You will be provided with an office at either the Getty Research Institute (GRI) or the Getty Villa. It will be equipped with a telephone, monitor screen, and a printer with USB connection. You will have reasonable access to photocopy, department flatbed scanners, and FAX.

Building management maintains a smoke-free environment. No smoking is allowed in any interior spaces, including offices, at both the Getty Center and Villa.

Scholars and fellows are required to bring their own wireless-ready computers as the Getty will not provide computer equipment to incoming scholars and fellows. Getty Digital maintains a publicly accessible, unsecured wireless network at both the Getty Center and Getty Villa. This wireless network is called GettyLink and is open to visitors, trustees, scholars, vendors, consultants, and others who need only access the internet from their personal devices. The Getty also subscribes to eduroam, a global Wi-Fi service developed for the academic community. Guest using eduroam service at the Getty are subject to equivalent policies at their home institutions as well as the Getty's policies.

Scholars and fellows will be provided a Getty email account as well as access to a secured portal called Getty OneConnect. Both email and the portal can be accessed via any standard browser, which will require a DUO Two-Factor Authentication.

Please note: Email is permanently purged from the servers after 90 days, so it is advisable that any important email be exported as documents. It is not possible to export an entire mailbox to take with you when you depart.

Information on Getty Scholar Housing computer requirements can be found here. (PDF, 284 KB)

A small reading carrel in a shared study area may be available for Scholar Associates (spouses or partners). For GRI and Museum Scholars, please contact Scholars Program to request an Associate reading carrel. For GCI Scholars, please contact Cameron Trowbridge ctrowbridge@getty.edu. Please note that we are not able to provide computers, email accounts, long-distance telephone funding, research or administrative support for Associates. The GRI is able to provide full access to the research collections and in-house computer training, as enrollment allows.

The Getty Research Institute Library holdings, including its on-line catalog, can be browsed here. You will have full Getty Research Library privileges while in residence at the Getty Center or Villa. You may wish to provide us with a bibliography of the materials you would like to have available to conduct your research at the Center. There will inevitably be some books that the GRI does not house, but your list, if received well in advance of your arrival, will assist our librarians in acquiring those materials that fall within the general scope of the collections.

Owing to cost and space constraints, and the unavailability of books that are out of print, there will, of course, be some material that we will not acquire, particularly if it is readily available nearby at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Scholars can access the UCLA library collections through the Research Library Inter-Library Loan desk. For UCLA non-circulating materials, we are able to arrange UCLA library privileges. Click directory to browse the university holdings. On the directories page under the heading Selected Public Websites: Consortia and Directories you will find a link to the University of California Libraries.

Please note: you are responsible for returning on time all borrowed library materials. If materials are late or lost, you (not the Getty or your research assistant) will be responsible for fines or replacement fees.