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(don't know if this will affect any of you but I
suspect it might - cheers, Paula)
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:32:51 +0100
From: Adrian Smith <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Bibliography of the History of Art = International Bibliography of Art
For information only:
"the first of three updates to the database will be on June 30, 2009"
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/bha/
In response to current economic conditions, the
J. Paul Getty Trust recently announced it will
significantly reduce its 2010 fiscal year budget.
This will have an impact on all of the Getty's
operations, including the Getty Research
Institute (GRI). Since news of the Getty's budget
reduction became public, including information
about the Bibliography of the History of Art
(BHA), we have received some inquiries about the BHA's future.
We thought it would be helpful to review the
history of the Getty's involvement with the BHA,
the current status of the database, and our expectations for its future.
From 1990, when the International Repertory of
the Literature of Art (RILA) and the Répertoire
d'Art et d'Archéologie (RAA) came together to
form BHA, it was a joint project between the
Getty and the major database producer, the
Institut de l'Information Scientifique et
Technique-CNRS. At the end of 2007, this
collaboration ceased and BHA formally came to an end.
Since January 2008, the GRI has continued
production of the database on its own, under the
name of the International Bibliography of Art
(IBA), and over the last sixteen months, the GRI
has made an effort to forge collaborative
partnerships on the IBA both nationally and internationally.
While there is interest in seeing the database
continue, there have been no formal partnership
commitments and no guarantees of outside funding
for the project. Unfortunately, with the GRI
facing severe budget challenges and without
strong and committed partners to share the work,
it has become impossible for the Getty to
maintain the IBA on its own. Nevertheless, the
GRI continues to be interested in seeing the IBA
continue its service to the art historical field.
In the near term, the IBA will continue its work,
and the first of three updates to the database will be on June 30, 2009.
This update will include new data (IBA), and all
of the past data of BHA and RILA. It will not
contain RAA. This June 30 update will also
include the updates from December 31, 2008 and
March 31, 2009, which were delayed for technical
reasons. All subscribers will also receive
scheduled updates on September 30, and December 31, 2009.
Beginning January 1, 2010, the Getty will no
longer support the ongoing IBA. We are hopeful
that by this time the IBA will be transferred to
an organization that can provide continuing
support for this valuable resource. Our goal is
to move the BHA/IBA to an organization that will
provide a transfer in service smooth enough that
subscribers may not even notice.
We are hopeful that the same distributors will be
used after January 1, 2010, and that updates will continue in a regular way.
We will keep the art historical community
informed as this process develops. At this time,
we would like to express our gratitude to the art
reference librarians, art historians, and
graduate students whose support has sustained
RILA/BHA/IBA for over 29 years. We look forward
to your continued support during this period of transition.
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Adrian Smith, JIBS User Group Committee
www.jibs.ac.uk
Leeds University Library
0113 3435531
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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