July 11, 2003

Smithsonian Institution Press Slashes Spending as Break-Even Deadline Looms

By PETER MONAGHAN

BOOK BALANCING: Required to erase this year a deficit that last year approached $1-million or close up shop, the Smithsonian Institution Press has been taking drastic measures. They are meeting with extraordinary success, within the terms of the break-even mandate; Smithsonian researchers, however, are lamenting them as the latest erosion of the institution's mission.

Among the steps: decreasing scholarly publications from 80 percent to 20 percent of the press's output of about 70

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