RESEARCH ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND MUSEUM STUDIES

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES

SMITHSONIAN LATINO CENTER

ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

Franklin S. Odo, Director

The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program provides vision, leadership and support for all Asian Pacific American (APA) activities at the Smithsonian while at the same time, serving as liaison to APA communities.

The Program works to better reflect APA experiences in Smithsonian exhibitions, programs and research. It aims to improve the public's appreciation of the crucial roles APAs have played in American history and, simultaneously, empowers APA communities in their sense of inclusion within our national culture.

PROGRAM STAFF

ODO, Franklin S., Director. B.A. (1961) Princeton University; M.A. (1963) Harvard; Ph.D. (1975) Princeton. Research specialties: Asian Pacific American history and culture, especially Japanese in America; oral history.

OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Francine C. Berkowitz, Director

The Office of International Relations (OIR) provides logistical and diplomatic support for the Smithsonian's many research or museum programs abroad, and coordinates internally the overall foreign interests of the Institution. It also represents the Smithsonian externally, serving as the Institution's formal liaison with foreign institutions and individuals, with international organizations, and with government agencies. It is responsible for many technical details of the Smithsonian's international exchanges of museum objects and personnel, assisting Smithsonian staff in arranging access to foreign areas and materials, and handling the increasingly complex regulations governing international travel by collaborating colleagues here to the Smithsonian or to other American museums and zoos.

Programs

Scholarly conferences, lectures, publications, exhibitions, consultative assistance, and meetings are periodically arranged under the auspices the Office. OIR maintains a database of information on the international activities of the Institution, which may be referred to by Smithsonian officials and research/program staff planning work abroad.

SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND MUSEUM STUDIES

Stephanie Norby, Director

The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies provides leadership in education at the Smithsonian and produces a variety of programs, services, and resources for the education and museum communities. The Center studies and analyzes education at the Institution and builds consensus on standards for strengthening its educational programs, publications, and Web sites.

Fellowships in Museum Practice

The Smithsonian's Fellowships in Museum Practice (FMP) program provides opportunities for museum scholars, practitioners and training providers to research and write about topics of importance to the museum field. The purpose of the program is to make information on current issues and public policies generated from both academic sources and reflexive practice available more broadly and in more useful formats. The long-term goal of the program is to foster innovative scholarship and expand the availability of data that has the potential to contribute to improvements in museum operations.

Fellowships are awarded annually for a period of up to 6 months. An award consists of a stipend of $3,000 per month plus round-trip travel expenses between the recipient's home and Washington, D.C.

Museum Studies Database

This bibliographic research database is the only central source of theses, dissertations, and articles concerning the role and function, history and philosophy, and nature and structure of museums. The database can be accessed through www.siris.si.edu; click on "Search Specialized Bibliographies."

For more information on any of these programs and services, contact the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Suite 105W, Capital Gallery, 600 Maryland Ave. S.W., Washington, DC 20013-7012. Phone: 202.633-5330. Fax: 202.633-5489. E-mail: educate@si.edu. Web site: www.smithsonianeducation.org or www.museumstudies.si.edu.

PROGRAM STAFF

CRAIG, Bruce C., Director, Research and Planning. B.A. (1978) M.A. (1984) George Washington University. Research specialties: Museum studies; museum staff training.

ENGELKE, Stevie, Director of Programs. B.A., M.A. George Washington University. Research specialties: Professional development for educators (museum and school) incorporating museum resources into curriculum.

FULLER, Nancy J., Program Manager, Research Services. B.A. (1958) University of Michigan; M.A. (1978) George Washington University. Research specialties: Planning and developing new museums or those undergoing organizational change; museology; museum staff training; career counseling.

NORBY, Stephanie, Director. B.S. (1973) University of California, Davis; M.A. (1982) University of Missouri. Research specialties: Family history and history of education.

SMITH, Michelle K., Director, Publications and Electronic Media. B.A. (1971) Cleveland State University; M.A. (1975) Pennsylvania State University. Research specialties: Writing and editing.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES

Nancy E. Gwinn, Director

As the largest and most diverse museum library in the world, the Smithsonian Libraries (SIL) leads the Smithsonian in taking advantage of the opportunities of the 21st-century digital society. SIL provides authoritative information and creates innovative services for SI researchers and the general public to further their quest for knowledge. Through paper preservation and digital technologies, the Libraries ensure broad and enduring access to its collections for all.

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries serves the Institution and the public through support of Smithsonian-related curatorial, research, exhibition, and educational and outreach activities. The Smithsonian Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Chesapeake Information and Research Library Alliance (CIRLA), and the Federal Library Information Center Committee (FLICC). The Libraries participates in the reciprocal borrowing and interlibrary loan programs of OCLC, an international bibliographic utility and RLG-Programs, with over 22,000 participating libraries, museums and archives.

The Smithsonian Libraries collections of approximately 1,550,000 volumes, and nearly 6,000 currently received journal titles are available to Smithsonian staff, visiting researchers, and other scholars through a system of 20 libraries located in Washington, DC, Maryland, New York City, and the Republic of Panama. Users of SIL's list of online journals (http://www.sil.si.edu/eresources/tfr_index.cfm) have access to 2,261 online journals, of which 1,533 can only be accessed from a Smithsonian computer and 728 are free online journals which can be accessed from any computer. SIL collections are particularly strong in natural history, tropical biology, ecology and environmental management, wildlife conservation, American ethnology and culture, American history, the history of science and technology, aviation history and space flight, postal history, design and decorative arts, African art, American art, modern and contemporary art, Asian art, horticulture, conservation, and museum administration. Collections in African American and Latino history and culture are growing steadily. In addition, the Libraries hold a distinguished collection of 50,000 historically important rare books; over 300,000 examples of manufacturer's commercial trade catalogs, representing 30,000 companies, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries; and 2,000 manuscripts groups.

Access to and management of the Libraries collections are aided by the integrated automated online library system of the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS). This system includes the online catalog of library collections as well as automated acquisitions, circulation, and other library functions. Holdings are accessible through the Internet at http://siris.si.edu. Records of the Libraries collections are also accessible through OCLC, and the Libraries maintain access to this and other national library and commercial databases. The Smithsonian Libraries maintains a website called Galaxy of Knowledge, which presents a constantly increasing variety of content in science, American history, art and design, and industry and technology. SI researchers demand continuous, instant access to information, and SIL delivers credible (reliable) information to internal and external users when and wherever it's needed, from whatever source. See http://www.sil.si.edu.

Recognizing that the world's information needs are increasingly digital, SIL continues to build its capacity to collaborate across the SI community to transform SI content and programs (collections, research products) into digital products readily available to the world. Offerings include full texts of rare books, collections of unique research resources, online exhibitions, resource guides, newsletters and other SI Libraries publications, and links to other web resources in Smithsonian areas of interest. The Smithsonian Libraries' Galaxy of Images (http://www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy) opens up our collections in a way never possible before. These images are a small, but increasing sampling of the materials that support the research of the Smithsonian.

In addition to providing customary library services, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries serves the Institution and the general public through education and outreach programs, including exhibitions, lectures, and publications, and through internship and volunteer programs.

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries offers two programs for Resident Scholars to use SIL Special Collections: The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology Resident Scholar Program and the Baird Society Resident Scholar Program. Dibner Library Resident Scholars conduct research using rare works from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. The core of the holdings of the Dibner Library consists of approximately 10,000 rare books and manuscripts that were generously donated to the nation by the Burndy Library (founder, Bern Dibner) on the occasion of the nation's Bicentennial (1976). The strengths of the Dibner Library collection are in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, classical natural philosophy, theoretical physics (up to the early 20th century), experimental physics (especially electricity and magnetism), engineering technology (from the Renaissance to the late 19th century), and scientific apparatus and instruments. The rare books, which date from the 15th to the 20th centuries, include significant holdings of works by Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Euclid, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Leonhard Euler, René Descartes, and Pierre Simon, marquis de Laplace, and Aristotle. Scientists represented by significant manuscript papers include Dominique François Arago, Humphry Davy, John William Lubbock, Isaac Newton, Henri Milne-Edwards, Hans Christian Øersted, Henry Hureau de Sénarmont, Benjamin Silliman, Jr., and Silvanus P. Thompson. The Dibner Library collections support the research interests of Smithsonian staff in the National Museum of American History, and provide valuable resources for other Smithsonian and external museums and researchers. This program is supported by The Dibner Fund.

Baird Society Resident Scholars will do research in SIL's special collections located in Washington, DC and New York City. These special collections include printed materials on world's fairs in the Dibner Library (19th and early 20th centuries); trade literature in the National Museum of American History Library used to study American industrialization, mass production, and consumerism; natural history rare books in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History (pre-1840 works on topics such as botany, zoology, travel and exploration, museums and collecting, geology, and anthropology), as well as James Smithson's library; air and space history in the National Air and Space Museum Library's Ramsey Room (ballooning, rocketry, and aviation, late 18th to early 20th centuries); and European and American decorative arts, architecture, and design in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library's Bradley Room (18th to 20th centuries). This award is supported by the Spencer Baird Society of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE

ADAMS, Marcia, Assistant Director, Technical Services. B.A. (1969) Purdue University; M.L.S. (1972) Indiana University. Research specialties: Integrated library systems; Library Technical Services.

FRAMPTON, Susan R., Program Coordinator. B.A. (1972), M.L.S. (1974) University of Pittsburgh. Research specialties: Exhibition and project management; education and outreach programming.

GWINN, Nancy E., Director. B.A. (1967) University of Wyoming; A.M.L.S. (1969) University of Michigan; Ph.D. (1996) George Washington University. Research specialties: Library history and 19th-century American cultural history.

THOMAS, Mary A., Associate Director, Reader Services and Strategic Planning. A.B. (1973) Mount Holyoke; M.S. (1978) Catholic University of America. Research specialties: Library administration; Smithsonian Libraries History.

TECHNICAL SERVICES DIVISION

ASHLEY, Lowell E., Head, Original Cataloging Section. B.A. (1963) Emory and Henry College; M.L.S. (1973) George Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Research specialties: Cataloging, cataloging of audiovisual materials, cataloging of music, cataloging of electronic resources, authority control.

AVERA, Vicki, Librarian, Project Manager. B.S.(1972) University of Maryland. Research specialties: Project management, cataloging and cataloging support contracts, and electronic resources licensing.

HAIGHT, Vanessa, Book Conservator. B.A. (1984) Washington College; Postgraduate Diploma (2006) West Dean College; M.A.(2007) University of Sussex. Research specialties: Library exhibition planning; study of book leathers; Seventeenth-century English binding.

PILSK, Suzanne Chernau, Librarian (Cataloger). B.A. (1984) Trinity College, Hartford; M.L.S. (1987) Vanderbilt University. Research specialties: Library science, cataloging, metadata.

RILEY, Sheila Maureen, Head, Catalog Management Section. B.A. (1974) Marquette University. Research specialties: Library Cataloging, Metatdata, Technical Services.

SHAW, Courtney Ann, Senior Reference Librarian, National Museum of Natural History Library. B.A. (1968) University of Wisconsin; M.S.L.S. (1970) Case Western Reserve University; Ph.D. (1992) University of Maryland. Research specialties: Textiles, Art History, Animal imagery, especially vertebrates.

READER SERVICES DIVISION

ALTSTATT, Lynne, Librarian, Vine Deloria, Jr. Library, National Museum of the American Indian Library. B.A.(1971), M.L.S. (1973) University of Oklahoma; Certificate in Database Application Development and Design (2002) Columbia University. Research specialties: Native American Studies, technology in libraries.

BAXTER, William E., Librarian, National Air and Space Museum Library. B.A. (1975), M.A. (1978) St. Louis University; M.S. (LS) (1982) Drexel University. Research specialties: U.S. history special collections; history of psychiatry; history of science.

BROOKE, Anne, Librarian, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library. B.A. (1964), M.L.S. (1965) University of California, Berkeley; M.A. Art History,(1988) American University. Research specialties: Contemporary and modern art.

CHANG-YAU, Vielka, Librarian, Earl S. Tupper Tropical Sciences Library, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. B.A. (1971) Keuka College; M.A. University of Chicago. Research specialties: Library administration, library services, library management.

CHIN, Cecilia, Librarian, Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library. B.A. (1961) National Taiwan University; M.L.S. (1963) University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.. Research specialties: Art library administration.

COLLIER, Shauna, Librarian, Anacostia Community Museum Library. B.S. (1986) Jackson State University; M.L.S. (1996) University of Alabama. Research specialties: Library/Information Studies; African American Studies.

COTTRILL, Chris, Senior Reference Librarian, National Museum of American History Library. B.A. (1995) University of Maryland; M.L.S. (1998) University of Maryland. Research specialties: U.S. military and naval history.

DITTEMORE, Margaret R., Librarian, John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology. B.A. (1971), M.L.S. (1973) University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. (1983) University of Chicago. Research specialties: Anthropological bibliography, anthropology, Middle East, social science bibliography, research libraries especially collections.

HAGGINS, Angela, Librarian, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Library. B.A. (1971) Elmhurst College. Research specialties: Chesapeake Bay ecology and land use history, ecology, ecosystems, estuarine, landscape and coastal zone ecology.

JUNEAU, Ann, Head, Natural and Physical Sciences Department and Librarian, National Museum of Natural History Library. B.A. (1972) University of New Orleans; M.Ln (1973) Emory University. Research specialties: Natural History librarianship and reference.

HAUG, James, Reference Librarian, John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology. M.S.P.H.(1987) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; M.L.S.(1991) Carolina Central University; Ph.D. (1977) University of Colorado, Boulder. Research specialties: Anthropological bibliography.

LASKER, Patricia L., Reference Librarian, Natural Museum of Natural History Library. B.A. (1978) East Carolina University. Research specialties: Integrated library systems, database searching, reference assistance.

LEVIN, Amy E., Librarian, Museum Studies & Reference Library. B.S. (1965) University of Wisconsin; M.L.S. (1969) University of Pittsburgh; Certificate of Medical Librarianship (1969). Research specialties: Automated and traditional, general and specialized reference, museum studies, life and earth sciences, medicine, science, social sciences, technology, Smithsoniana, current and historical interdisciplinary studies.

McCUTCHEON, Paul K., Librarian, National Postal Museum Library. B.A. (1982), M.L.S. (1989) University of Maryland. Research specialties: History of aviation and space flight reference and preservation of library materials.

OVERSTREET, Leslie K., Curator of Natural-History Rare Books, Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History. B.A. (1971) Reed College; M.A.T. (1972) Reed College; M.L.S. (1988) University of Maryland. Research specialties: Bibliography of natural history literature; naturalist Mark Catesby (1683-1749).

PHILLIPS, Kathryn, Librarian, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art Library. B.A. (1976) University of Maryland; M.L.S. (1990) Catholic University of America. Research specialties: Art and architecture of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

ROAN, James P., Reference Librarian, National Museum of American History Library. B.A. (1974) University of Maryland. Research specialties: Trade literature, material culture and history of technology.

SHU, Yue, Assistant Librarian, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art Library. B.A. (1986) Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute; M. Ed. (1992) George Washington University; M.L.S. (2001) Catholic University. Research specialties: Chinese art.

STANLEY, Janet, Librarian, Warren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art. B.A. (1968) American University; M.S.L.S. (1970) Catholic University of America. Research specialties: African art bibliography and documentation.

TAYLOR, Gil, Librarian, Museum Support Center Library. B.A. (1983), M.L.S. (1989) University of Maryland. Research specialties: Literature and bibliographic databases in the study of biology and the conservation of museum objects.

VAN DYK, Stephen H., Librarian, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library. B.A. (1972) William Paterson College; M.S. (1974) University of North Carolina; M.A. (Candidate), Rutgers University. Research specialties: Design and decorative arts and architecture, 19th and 20th centuries.

YOSHIMURA, Reiko, Librarian, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library. B.A.(1981)Millersville University of Pennsylvania; M.L.S (1983)Indiana University. Research specialties: Books and publishing in the Edo period (1600-1868), Japan.

DIGITAL LIBRARY AND INFORMATION DIVISION

GILLIGAN, Eliza, Biodiversity Heritage Library Conservator. B.A.(1992) St. John's College; MLIS (2000) University of Texas, Austin. Research specialties: Bookbinding, exhibit standards.

HUTCHINSON, Alvin R., Information Services Librarian. B.A. (1986) University of Baltimore; M.L.S. (1988) University of Maryland. Research specialties: Science publishing and communication; Digital libraries.

KALFATOVIC, Martin R., Head, New Media Office. B.A. (1983), M.S.L.S. (1990) Catholic University of America. Research specialties: Information technology and American art.

MISSELL, Elizabeth, Systems Librarian. B.A. (1990) University of New Hampshire; M.A. (1994) George Washington University; M.L.S. (1997) University of Maryland. Research specialties: Library systems administration and support.

SMITHSONIAN LATINO CENTER

Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

The Smithsonian Latino Center is dedicated to ensure that Latino contributions to art, science and the humanities are highlighted, understood and advanced through the development and support of public programs, scholarly research, museum collections and educational opportunities at the Smithsonian Institution and its affiliated organizations across the United States.

The Center promotes the inclusion of Latino contributions in Smithsonian programs, exhibitions, collections and public outreach. It does this in three principal ways:

• It supports cultural, historical and scientific projects across the Smithsonian that represents significant Latino achievement either through funding or technical assistance.
• It develops and manages educational programs, products and outreach.
• It promotes public awareness of Latino programs at the Smithsonian museums and its affiliates across the United States.

RESEARCH STAFF

CARRILLO, Melissa, Virtual Museum/Web Programs Director. B.F.A. (1992) Art Center College of Design; B.A. (1989), M.A.I.S (1998) University of Texas, El Paso. Research specialties: photography, Web design and development.

FLORES, Joanne, Core Programs Director. B.A. (1994) Boston College; M.A. (1998) New York University. Research specialties: Latino art, history and culture.

KEY, Emily, Education Program Manager. B.A. (2005) George Washington University. Research specialties: Latino art, culture, history and science and bilingual educational initiatives.

WOODMAN, Ranald, Exhibitions and Public Programs Director. B.A. (1997) University of Virginia; M.A.T. (2006) George Washington University. Research specialties: Interpreting and representing Latino and Latin American cultures and historical narratives in museums.

AFFILIATED RESEARCH STAFF

MIERI, Magdalena, Director, Program in Latino History and Culture, Office of Public Programs, NMAH. B.A. (1986) Argentine Institute of Museology; M.A. (1991) University of Buenos Aires. Research specialties: Museology; Latin American and Latino studies; cultural representation.

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