October 



Chronology 



■ Training Throughout the year, the Office of Protec- 

 tion Services continued its joint training effort with 

 Fort McClellan and Jacksonville State University. More 

 than 400 officers completed the three-week course, 

 "Training the Sentinels of Our Nation's Treasures." 



October 



■ Exhibition "Always There: The African American 

 Presence in American Quilts," an exhibition presenting 

 a variety of quilting techniques and symbolic and ab- 

 stract images created by women and men from 1844 to 

 1990, opened at the Anacostia Museum. 



October 



October 



■ Collection Preservation The National Air and Space 

 Museum and the Museum fur Verkehr und Technik of 

 Berlin, Germany, signed an agreement in which the Ger- 

 man museum will restore and preserve four Horten air- 

 craft in the Air and Space Museum's collection. The 

 agreement allows the Hortens to be restored years — 

 perhaps decades — earlier than would have been possible 

 otherwise. 



■ Research Program The Smithsonian Environmental Re- 

 search Center initiated a program to document the rate 

 and mechanisms of introduction of exotic species to the 

 Chesapeake Bay. A major focus of the program is ballast 

 water in large ships. These ships often travel from ports all 

 over the world to Baltimore and Norfolk, where they 

 dump the ballast water along with living organisms from 

 their ports of origin such as pathogens, parasites, and a va- 

 riety of algae, protozoans, and invertebrates. 



October 



October 



■ Publication With trade copublisher Dorling 

 Kindersley, the Book Development Division of Smithson- 

 ian Institution Press published Smithsonian Timelines of the 

 Ancient World: A Visual Chronology from the Origins of Life to 

 AD. i$oo. Featuring more than 1,700 illustrations, maps, 

 and artistic reconstructions, this major reference volume 

 was produced in cooperation with the Anthropology De- 

 partment of the National Museum of Natural History. 



October 



■ Workshop The Office of Printing and Photographic 

 Services conducted a photographic workshop for the Na- 

 tional Park Service at Harpers Ferry, Maryland. 



October 



■ Video The Visitor Information and Associates' Re- 

 ception Center received and distributed the updated 

 Guide to the Smithsonian video for retail marketing. 



■ Library Services As a new special member of the Re- 

 search Libraries Group, the Smithsonian Institution Librar- 

 ies began participating in the ShaRes program along with 

 more than 100 of the nation's largest research and museum 

 libraries. The program fosters resource sharing among its 

 members, offering priority lending with expedited loan 

 service and permitting the Libraries to provide users more 

 efficient and effective research support. 



October 



■ Exhibition The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhi- 

 bition Service exhibition "Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Leg- 

 acy" began its two-year national tour at the Queens Museum 

 in New York. The exhibition features audio and video ele- 

 ments produced by the Office of Telecommunications. 



October 



■ Publication South of the Border: Mexico in the American 

 Imagination. 1914-1947. by James Oles, a bilingual book 



