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Title: Getty Research Institute Librarian Anne-Mieke Halbrook Records
Date (inclusive): 1971-2000, undated
Number: IA60001
Creator/Collector:
Getty Research Institute
Physical Description:
5.5 linear feet
(6 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Institutional Records and Archives
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
archives@getty.edu
Abstract: Records comprise correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes and other administrative files dating from 1971 to 2000 pertaining
to the work of Anne-Mieke Halbrook, Chief Librarian. The records provide insight to the administrative and resource development
of the library at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (GCHAH) and its successor, the Getty Research
Institute, as well as early projects the Research Library participated in, such as the Retrospective Reconversion Project.
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Language: Collection material is in
English
The Getty Research Institute (GRI) is a program developed and overseen by the J. Paul Getty Trust, an international cultural
and philanthropic not-for-profit institution educational in purpose and character, that focuses on the visual arts in all
of their dimensions, serving both general audiences and specialized professionals. As of 2011 the Trust supports and oversees
four programs: the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Getty Foundation; the Getty Conservation Institute; and the Getty Research Institute,
which is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts.
The origins of the J. Paul Getty Trust date to 1953, when J. Paul Getty established the J. Paul Getty Museum as a California
charitable trust to house his growing art collections. Originally a small, private institution located in Mr. Getty's Ranch
House near Malibu, California, the museum moved to the newly constructed Getty Villa on grounds adjacent to the Ranch House
in 1974. When most of Mr. Getty's personal estate passed to the Trust in 1982, the Trustees decided that, given the size of
the endowment, it should make a greater contribution to the visual arts and humanities than the museum could alone. In 1982,
following extensive international deliberations with knowledgeable individuals, the trustees made commitments to three new
entities, a Conservation Institute, a Center for Education in the Arts, and a Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
(GCHAH), which formally opened in July 1983.
From its inception the objective of the GCHAH was to foster advanced research in art, its history, diversity, and meaning
in our culture by engaging scholars from various disciplines in the humanities. The proposed center was to include a residence
program for scholars, a major expansion of the library, a modest publications program, and an art photo archive. The activities
of the center were also to focus on preserving historic materials in the field of art history and the development of new reference
tools for the field, using the latest in information technologies.
In 1996, in order to avoid confusion with the soon-to-open Getty Center in Brentwood, the GCHAH was renamed the Getty Research
Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities and moved to the Getty Center in I997. In 2000 the program's name was
shortened to the Getty Research Institute (GRI).
The GRI's Research Library, one of the largest art libraries in the world, is accessible to both on-site and remote users
and supports scholars and researchers around the world. The library's Special Collections department contains rare books and
unique materials, such as drawings, personal papers, unpublished manuscripts, journals, letters, video art, architectural
drawings and models, and other primary sources. The general library collection contains over a million secondary sources,
focusing on the histories of art, architecture, and archaeology from pre-history to contemporary times. Additionally, the
Research Library maintains numerous online databases, which serve global communities of librarians, archivists, historians,
and museum professionals; a Photo Study Collection, which contains over two million photographs of art and architecture; and
the Getty's Institutional Archives, which maintains records of enduring value related to the founding and development of the
Trust and its programs.
The GRI's role includes several other significant activities. Through its residential Scholar Program the GRI brings together
an international group of artists, composers, architects, filmmakers, writers, and academics to exchange ideas while pursuing
their own projects. Since the library's materials are often handled during scholarly research, and thereby exposed to light,
air, physical movement, and human contact, the GRI maintains an expert conservation team that works to restore and preserve
the Research Library's unique holdings.
The GRI creates and disseminates new knowledge through its expertise, its active collecting program, public programs, institutional
collaborations, exhibitions, publications, digital services, and residential scholars program. The Getty Research Institute
also promotes a broader understanding of the arts and reaches a more diverse audience through its public programs, which include
workshops, conferences, lectures, performances, film screenings, and exhibitions.
Anne-Mieke Halbrook's service to the J. Paul Getty Trust includes her employment at the Getty Museum as Chief Librarian; Chief
Librarian at the Getty Center for the History of Arts and the Humanities; and as the Head of Collection Management at the
Getty Research Institute.
With the exception of materials that have been marked restricted or confidential, the records described in accessions 2005.IA.04
and 2008.IA.41 are available for use by qualified researchers. Please note: selected restricted materials must be removed
from boxes prior to access by researcher.
The following types of records are permanently closed: records containing personal information, records that compromise security
or operations, legal communications, legal work product, and records related to donors. The J. Paul Getty Trust reserves the
right to restrict access to any records held by the Institutional Archives.
Contact
Library Rights and Reproductions at the Getty Research Institute for copyright information and permission to publish.
[Cite the item and series (as appropriate)], Getty Research Institute Librarian Anne-Mieke Halbrook records, 1971-2000, undated.
The Getty Research Institute (IA60001).
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifaia60001
The records described in this finding aid are from accessions 2005.IA.04 and 2008.IA.41, transferred by Anne-Mieke Halbrook
of the Getty Research Institute.
Helen Kim intellectually processed the records and wrote the finding aid in 2015. No other work has been performed on the
materials.
Related materials may exist in unprocessed collections related to library records. Contact Institutional Archives for more
information.
Scope and Content of Collection
The records comprise the administrative, correspondence, and project files of Anne-Mieke Halbrook, Chief Librarian of the
J. Paul Getty Museum and later Chief Librarian of the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and its predecessors, the Getty Research
Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (GCHAH).
Materials date from 1971 to 2000 and provide insight to the creation and development of the library's core holdings and programs
and its efforts to become a center for art history research and scholarship. The materials also document Halbrook's involvement
in partnership projects with other cultural institutions and include correspondence, reports, budgets, planning documents,
statistics, minutes, memoranda, photos, and documentation of gifts to the library.
These records are organized in four series:
Series I. Research library records, 1971-1997, undated; Series II. Correspondence and memos, 1973-2000, undated; Series III.
Administrative records, 1975-1995, undated; Series IV. Photographs and ephemera, 1982-1985, 1993.
Anderle, Don
Forster, Kurt Walter
Sauerländer, Willibald
Williams, Harold Marvin, 1928-
Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Getty Conservation Institute
Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
Getty Research Institute. Research Library
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J. Paul Getty Museum
J. Paul Getty Trust
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Correspondence
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Training manuals
Halbrook, Anne-Mieke