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symposia of timely importance.  Unrestricted trust funds and private donations are planned to cover one-half the construction costs of the Quadrangle.

In a significant way, through the budget process, the Institution has redirected current federal resources to meet high priority needs and has applied unrestricted trust fund income as self-help contributions to maintain the administrative support balance and to strengthen programs of acquisition, research, and education.  Such efforts will continue to the best of the Institutions's ability given the pressures at work on the federal budget to reduce spending while public use of our services remains strong, and given the uncertainty surrounding the continued availability of unrestricted trust income from auxiliary and other activities.  Although the present revenues are encouraging, the Institution's management feels only guardedly optimistic about the next five-year projection of such income.  As in all business cycles, the public acceptance of the Institution's products or services, for example those performed by the National Associates, is speculative.  It is possible that in the next five years the Magazine, which is the most popular of the Associates' activities, may suffer a decline in its success contingent with the business cycle.  Similarly, purchases in the Institution's shops, sales of books or records, or the sale of other products issued as services through the Associates' activities may decline.  As with any such projections, therefore, it seem imperative that appropriate safeguards should be taken against the assumption that the expansion of these activities will continue in an unbroken progressive curve.

The Institution will continue to pursue the following principal objectives over the next five years.

[[underlined]]Objectives | [[underlined]]Principal Funding Source(s)[[/underlined]]

[[underlined]]Operations[[/underlined]]

1.  To open, equip and operate the Museum Support Center and the new Quadrangle facilities, including as an integral part of the Museum Support Center the development of a collections conservation and conservation training program. | Federal Appropriations and Nonappropriated Unrestricted Trust Funds

2.  To strengthen museum operations in the documentation and care of the collections through inventories, the future develop- | Federal Appropriations.