can Indian Museum Studies program of the Office of 

 Museum Programs, was hosted in Anadarko, Okla- 

 homa, by the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. 



August 30 



■ Outreach Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 

 botanists Mireya Correa and Noris Salazar, with Claudia 

 Peralta from the University of Panama, completed a 

 guided interpretive trail for Campana National Park. 

 The project was made possible by a grant from the 

 Smithsonian Women's Committee. 



September 



■ Collection Preservation The National Museum of Afri- 

 can Art's Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives com- 

 pleted the first year of an extensive motion picture film 

 collection preservation and classification project. The 

 project was funded by the Smithsonian Institution Re- 

 search Resources Program. 



September 



■ Recording The Smithsonian Institution Press, in asso- 

 ciation with Columbia/Legacy Records, released the de- 

 finitive four-CD boxed set Louis Armstrong: Portrait of the 

 Artist as a Young Man, 1923-1934. The release accompa- 

 nied the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition 

 Service exhibition "Louis Armstrong— A Cultural Leg- 

 acy" and includes the great trumpeter's most important 

 and influential early recordings, as well as an in-depth 

 account of his life and music by Dan Morgenstern, direc- 

 tor of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. 



September 



■ Construction Project The Office of Design and Con- 

 struction neared completion on construction of a new 

 laboratory building at the Smithsonian Tropical Re- 

 search Institute's facility at Barro Colorado Island, in- 

 cluding a new pier, extension of the concrete pathway 

 and main utility lines, a two-unit dormitory building 

 for researchers, and an eight-unit dormitory building 

 for island workers. 



September 



■ Publication Smithsonian Books published Nature on 

 the Rampage, in which noted geographer H. J. de Blij 

 and other distinguished natural science writers examine 



the causes and phenomena of natural disasters. Reviews 

 of modern and ancient climate changes complete this 

 comprehensive study, which is tailored to a popular 

 audience. 



September 



■ Research The Smithsonian Environmental Research 

 Center completed installing instruments that measure 

 and analyze discharge from seven tributary streams of 

 the Conestoga River basin in the Great Valley of Penn- 

 sylvania as part of a long-term Chesapeake Bay water- 

 shed research program. 



September 



■ Construction Project The Office of Design and Con- 

 struction neared completion of a $5 million construc- 

 tion and repair effort for the Museum Support Center 

 and the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland, Maryland. 

 Construction includes a new artifact storage building 

 and a chemical cleaning and restoration addition to 

 Building IO. 



September 



■ Education The National Science Resources Center 

 began nationally field-testing the preliminary edition of 

 Rocks and Minerals, a third-grade unit in the Science and 

 Technology for Children hands-on science curriculum 

 program. 



September 



■ Video The introduction to the Visitor Information 

 and Associates' Reception Center's orientation video, 

 produced with the Office of Telecommunications and 

 shown in the Smithsonian Information Center, was re- 

 vised to include opening remarks by the new Secretary, 

 I. Michael Heyman. 



September 



■ CD-ROM With the Commission on Preservation 

 and Access, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries 

 launched an experimental project to put digitized im- 

 ages of illustrations from the Libraries' special collec- 

 tions on a CD-ROM to allow for greater access to the 

 collections while reducing handling of these fragile 

 materials. 



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