Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the ARLIS/NA President, Executive Board and the ARLIS/NA International Relations Committee, I am pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 ARLIS/NA – Getty International Program awards. Through the generosity of the Getty Foundation 20 grants have been awarded to art information professionals from Latin America and Eastern Europe in support of their attendance at the ARLIS/NA+VRA 3rd Joint Conference<http://www.arlisna-vra.org/seattle2016/index.php> in Seattle. Vânia Mara Alves Lima, President of the Library Board, School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil Isabel Cristina Ayres da Silva Maringelli, Head of Library and Museum Archives, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil Lauci Bortoluci Quintana, Library Coordinator, Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo, Brazil Jasenka Ferber Bogdan, Senior Professional Associate, Fine Arts Archives, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia José E. Flores Ramos, Library Director, Architecture Library, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico Edith Hermann, Chief Librarian, Tartu Art College Library, Tartu, Estonia Ádám Horváth, Head, Central Library of the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary Svetlana A. Kostanyan, Head of the Museum Library, State Kremlin Museums, Moscow, Russia Richard Leonides López Azuaje, Chief of the Library, Contemporary Art Museum, Caracas, Venezuela Romeu de Loreto Neto, First Assistant of the Library and Documentation Center, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Brazil Magdalena Mazik, Library Manager, Museum of Contemporary Art MOCAK, Krakow, Poland Olivera Nastić, Librarian, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Documentation Department, Belgrade, Serbia Ranieli Piccinini Machado Shinohara, Chief Librarian, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Alpina Gonzaga Martins Rosa, Director of the Library, Federal Court Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Amanda de Souza Carvalho Salgado, Librarian, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Anelia Tűű, Librarian, Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Yanina Valeria Chandía, Serials Chief Librarian, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Faculty of Arts, Santiago, Chile Erika Velázquez Guerrero, Head of the Latin American Library, Juan Manuel Blanes Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay Miriam Velázquez Martínez, Head of the Library, Biblioteca Rogerio Casas-Alatriste H., Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City, Mexico Anastasiia Zotova, Bibliographer, Research Library, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia Congratulations to the award winners. ARLIS/NA International Relations Committee Christina Peter (chair) Elisa Hansen, Deborah Kempe, Kathleen E. Salomon, Liv Valmestad, Rina M. Vecchiola, Sandra Ludig Brooke Christina Peter Head, Acquisitions Frick Art Reference Library 10 East 71st Street New York, N.Y. 10021 Phone: 212-547-0691 Fax: 212-547-0680 E-mail: [log in to unmask] The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~