srarted a new publication during the year and republished a 

 book with the American Association of Museums. 



The center's American Indian Museum Studies Program, 

 managed by Karen Coody Cooper, created the Museum 

 Development Award Program in 1997 and selected the 

 People's Center of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai 

 Tribes in Pablo, Montana, as its first recipient. The yearlong 

 program provided consultations, expert assistance, informa- 

 tion, and staff training and development to the museum's staff 

 to address self-identified problem areas. 



The Rockefeller Foundation awarded two grants to CMS to 

 implement a three-year program, "Humanities Fellowships in 

 Latino Cultural Research in a National Museum Context: - 

 Issues of Representation and Interpretation." Magdalena Mien, 

 Museum Programs Specialist at the center, will coordinate the 

 program. During the first year of the program, 1998, one 

 senior scholar, two junior scholars, and two short-term visitors 

 will be in residence at the National Museum of American Art. 



During the year CMS agreed to partner with Montgomery 

 Community College in the development of the Montgomery 

 College Humanities Institute. Montgomery College sought 

 the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities 

 Challenge Grant to create this institute. (Funding came 

 through in early FY 1998.) Incorporating faculty seminars and 

 fellowships as well as internships for Montgomery College 

 students, this partnership will facilitate access to staff, collec- 

 tions, and other resources at the Smithsonian. The partnership 

 also represents a ground-breaking commitment to working 

 with the community college education sector. 



CMS and the American Association of Museums published 

 the proceedings from the September 1996 symposium, 

 "Museums for the New Millennium." During the year the 

 center also began publication of "CMS Reports to the Smithson- 

 ian," a semi-annual newsletter for Smithsonian staff. 



Major initiatives in 1997 for the ongoing services of CMS 

 were electronic outreach, increased programming for the 

 Latino community, and intern services. 



Under the coordination of the center's Communication 

 Manager, Bruce Craig, CMS expanded its electronic outreach 

 services, putting the complete text of Internship Opportunities at 

 the Smithsonian Institution online, making applications to center 

 programming available on the World Wide Web, and contin- 

 uing to host a popular interactive museum careers resource 

 area on America Online. The center also continued to enhance 

 the website for the virtual symposium, "Museums for the 

 New Millennium." During the year Nancy Fuller, Research 

 Manager at the center, began planning the first "virtual" 

 workshop, based on the World Wide Web. 



The center's services to Latino communities, under the co- 

 ordination of Magdalena Mieri, continued this year with the 

 annual seminar, "Interpreting Latino Cultures: Research and 

 Museums," cosponsored with the Inter-University Program 

 for Latino Research. Fifteen Latina/Latino Ph.D. candidates 

 participated in the two week program, held June 16 through 

 27. Highlights of this year's seminar were discussions on is- 



sues of Latino identity and representation and current issues 

 in Latino art. Following the seminar, three participants were 

 selected to participate in the Graduate Student Fellowships in 

 Latino Studies. 



The Museum Intern Partnership Program, under the co- 

 ordination of Elena Mayberry, Intern Services Coordinator, 

 promotes professional growth and development of students 

 from culturally diverse backgrounds, assists smaller museums 

 around the country, and strengthens Smithsonian staff con- 

 tacts throughout the museum community. Pennsylvania State 

 University joined the program this year with a partnership 

 between that university's Matson Museum of Anthropology 

 and the National Museum of Natural History, Department of 

 Anthropology — Arctic Studies Center. Jane LeGros, a junior 

 at Penn State, interned with this project. The Vincent Wilkin- 

 son endowment provides support fot African American stu- 

 dents in the Museum Intern Partnership Program. This year 

 two Vincent Wilkinson intern partnerships took place. The 

 first partnership was between the National Museum of 

 American History's Program in African American Culture 

 and the Great Plains Black Museum in Omaha, NE; Maureen 

 Kelly, a student at Creighton University interned with this 

 partnership. The second partnership was between the Nation- 

 al Museum of African Art and Spelman College Museum of 

 Fine Art in Atlanta, GA; Melinda Lewis, a junior at Spelman, 

 interned with this project. 



Intern Services sponsored the 17th annual Museum Careers 

 Seminar during July. The program provided an overview of 

 the museum field, roundtable discussions with various profes- 

 sionals, workshops on resume writing and tips on applying for 

 federal jobs. Intern Services also coordinated the Smithson- 

 ian's annual Intern Ice Cream Social, held this year on June 

 26. Ben and Jerry's contributed 15 gallons of ice cream, top- 

 pings, and manpower for the event. 



The American Indian Museum Studies program sponsored 

 three museum practice workshops this year: "Managing a 

 Small Museum," hosted by the San Carlos Apache Cultural 

 Center in Peridot, AZ; "Archival Research Methods," cospon- 

 sored by the National Museum of the American Indian and 

 held in Washington, D.C.; and "Basic Collections Care," 

 hosted by the Mille Lac Indian Museum in Onamia, MN. The 

 program also developed Tribal Museum Directory with listings 

 of more than 200 tribally controlled museums in the United 

 States. 



Bettie Lee, Curriculum Coordinator for the center assumed 

 responsibility for the center's workshop series and coordinated 

 "Introduction to the Management of Museum Collections," 

 held September 15 through 19. Seventeen museum staffers 

 from around the country and South Africa attended the pro- 

 gram, which featured classroom instruction and behind-the- 

 scenes tours of several Smithsonian facilities. 



The Awards for Museum Leadership seminar, held this year 

 on March 17 through 21, offered participants from museums 

 around the country a variety of management and professional 

 development tools to promote increased cultural diversity in 



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