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 [log in to unmask] ---------------------------- Announcement ---------------------------- 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.