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circulation publications appearing in October. In order to attract the highly qualified candidates the position requires, the location of the director's office may be changed to Washington, D.C., and the position will be posted as both Trust and Federal. The latter change enables the Institution greater flexibility for both recruiting and hiring. Both the cap on the Federal salary and the location of the director in New York were considered serious handicaps in the prior recruitment. There will be a strong effort to attract minority and women candidates. Susan Hamilton has been serving as the acting director since November 1988.

Museum of the American Indian

The Secretary has appointed a committee to begin the search for a director of the Museum of the American Indian. Dean Anderson, Under Secretary, will serve as chairman. The first meetings of the committee are in the process of being scheduled. Active recruitment for the position is now taking place.

[[underlined]] ENHANCEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT AND GROUNDWORK FOR A DEVELOPMENT CAMPAIGN [[/underlined]]

The Smithsonian's Office of Membership and Development has continued its efforts to lay basic groundwork for an eventual development campaign of the type outlined for the Board of Regents at its May meeting. These efforts have been concentrated in aspects of reorganization of the Office, an internal development funding review, and the drafting of an Institutional "case statement," or, better put, a statement that there is a case to be made for the Smithsonian. It is expected that the case statement will be completed by January 1990.

Upon completion of an extensive self-study aided by Knowledge Systems and Research, Inc. of Syracuse, New York, the Office of Membership and Development is in the process of implementing an internal reorganization. The restructuring creates a management cabinet for the office, consisting of the Director and Deputy Director of Development, the Director of the National Associates Program, and the Director of Development Activities, a newly-created position which will be filled shortly. The plan also calls for the establishment of three development centers under the Director of Development Activities: Individual Giving, Corporate/Foundation, and Development Services, the last of which will focus on providing support to the bureaus and offices of the Institution. In addition, the plan will allow for enhanced research and record-keeping capabilities and the formation of a development publications program. Finally, the Office continues to work toward designing an improved information management system to support all facets of development activity in the Office of Membership and Development and across the Institution. The system will be selected by mid-fall and implementation will begin immediately thereafter.

Assistant Secretary Lovejoy has formed an [[underlined]] ad hoc [[/underlined]] committee to review the various methods used to fund development activity in the Office of Membership and Development and the bureaus, to review the use of overhead, to discuss implementation of systems for generating unrestricted income, and to explore possible financial incentives for generating development activity among bureaus presently relying on the central Office. The committee will hold a