Students, faculty and staff who rarely visit Monnet Hall will be invited for an open house from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m Wednesday.

Monnet Hall is the home of World Literature Today , an international quarterly established in 1927, The Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, the Western History Collections and the Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program.

"It is our hope to let staff, faculty and students know that we're here and what we have to offer and to involve the university community in our activities," said David Clark, managing editor of World Literature Today.

World Literature Today is the sponsor of the Neustadt Prize, a $40,000 award given every two years to a living author writing in any language. Four Neustadt jurors, three Neustadt laureates and 11 Neustadt candidates have received the Nobel Prize in Literature after their involvement with the Neustadt Prize.

The publication also sponsors the Puterbaugh Conferences on World Literature, a conference held once every two years. The conference invites an author to OU for two weeks of lectures and seminars.

The Carl Albert Center was established in 1979. The center is designed to help teach and research issues related to the U.S. Congress, with emphasis on its history, structure, processes, personnel policies and relationships with other institutions in the American political system.

The center works to develop academic programs at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, promote original research by faculty and students, develop resource materials related to Congress and foster a wider understanding and appreciation of Congress through its various civic education programs.

The Western History Collections document the history of Oklahoma and the American West.

The collection, housed in a reading room, has nearly 50,000 volumes, a manuscript division of more than 1,500 collections and a photographic archive that holds 250,000 prints and negatives.

The Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program is an interdisciplinary intercollegiate program. Participants from Oklahoma's private and public universities are selected to study with a scholar-leader and fellow students. Visiting scholars have included Buckminster Fuller, Maya Angelou, Bruno Bettelheim and N. Scott Momaday.

Gary Copeland, associate director and professor at the Carl Albert Center, said he thought the open house would be good exposure for the building.

"I think it's a real nice opportunity for a diverse group in Monnet Hall to share what we do with the university," Copeland said.
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