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increased funding for acquisitions.  The problem of the extraordinary inflation in the prices of works of art of all kinds is discussed at length in the FY 1982 budget sunmission to the Office of Management and Budget, and in the Special Programs chapter of this prospectus, for a federally supported Major Acquisition Program.  There is a need to increase annual allocations for acquisitions to enable the museums to make on a planned, regular basis important purchases for the national collections which fill in gaps and help maintain full and representative coverage in all subject areas.

To meet the goals outlined for the next five years, it will be necessary throughout History and Art to add staff positions, primarily in collections management and conservation, exhibitions, and education.  To this end, budgetary adjustments within bases will be made and some new resources, both federal and trust, will be sought.

[[underlined]] Collections Inventory [[/underlined]].  Very high priority continues to be given to the inventory of the collections.  At the Museum of History and Technology, inventories have been completed in seven divisions, with projects started in eleven other collecting areas.  Approximately 183,000 objects have been recorded since FY 1979.  Plans call physical inventory of the collections to be completed by the end of FY 1983.

Inventory of the collections at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum continues on schedule with plans for completion also by the end of FY 1983.  The technical staff has been working in all areas of the collections, and to date, the following have been inventoried and the data entered into the computer:  some 6,500 samples of wallpapers, 18,000 objects in the Decorative Arts Department, and 46,000 prints and drawings.

Plans call for the highest standards of collection control t be achieved in all History and Art bureaus by the end of the inventory process.  As part of this effort, three Institution-wide surveys are being conducted of prints and drawings, decorative arts, and photographs.  These objects are collected and preserved by several Smithsonian museums, and centrally available information about them will improve their usefulness to Smithsonian staff, outside scholars, and the interested public.  This next year, a guide to the prints and drawings in the Smithsonian's collections will be published, and a similar guide to the decorative arts will be published in 1982.  The pilot study for a survey of the photograph collections will be completed in December 1980, and the full survey should commence in 1981.

[[underlined]] Museum of African Art [[/underlined]].  The Smithsonian's newest museum formally became part of the Institution on August 13, 1979.  Approximately $1,000,000 in federal funds annually should prove sufficient to operate a full range of museum programs, as augmented by continued fund-raising efforts from the private sector which have been vital to the success of the Museum to date.  Consonant with Senate views, in which the Institution concurs, a new location for the Museum is identified within the comprehensive development of the Quadrangle south of the Smithsonian Building.  Extensive fund-raising efforts are being devoted toward the realization of this important construction project, for which federal authorizing and appropriations bills will also be sough in FY 1982.  Necessary steps are being taken to assure the safety of