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i n s i eClaudia B. Laws/[email protected]
Carl Brasseaux is director of the Center for Louisiana Studies
at the University of Louisiana .
Centr ofOurUni rs
The Center for Louisiana Studiesreaches out.
By Marie Elizabeth de Mahyontributing Writer
Founded 30 yearsInformation
For more information on theCenter for Louisiana Studies,
seehttp://ds.louisiana.edu.
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i n s i eContinued from page 17unassuming location and lack of
fulltime staff members (four in addition toBrasseaux), the center's
production levelscontinue to pick up speed.
Last year alone, the center producedseven books, a compact disc,
four issuesof the state historic journal, fournewsletters and
expanded its Web sitewhile at the same time providing servic-
trying to reach out to the public more toyour average readers
and your everydaypeople.
In an effort for local outreach thispast year, the center
organized booksignings, conventions, lecture series andits first
fiction projgct: the LouisianaWriters Series.
But Brasseaux says at the nationallevel, exposure is not a
problem.
When the NewWe initially started by publishing books and the
state historicaljournal. But, we've also expanded over the years
and changed itand tried to bring it to the 20thcentury:
York Times or the WallStree.t Journal needinformation
onLouisiana, they don'tcalllSU, they callhere, he says proudly.
According toBrasseaux, the credible national reputation of the
center isdirectly related to thearchives on which itwas founded.
ConradCarl Brasseaux
es such as working with the Louisianagovernment to gain federal
funding forcoastal wetlands restoration. Brasseauxcredits the
staff, including his right-handman, assistant director James
Wilson, forgoing the extra mile.
We tried to do a lot of new things toaccentuate the positive of
what the center had done all those years and toexpand that as well,
says Wilson. We're
started the center in1973 with one co1lection, the
colonialrecords collection, which became thelargest collection of
archives relating tothe development of the lowerMississippi valley.
The center expandedfurther with the acquisition of the
statehistorical journaL
'We initially started by publishingbooks and the state
historical journal,says Brasseaux. But, we've also expand-
Recent TitlesReligion in LouisianaEdited by Charles E. NolanThe
most recent installment in TheLouisiana Purchase Bicentennial
Series inLouisiana History, 19 volumes of articlesfrom Louisiana
scholars (almost complete).The Blue Boat By Darrell BourqueThe
first installment of the LouisianaWriters Series
