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To be pursued primarily through Federal appropriations

1) Improvement of support functions. For the future, significant emphasis will continue to be placed on protection, conservation, and facilities management. Computer services are now being studied to obtain a better definition of needs.

2) Improvement of collections management, including the development of new construction such as the National Museum of History and Technology library addition and the Museum Support Facility. Registration, documentation and improved accessibility to collections will be emphasized.

To be pursued primarily through Federal appropriations and Federal grants and contracts.

3) Development of new emphases and directions in research, including interbureau activities. The Secretary has requested consideration of the endangered species theme as potentially productive of research support.

To be pursued primarily through Federal appropriations and private gifts, endowments and revenues.

4) Acquisitions for the museum collections in history, art and science.

5) Continuation and redevelopment of exhibition programs throughout the museums of the Institution, to include traveling exhibitions. Interdisciplinary exhibits looking toward the future will receive Institutional emphasis.

6) Expansion of fellowship and internship availability in all bureaux.

To be pursued primarily through private gifts, endowments and revenues.

7) Extension of educational resources of the Smithsonian to the local and national public.

8) Opening and operation of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

Clearly it will not be possible to achieve all these objectives fully and simultaneously. It would probably be a dissipation of effort to attempt to give them all equal attention in any one year's operating program, particularly under the restrictions cited in the preceding section on the financial environment. Bureaux and offices must decide individually how they wish to plan and approach their own goals, and