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Examples of federally funded publications in FY 1980 were [[underlined]] Material Culture of the Numa: The John Wesley Powell Collection, 1867-1880, Parasitic Copepods of Mackerel- and Tuna-like Fishes (Scombirdae) of the World, Cutting a Fashionable Fit: Dressmakers' Drafting Systems in the United States, [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] High Technology on Earth: Studies in Using Aerospace Systems and Methods. [[/underlined]]

Among 31 titles produced with trust funds during the year were: the long-awaited, four-volume set, [[underlined]] Arts in America: A Bibliography; The Great Gray Owl: Phantom of the Forest; Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raissonne of the Graphic Work; A Search for Environmental Ethics: An Initial Bibliography. [[/underlined]] Also published were three more [[underlined]] Scholars' Guides to Washington, D.C. [[/underlined]] in the series sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The guides help scholars locate materials in the Washington area pertaining to various subject matters. The three published this year covered materials available on Central and East Europe, Film and Video Collections, and Africa.

The Press, through federal appropriations, will continue to concentrate on publishing the results of scientific, cultural, and curatorial research associated with the collections and field operations. The Institution will continue to support the university press aspects of the operations through trust funds.

[[underlined]] Smithsonian Exposition Books. [[/underlined]] This office was established in 1977 to publish through trust support popular books based on Smithsonian collections and research. Six books have been published to date and have been sold primarily to Smithsonian Associates by direct mail.* They are also sold to the book trade through a prominent commercial distributor. In FY 1981 Exposition Books will produce [[underlined]] Fire of Life: The Smithsonian Book of the Sun, [[/underlined]] scheduled for publication in February. Development work is in progress on other books, whose eventual publication is subject to satisfactory market testing and approval by the Smithsonian Publishing Council. Exploratory work is also underway for a series of children's books as a possible joint endeavor with one of the major U.S. educational publishers.

Smithsonian Exposition Books has three immediate goals, intended to strengthen its operations and contribute to the Institution's publications program. The first is to refine and blend its new accounting system to meet institutional and commercial publishing industry practices. The second is to expand available projects dealing with more specific areas in collection and museum-related subject areas. The third is to broaden the market base and to expand readership beyond the Smithsonian Associates by pursuing distribution and co-publishing arrangements. Accomplishment of these goals will produce greater diffusion of knowledge.

[[underlined]] Public Service Resource Growth [[/underlined]]

In FY 1986, resources associated with the conduct of Public Service activities may reach approximately $15,100,000 from present levels of about

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*They are [[underlined]] The Smithsonian Experience, The Magnificent Foragers, The Book of Invention, A Zoo for All Seasons, The American Land, [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] Every Four Years. [[/underlined]]