elegant exhibition catalogue Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art 

 from the Imperial Collections, copublished with the Freer 

 Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 

 elaborates on the curatorial research behind the exhibition. 

 In collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management, 

 SIP published the first recreational guide to the bureau's 

 enormous land holdings, Beyond the National Parks: A 

 Recreation Guide to the Public hands in the West. 



Books for academic audiences included a posthumously 

 published book by Martin H. Moynihan, founding director of 

 the Smithsonian Tropica! Research Institute, The Social 

 Regulation of Competition and Aggression in Animals. Ecology and 

 Management of the North American Moose received the annual 

 book award in the edited book category from the Wildlife 

 Society. The Society of American Archaeology gave its annual 

 book award to volume 2 of Monte Verde: A Late Pleistocene 

 Settlement in Chile, by Tom Dillehay, part of the Smithsonian 

 Series in Archaeological Inquiry. Continuing its tradition of 

 excellence as a publisher in museum studies, SIP issued an 

 extensively revised and expanded edition of Mane Malaro's 

 classic Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections. 



Many of the exhibition programs that Smithsonian 

 Ptoductions developed during 1998 grew out of the 

 tesearch efforts of Smithsonian museums. Highlights 

 include a video of Ella Fitzgerald's best performances for 

 "Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song" at the National 

 Museum of American History; Poetics of Line: Seven Artists 

 of the Nsukka Group, a profile of contemporary African 

 artists produced for the National Museum of African Art; 

 and three videos for "Speak to My Heart: Communities of 

 Faith and Contemporary African American Life," organized 

 by the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American 

 History and Culture. 



Several broadcast projects also drew on solid research. "Jazz 

 Smithsonian, " the nationally broadcast radio series that fearures the 

 Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and host Lena Home, 

 celebrated its sixth season by expanding to 13 programs. "Guitar: 

 Electrified, Amplified, and Deified," produced for the National 

 Museum of American History's Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson 

 Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and aired 

 nationwide on public radio, traced the musical impact of xh^ 

 electric guitar. 



Smithsonian Contributions and 

 Studies Series Program 



In scholarly communities, it is firmly held that individual 

 research has little benefit to society unless it is published. 

 This fundamental principle was wisely reflected in the 

 Institution's original mandate not only to inctease knowledge 

 but, equally important, to diffuse it. 



The Smithsonian's first Secretary emphasized publication as 

 a means of diffusing knowledge. In his formal plan for the 

 Institution, Joseph Henry proposed to "publish a series of 

 reports, giving an account of the new discoveries in science. 



and of the changes made from year to yeat in all branches of 

 knowledge," 



This commitment to publishing has been honored through 

 the years in the publication of thousands of titles issued in 

 various serial publications under the Smithsonian imprint, 

 beginning with Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge in 

 1848 and continuing today with the nine monograph series 

 published by the Smithsonian Contributions and Studies 

 Series Program. 



Highly regarded in this country and around the wotld, the 

 nine series include reports on the results of scientific, 

 technical, and histoncal tesearch conducted by Smithsonian 

 staff, as well as reports on the Institution's collections. This 

 program is one of the few avenues in which Smithsonian 

 researchers and their collaborating colleagues can publish 

 large monographs and major revisionary works, which are 

 often profusely illustrated. Most of these works are too large 

 to be considered by journals, which typically publish short 

 articles. The nine series are Anthropology, Botany, Earth 

 Sciences, Marine Sciences, Paleobiology, Zoology, Folklife 

 Studies, Air and Space, and History and Technology. The 

 publications in each series are distributed by mailing lists to 

 libraries, research institutions, government agencies, and 

 individual scholars throughout the wotld. 



In addition to providing high-quality editorial assistance, 

 the program's staff editors typeset and design the monographs 

 and provide camera-ready pages to the printer. This year, the 

 program published 18 monographs, including a Thesaurus of 

 Sponge Morphology and a two-volume work on the Systematics 

 and Biogeography of Cepkalopods. 



Smithsonian Magazine 



For 2 million readers. Smithsonian magazine is a respected link 

 to the multifaceted world of the Smithsonian. Articles about 

 research in the sciences, the arts, and the humanities, both inside 

 and outside the Institution, are regular fearures in the magazine. 

 This year, readers learned about the Smithsonian Astrophysical 

 Observatory's creation of an X-ray sensor for the new space 

 telescope known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility 

 (later renamed the Chandra X-ray Observatory) and curator 

 Wendy Wick Reaves' work on the National Portrait Gallery 

 exhibition "Celebrity Caricature in America" Other articles 

 focused on subjects as varied as freshwater mussels, the history of 

 fountains, the causes of back pain, coral reefs, and objects from 

 the California gold rush. Michael Kernan, who explores the 

 Smithsonian in his column "Around the Mall and Beyond," took 

 readers behind the scenes for, among other things, a look ar 

 collection storage and laboratories at the Museum Support 

 Center, a visit to the archives of the National Museum of 

 American History's Engineering and Industry Collection; a 

 conversation with Richard Fiske, director of the Global 

 Volcanism Program at the National Museum of Natural History; 

 and a visit to the archives of the National Museum of American 

 History's Engineering and Industry Collection. 



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