Smithsonian Year 1989 

 Chronology 



The following is a representative selection of Smithsonian events and milestones 

 during the fiscal year 1988-89. 



October 



Outreach: The Office of Public Affairs produced a panel exhibit for the National 

 Indian Education Association conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This was the 

 Institution's first participation in this national conference and included a 

 booth and presentation by Secretary Adams and other Smithsonian staff as part of 

 the program. 



October 



Visitor: Nigerian artist Sokari Douglas Camp spent three weeks at the museum 

 (into November) overseeing the installation of the exhibition "Echoes of the 

 Kalahari: Sculpture by Sokari Douglas Camp." 



October 



Federal Appropriations: The Institution established a no-year federal account in 

 the fiscal year 1989 budget to facilitate the development and acquisition of 

 major scientific instrumentation. Initial funds will go to the development of 

 the Astrophysical Observatory's submiilimeter telescope and the conversion of the 

 multiple-mirror telescope. 



October 



Publication: Smit/isonian Institution Equal Opportunity Report, October 1988 

 was published by the Office of Equal Opportunity as the first in a series of 

 semiannual reports to the congressional appropriations committees. 



October 



Publication: Crossroads of Continents, by William Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell, 

 based on the Smithsonian exhibition of the same name, was published. The book 

 became the best-selling title of fiscal year 1988-89 for Smithsonian Institution 

 Press' University Press Division. 



October 



Publication: Best Addresses, by James Goode, was published. This book 

 garnered much critical praise and became the first Smithsonian Institution Press 

 book to appear on the Washington Post best-seller list. 



