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do SO. Assistance in the form of lectures, answers to inquiries, and 

 special tours of certain museum areas was rendered to college and 

 university groups visiting the Institution and to other groups and in- 

 dividuals from the United States and abroad, visiting or planning to 

 visit the Smitlisonian in a professional capacity. Mr. Lindsay served 

 as consultant on museum organization and practices to representatives 

 from other museums on several occasions. 



Arrangements were made through the Museum Service for Smith- 

 sonian participation in the workshop on community resources spon- 

 sored by the University of Maryland. Through the facilities of this 

 workshop, a 5-day program outlining the history of the Institution 

 and the work of the various Smithsonian museum and research 

 bureaus was presented to 42 graduate students from the University 

 of Maryland. Tliis workshop has, since its inception in 1958, pro- 

 vided an opportunity for more than 200 local school teachers and 

 university faculty members to become acquainted with cultural re- 

 sources of the Institution of value in school curricula. 



A radio lecture system has been installed in nine halls and in the 

 rotunda of the Musemn of Natural History, under the direction of the 

 Museum Service. These lectures, written by the assistant curator, 

 Mrs. Sophy D. Burnham, in cooperation with the various subject 

 specialists involved, provide background information about the 34 

 major areas of the halls included in the system. 



The Museum Service cooperated with WTOP-TV to produce the 

 television program "The World of Mammals" and with WMAL-TV 

 to produce the television film "The History of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution." It also arranged for loans of objects to the Greater Wash- 

 ington Educational Television Association for several of their educa- 

 tional television programs and for spot announcements of the Junior 

 League guided tours of the Smithsonian. 



Through the Museum Service, distribution of certain duplicate 

 specimens and objects from the United States National Museum was 

 made to the Overbrook School for the Blind for use in that school's 

 training of blind children. Special "touch" exhibits and demonstra- 

 tions were arranged for a visiting group from the Perkins Institute for 

 the Blind, Watertown, Mass. 



Mrs. Janet Stratton of the Museum Service staff directed the in- 

 stallation of the exhibit "Jazz Memorabilia," shown in the rotunda 

 of the Arts and Industries Building in connection with the Jazz Fes- 

 tival sponsored by the President's Music Committee of the People-to- 

 People program. 



The program for visitor orientation to Smithsonian Museums was 

 continued through the installation of two floor plans and directories 



