode ray tube terminals with printers to be located where the greatest demand exists.

The Libraries plans include the accommodation of requirements of new and expanded institutional programs and activities scheduled to occur during the coming five-year period. These include establishing library