The Schlesinger Library, which houses a collection of works on the history of women in America, will probably also be a target of new money. The center has grown rapidly in the past few years.

"There is not another Schlesinger anywhere in the world--the whole nation is coming to rest on our door, "Lyman said.

Patricia M. King, director of the Schlesinger Library, said yesterday that people have become aware of the historical value of women's papers as historians have taken more interest in poorly represented minorities.

The library, on which Radcliffe spent $180,000 last year, received a $134,000 grant in September from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop, over three years, archives on the career and family patterns of American women.

It also received a $99,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to compile transcripts of oral histories of black women now alive in America.

Radcliffe will seek special endowments and gifts for Radcliffe Institute fellowships, such as the artists in residence program, now paid for with general funds or outside grants, Gardiner said. Institute fellowships allow women to pursue independent research on a variety of subjects.

The Institute also runs a seminar program, covering a wide range of subjects, for women and men not in school and for undergraduates. The number of people enrolled in the seminars has more than tripled in the past three and a half years, including a small but increasing fraction of men.

The seminar program pays for itself with course fees , although the seminars are free for undergraduates.

For the next academic year, Radcliffe will officially split the Institute's fellowship and seminar programs into two separate college divisions. The two programs are already effectively split--the seminar program recently moved from their joint quarters to a new separate building.

The Office of the Arts, housed in the old Radcliffe Yard is funded jointly by Harvard and Radcliffe. Radcliffe created the office and originally funded it alone.

The creative and performing arts are a major priority in Radcliffe's budget, Wigglesworth said.

The Radcliffe trustees in November approved the hiring of a consulting firm to study the feasibility of the centennial fund drive. The firm, together with Radcliffe officials, will decide the amount to be sought and the areas where the collected money will be applied, Lyman said