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43 PUBLIC SERVICE [[line]] Through its Public Service activities, the Institution has had considerable success in reaching national audiences over the last few years by means of publications, television and radio, lectures and conferences, live performances, and exhibition programs. Public Service organizations include the Office of Telecommunications; the Smithsonian Institution Press, including the consolidation of Smithsonian Exposition Books, the Press' own popular book sales program, and the recordings development production and sales program of the Division of Performing Arts within the Press; [[underlined]] Smithsonian [[/underlined]] Magazine; and the Visitor Information and Associates Reception Center. While organizationally part of the Institution's Public Service activities, the resources and programs of the Offices of Elementary and Secondary Education, and Symposia and Seminars, are contained in the Special Programs chapter to provide consistency with the FY 1984 budget presentation to Congress. Also, the Magazine and its resources appear in the chapter devoted to Associates Programs because of the general support the Magazine provides to many programs of the Institution and because it is viewed as a major benefit to members of the Associates. Over the next five years, a principal objective will be to continue to reach a more diverse and larger portion of the general public with the Institution's Public Service activities. The contents of programs and activities will emerge, as they have in the past, from accumulated Smithsonian expertise in science, history and art, as well as the Institution's basic museum collecting and exhibiting activities. One factor lending impetus to public service development over the past few years has been the application of trust funds for educational outreach programs. The application of these funds to Smithsonian public service programs is expected to continue over the coming five years, and the projects and activities will continue to originate from and be produced by various organizations throughout the Institution. Such activities perform invaluable public services while at the same time reducing the requirements for federal appropriations. [[underlined]] Current Resources and Support [[/underlined]] Resources in FY 1982 devoted to Public Service activities amount of about $9,000,000 and 80 full-time employees who are at work in the various units.
