Notes on Contributors

Patrick Boylan was Director of Exeter Museums and Art Gallery until his appointment as Director, Museums and Arts, Leicestershire County Council, in 1972. President of the Museums Association, 1988-90, and an active member of ICOM for many years, he took up his appointment as Professor and Head of the Department of Arts Policy and Management, City University, London, in October 1990. (Department of Arts Policy and Management, City University, Frobisher Crescent, Barbican Centre, London ECZY 8HB,

UK)

Paisley Cato has worked in Natural History museums and collections since 1977 and served on the Board of Trustees for the Brazes Valley Museum, Texas, for seven years. She is Collections Manager for the Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, with primary responsibility for developing and implementing a museum-wide collections care program. Dr Cato’s current research interests include the management and care of natural history collections, and the philosophy and functions of museums. (Virginia Museum of Natural History, 1001 Douglas Avenue, Martinsville, VA 24112, USA)

Anthony J. Fortunato, the Director of Security at the Denver Art Museum, is a leading member of the International Committee for Museum Security (ICMS) and very active in the museum security field in the United States of America. The AIR Shield security system was developed by the Linear Measurement Technology Corp. in collaboration with him. (Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver, CO 80204, USA)

Ronald W. Keevil, a retired accountant, spent the last fifteen years of his working life in the Information Systems Department of Thames Television. His longstanding interest in all aspects of railways led him to form a group to set up a Railroad Centre in the United Kingdom focusing on the railways of North America. (The American Railroad Centre (UK), 8 J’ll’ I ian Close, Hampton, Middlesex TWl2 2NX, UK)

Hilary Maddocks received her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1990 and since then she has been engaged as Senior Research Assistant at the Ian Potter Art Conservation Centre at the University of Melbourne researching 19th- and 2Oth-century Australian picture framing. This research has formed part of a larger project on the authentication of Australian art, funded by the Australian Research Council. (Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052, Victoria, Australia)

Pippa Mason graduated as an art historian from University College London in 1977 and after some years working as an art dealer she joined Arnold Wiggins & Sons, the London picture frame makers and frame dealers, as a director in 1985. (Arnold Wiggins & Sons Limited, 4 Bury Street, St James’s, London SWlY 6AB,

UK)

Christopher Nash is a documentary film director and Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Technology, Sydney. In 1991 he was Research Fellow in Residence at the Australian Museum, looking at the role of interactive media in museums, and he is currently seconded half-time by the University to work at the Museum on a joint program of research and development of interactive media in public programs. (School of Humanities, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia)

John Perkins operates Mus”Info, a consulting company in Halifax, Canada, specializing in information management and technology for museums. Currently he is Project Manager for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) project. Previously he was Director of Client Operations for Vernon Systems Ltd, the New Zealand-based software firm dedicated to collections information management systems for museums, and prior to that he directed the Conservation Information Network for the Getty Conservation Institute. (5659 Merkel Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 251, Canada)

Theodore Anton Sande (The Western Reserve Historical Society, 10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA)

David Vance (815 Zeits Road, Lake Leelanau, MI 49653, USA)

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