The following announcement is being posted simultaneously to CAAH,
VRA-L, ARLIS-L, MUSEUM-L, and AIA-L; please excuse any redundant
copies you may receive as a result.
 
James M. Bower
Getty Art History Information Program
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On Friday, August 5, Harold Williams, President and Chief Executive
Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust, announced the appointment of Eleanor
E. Fink as Director of the Art History Information Program (AHIP).  Fink
had been appointed Acting Director in September, 1993.
 
Williams said he is particularly pleased by the catalytic role of AHIP
under Fink's leadership in addressing issues of policy, standards and
practice common to the field internationally, as well as within the Getty.
 
Fink served previously as Program Manager for Information Standards
and Services, responsible for bringing together organizations to
address common art information management problems, fostering the
development of art information standards, and the management of
AHIP's international group of computerized art research and art
standards projects.  Before joining the Getty, in 1987, Fink was Chief of
the Office of Research Support at the National Museum of American Art,
the Smithsonian Institution.
 
The Getty Art History Information Program, one of seven operating
programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust, collaborates with many institutions
to explore the issues connected with making art-historical information
more accessible by means of advanced computer technology.  The
other programs of the Getty Trust are the J. Paul Getty Museum, the
Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, the Getty
Conservation Institute, the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, the
Museum Management Institute, and the Getty Grant Program.