We know all of our ARLIS/NA colleagues will want to join us in congratulating Milan Hughston on his appointment as the new Chief of Library and Museum Archives at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Excerpts from the text of the MoMA press release follow. For the full release select 28-Jul-99 at http://www.moma.org/docs.cfm/press/1999

The Museum of Modern Art Appoints a Chief of Library and Museum Archives

Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, announced the appointment of Milan R. Hughston to the newly created position of Chief of Library and Museum Archives effective September 7. Mr. Hughston, who comes to MoMA after twenty years at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, will lead the centralization of the Museum's research resources, consisting of the Library and Museum Archives. He will report to Patterson Sims, Deputy Director for Education and Research Resources.

Mr. Lowry said: "The Museum has searched widely for an individual to oversee, consolidate, and re-envision its extraordinary research resources. In Milan Hughston, we have found a gifted leader and articulate spokesperson for the Museum's expanding role as the preeminent research facility for modern art in the world."

Mr. Hughston began his career at the Amon Carter Museum as Assistant Librarian in 1979, following a period of postgraduate work in Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the University of Manchester, England. In 1983, he was promoted to Associate Librarian, a post he held until 1989, when he was named Librarian.

Rick Stewart, Director of the Amon Carter Museum, commented: "Milan Hughston is a consummate art librarian, one of the finest I have ever known. Over the past twenty years he has developed the Amon Carter Museum's research library into one of the finest and most comprehensive American art resource centers to be found anywhere. His effective leadership, most recently demonstrated with the establishment of the Cultural District Library Consortium, has greatly benefited us all. Milan is very well-known and admired in the professional research library community, and our loss will assuredly be MoMA's gain."

Mr. Sims said: "The selection of Milan Hughston gives the Museum a seasoned librarian with a strong commitment to and knowledge of the benefits and importance of art museum archives. While long based in Fort Worth, Hughston is nationally well respected and has many connections to New York City. Given the unusually gifted staff already in place, Milan's responsibilities will focus on the Museum's new scholarly opportunities, the upcoming major building program, and attracting the additional funding needed for research support."