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development of automated security and information retrieval systems, and conservation programs.  In FY 1983 most major inventories, tailored to the needs of difference types of specimens and objects, will be completed, and collections to be relocated to the Museum Support Center will have been fully inventoried to enable immediate retrieval and use.

Federal Appropriations

3.  To improve the level of technical assistance and program funds which encourage original research by the Institution's professional staff in science, history, and art, priority is placed on stimulating innovative approaches to research through competition and outside peer evaluation, and through in-residence fellowships for senior and aspiring junior scholars, especially women and minorities. 

Federal Appropriations

4.  To develop contemporary exhibitions and exhibition techniques to communicate to the Institution's audiences recent discoveries, important ideas, and new results of scholarship in science, history, and art.

Federal Appropriations

5. To enhance the Institution's activities in national and international environmental conservation, research and education with emphasis on temperate and tropical biology, and on the conservation and study of endangered species.

Nonappropriated Unrestricted Trust Funds

6.  To continue to offer the nation  an outstanding magazine, and other quality publications on subjects within the Institution's responsibilities; to utilize the latest technologies and methods to proved radio programs, recordings, and television presentations.

Federal Appropriations, Nonappropriated Unrestricted

7.  To strengthen the National Collections for research and exhibitions through the