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The slide library of the educational department has a total of 47,624 

 slides in its permanent and lending collections. During the year 1,942 

 slides were added to the collections. Altogether, 458 persons borrowed 

 a total of 11,494 slides from the collections. It is estimated that these 

 slides were seen by 21,420 viewers. 



Members of the staff participated in outside activities delivering 

 lectures, teaching courses in local schools at night, and attending 

 College Art Association meetings. Staff members prepared and re- 

 corded scripts for Lectour recordings and radio talks, and prepared the 

 material for the school tour program and the slide lendmg program. 



A printed calendar of events was prepared and distributed monthly 

 to a mailing list of more than 7,900 names. 



EXTENSION SERVICES 



The office of extension services, mider the direction of the curator of 

 the Index of American Design, Grose Evans, circulated to the public 

 traveling exhibitions, films, slide lectures, and filmstrip sets of works 

 of art in the National Gallery of Art's collections. There are 44 travel- 

 ing exhibits in circulation, lent free of charge except for shippmg 

 expenses. These were circulated in 399 bookings and were seen by 

 an estimated 199,500 viewers. Eleven special exhibits, lent to a church 

 organization for circulation in 96 bookings, were seen by 37,552 viewers. 

 Thirteen copies each of exhibits were lent to 13 New York State schools, 

 having a total of 13,768 students — estimated viewers, 55,072. Two films 

 on the National Gallery were circulated in 17 1 bookings and were seen 

 by an estimated 51,300 viewers. A total of 1,174 slide lecture sets were 

 circulated in 3,435 bookings and were seen by an estimated 206,100 

 viewers. The extension service reached approximately 549,524 persons 

 during the year; this is an increase of 164,964 over the number of per- 

 sons served last year. 



The curator of the Index prepared the texts for the slide lectures 

 and new circulating exhibits ; also he attended conferences to demon- 

 strate the extension services and to keep abreast of new developments 

 in the audiovisual field. 



LIBRARY 



During the year the library, under the supervision of Kuth E. Carl- 

 son, accessioned 3,724 publications, of which 3,548 were obtained 

 through exchange, by gift, or purchased from private funds. 

 Government funds were used to purchase 23 books and 26 subscriptions 

 to periodicals, and for the binding of 127 volumes of periodicals. A 

 total of 2,373 photographs were added to library stock and to the 

 archives and were acquired by exchange or purchased from private 

 funds. 



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