Videos available from IPS/ASP conference

(Left: Jennifer Mielke, 13, of Miami won top prize for her age group in the international children's art contest organized by Sian Evans of Dumond Conservancy in Miami and WRPRC's Gabriele Lubach. Contest art was displayed during the IPS/ASP conference. (Photo by Edi Chan.)

The WRPRC Library is collecting videotapes from the largest ever International Primatological Society and American Society of Primatologists (IPS/ASP) conference, hosted by our Center Aug. 11-16, 1996, at the UW-Madison Memorial Union.

To inquire on availability of videotapes of the plenary lectures, art exhibit, primatologist interviews and other events, please contact the WRPRC Library at (608) 263-3512 (jacobsen@primate.wisc.edu). To donate copies of videotapes to update our audiovisual archive, contact Ray Hamel at (608) 263-3512 (hamel@primate.wisc.edu).

Commemorative posters are also available while supplies last. Send a check payable to Friends of the Primate Center Library for $10 plus $2.50 shipping and handling to Gabriele Lubach, WRPRC, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1220 Capitol Court, Madison, WI 53715-1299. The poster appears on Primate Info Net (http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/folie.html). A few T-shirts also remain. Contact Edi Chan at (608) 263-3500 (chan@primate.wisc.edu) to order.

About 1,300 attended the conference. Many staff members pitched in to ensure the success of its numerous sessions, workshops, lectures, exhibitions and social gatherings. The week's highlights included an international primate art exhibit (curated by Larry Jacobsen, head of the Primate Center Library), an international film competition, and plenary speakers Robert Sapolsky, Toshisada Nishida, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Peter Parham and Anthony Rylands. The newly elected IPS Council also took office. For more information on council activities, view the IPS web site (http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/ips.html).