September 



■ Milestone The decade-long effort, supported by the 

 Getty Research Institute, to print all 127,000 negatives 

 of artworks and artists' portraits in the Peter A. Juley 

 Collection of the National Museum of American Art 

 was completed. The museum, in association with Dover 

 publications, published "American Artists in 

 Photographic Portraits," featuring more than 200 of the 

 black and white photographs. 



September 



■ Award Smithsonian Magazine was selected as a win- 

 ner of the Editorial Excellence Award in Folio: The 

 Magazine for Magazine Management's seventh annual com- 

 petition. Smithsonian won in the category of "General 

 Editorial," recognizing the editor whose magazine fea- 

 tures, departments and design best fulfilled the editorial 

 standards they have set for themselves. Smithsonian 

 editor Don Moser was honored during Folio's awards 

 ceremony "A Celebration of Excellence" in New York. 



September 



■ Advisory Board The Smithsonian Environmental Re- 

 search Center established its first Advisory Board. Pre- 

 viously, the Center had relied upon temporary review panels 

 for advice and evaluation of its programs. The new Advisory 

 Board will be asked for guidance on evaluating and planning 

 the future of our education and research programs, improv- 

 ing development, marketing and business management ef- 

 forts and raising the profile of the Center. 



September 



■ Major Gift Smithsonian Institution Libraries' 

 Natural History Rare Book Library received a major gift 

 from Mary Marvin Breckinridge (Mrs. Jefferson) Patter- 

 son of $202,500 over three years to underwrite the posi- 

 tion of Curatorship of Rare Books in the new Natural 

 History Rare Book Library now under construction in 

 the East Court of the National Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. This rare-book collection, the largest in SIL, is 

 used by researchers in the natural sciences, and is espe- 

 cially strong in anthropology, mollusks, and reports of 

 19th- and early-20th-century scientific voyages and ex- 

 peditions to all pans of the world. 



September 



■ Seu- Education Building Beneficial occupancy of a 

 new facility for the orientation of visitors allowed the 



Smithsonian Environmental Research Center to begin 

 to expand its public education programs. The building 

 includes exhibit space, two classrooms, and a teacher 

 resource area. 



September 



■ Public Program In honor of the centennial of Rural 

 Free Delivery Service, the National Postal Museum 

 developed two new video presentations and conducted a 

 day-long symposium highlighting its history. 



September 5 



■ Special Event Modeled on the tremendous success of 

 the Masters Program in the History of Decorative Arts 

 in New York, a second Masters Program opened this fall 

 in Washington, D.C. Co-sponsored by Cooper-Hewitt, 

 National Design Museum, Parsons School of Design, 

 and the Smithsonian Associates, the Washington pro- 

 gram will focus on American decorative arts of the 19th 

 and 20th centuries. 



September 'j-j 



■ Symposium The Center for Museum Studies or- 

 ganized and produced "Museums for the New Millen- 

 nium," a symposium for the museum community in 

 celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



September 6 



■ I MAX Theater The Office of Contracting and 

 Property Management awarded a contract to IMAX Cor- 

 poration of Toronto, Canada, for a 3-D Large Format 

 Imax® theater projection and sound system for the Na- 

 tional Museum of Natural History's West Court "Dis- 

 covery Center" Project. 



September 10—13 



■ Workshop The American Indian Museum Studies 

 program at the Center for Museum Studies sponsored 

 "Creating a Repository: Making Decisions about Collec- 

 tions," hosted by the Menominee Historic Preservation 

 Office, Keshena, WI. 



September 11 



■ Publication A groundbreaking publication on acces- 

 sible exhibition design was developed by the Acces- 

 sibility Program in the Office of the Provost. The 



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