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ent of rhe 1999 ASCAP Foundation Lifetime Achievement 

 Award. The award is a tribute to veteran music creators who, 

 over the years, have made significant conttibutions to the 

 nation's music culrure, and Ella was the first recipient in the 

 field of children's music, as well as the first woman honoree. 



August 



■ Construction contract The Office of Contracting awarded a 

 construction contract to Twin Towers Enterprises for the 

 fourth floor renovations and windows replacement at the 

 Carnegie Mansion and Miller Fox Townhouse of the Cooper- 

 Hewitt, National Design Museum. 



August 



■ Donation The Smithsonian Libraries received a signifi- 

 cant donation from Mrs. Gail D. Kaufmann of 11 rare 

 volumes, dating from 1585 to 1843 and relating to medi- 

 cine. Collected by her physician parents in Czechoslovakia, 

 the volumes have been added to the research collections of 

 the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. 



August 1 



■ Exhibition The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery opened an ex- 

 hibition, titled "Yoshida Hiroshi: Japanese Prints of India 

 and Southeast Asia." The 32 woodblock prints on display, 

 created by a prominent Japanese painter and print artist 

 were based on his travels in 1930. 



August 6 



■ Announcement The Smithsonian American Art Museum 

 and the National Portrait Gallery announce a major upcom- 

 ing renovation of the Old Patent Office Building, the 

 historic home for both museums. The building will be 

 closed during the renovation, which is expected to take three 

 years. 



August 7 



■ Public program The National Museum of American His- 

 tory's Lemelson Center celebrates National Inventors Month 

 with a full day of free workshops, demonstrations, and ac- 

 tivites on playful inventions for all ages. 



August 



■ Index available on-line The Libraries completed a multi- 

 year projecr funded by the Getty Grant Program, creating 

 approximately 25,000 on-line bibliographic records relating 

 to the literature of African art and culture. Museum of 

 African Art Branch librarian Janet Stanley, author of the bib- 

 liographic index and principal investigator for the grant, 

 began to compile the information in 1979 and she will con- 

 tinue adding records as new lirerature on African art is 

 published. Since these records of the African Art biblio- 

 graphic index have been available with the Libraries' catalog 

 on SIRIS (www.siris.si.edu), reference and interlibrary loan 

 inquiries to the African Art Branch library have more than 

 tripled. 



August 9-1 3 



■ Professional education course "Wood Anatomy and Identifi- 

 cation," a course designed and hosted by the Smithsonian 

 Center for Materials Research and Education, was given for 

 the first time as part of the series offered by the laboratory's 

 optical microscopy program. Nine museum professionals at- 

 tended this practical workshop. 



August 12 



■ Professional institute The Smithsonian Associates pre- 

 sented the first of its quarterly Creativity Institutes for 

 Lockheed Martin Leadership Institutes, which will teach ap- 

 proximately 100 top Lockheed Martin executives annually. 



August 



■ Contract The National Postal Museum signs a contract 

 with Gallery Systems, Incorporated, of New York for a new 

 automated collections information system, The Museum Sys- 

 tem (TMS). 



August 



■ Scientist appointment Dr. Ilka Feller is hired as SERC Staff 

 Scientist and Principal Investigator in terrestrial animal 

 ecology with emphasis on insect-plant interactions. 



August 1 



■ Educational outreach The Smithsonian American Art Mu- 

 seum forms a museum-school partnership with Mosby 

 Woods Elementary School, which was awarded a NEA grant 

 to develop a model program for Fairfax County. 



August 1 3-November 1 4 



■ Traveling exhibition "Teddy Roosevelt: Icon of the Ameri- 

 can Century," an exhibition co-organized by the National 

 Portrait Gallery and the National Park Service, U.S. Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, was on view at Hillwood Art Museum, 

 Long Island, New York. 



August 23-27 



■ Science faculty workshop As part of the ongoing collabora- 

 tion between the Smithsonian Centet for Materials Reseatch 

 and Education and Santa Clara University, the workshop 

 "Chemical Characterization of Archaeological Materials: An 

 Interdisciplinary Approach to Variability" was held at the 

 university. Organized and taught by SCMRE faculty, and 

 based on the experience and expertise gained in the context 

 of research at SCMRE, this wotkshop focused on the scien- 

 tific analysis of archaeological materials, especially ceramics. 



