August 



Research: James Karr, Alan Smith, and Joseph Wright, all of the Smithsonian Tropical 

 Research Institute, gave research presentations at the Annual Joint Meetings of the 

 Ecological Society of America and the Association for Tropical Biology in Columbus, 

 Ohio. A total of twenty-one presentations at the meetings were based on research 

 conducted at the institute. 



August 



Workshop: An Office of Museum Programs workshop, "Planning, Design, and Production of 

 Exhibitions," was conducted in Costa Rica by a team of four Smithsonian staff 

 members. The workshop served as a model for the Training Committee of the 

 International Council on Museums. 



August 



Outreach: About twenty high school teachers attended a summer workshop sponsored by 

 Project STAR, a National Science Foundation-funded program at the Harvard-Smithsonian 

 Center for Astrophysics. The workshop was designed to improve the teaching of 

 secondary school science through an astronomy curriculum. 



August 



Construction: Three greenhouses were completed— two for the Greenhouse-Nursery 

 Division of the Office of Horticulture and one for the Marine Systems Laboratory for 

 the development of an everglade mesocosm. 



August 



Publication: The Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) published Collections 

 Management: An SIL Policy Manual, a two-volume work that was distributed to 

 administrative offices and SIL units. 



August 



Public Service Announcement: "There's a New Look at the Smithsonian," thirty-second 

 and ten-second public service announcements were produced for television by the Office 

 of Public Affairs. Announcing the opening of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the 

 National Museum of African Art, the announcements were distributed to one hundred 

 television stations around the country. 



August 3-7 



Conference: The Office of Protection Services (OPS) hosted the annual meeting of the 

 International Committee on Museum Security. OPS Director Robert Burke was elected 

 chairman of the committee. In conjunction with the meeting, the office conducted its 

 tenth annual conference on museum security, attended by more than two hundred museum 

 security specialists from around the world. 



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