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The Smithsonian Archives uses automatic data processing extensively to sort various indexes to the Archives and to publish the [[underlined]] Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. [[/underlined]] Over the period 1982-86, computer usage will be expanded to include archival data on photographs and the development of a management information system to control processing and reference functions. The Archives also plans to improve its microfilm capability.

The Office of Exhibits Central will continue to provide its general and specialized exhibition production services for the Institution's museums. Intensified activity will result from planned renovation of the Federal City Exhibition, design, editing and production work for many new traveling exhibits, and from exhibits planned by the National Associates.

For the Office of Horticulture, new landscaped areas, including the Sensory Garden between the Hirshhorn Museum Building and the Arts and Industries Building, will create a need for an extension of services, as well as the landscaping associated with the Museum Support Center. This Office also in 1980 designed and installed the Victorian Horticulture and Floriculture Exhibition in the Arts and Industries Building. New efforts in exhibits, coupled with research and propagation efforts for special collections of rare and endangered floral species, will enhance the dimensions of the horticultural function in coming years. 

The Office of International Activities will support arrangements for research programs being planned in cooperation with Foreign scientific agencies and organizations and develop new programs to be carried out with similar organizations in the People's Republic of China.

A substantial increase in federal appropriations available to the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) is being planning for FY 1982-86 to help keep rental charges down for consumers of this popular service, to reduce the effects of inflation on production and transportation costs of traveling exhibits, and to strengthen the registrarial, education and publication functions of the program. SITES is computerizing many of its administrative functions, namely, shipping, scheduling, booking and facilities' reports. During FY 1980, the Institution began planning for circulating a series of major exhibition from abroad, and initial contacts have been made with several South American countries to encourage their use of SITES' offerings. In 1981 a SITES exhibition will visit six Australian cities. A major exhibition of American Impressionists is being organized by SITES to open in Paris in 1982 and then tour to three East European cities, with the cooperation of the ICA. The ability to attract major offerings from foreign countries and institutions is limited by the inability of the Institution to reciprocate with exhibitions organized primarily for showing abroad and by the lack of funds to pay for shipping such exhibitions. The Institution will continue to explore ways to overcome these obstacles in the years ahead.

[[underlined]] Museum Program Resource Growth [[/underlined]]

By FY 1986, Museum Programs resources may approach $16,200,000 from