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From: "Catherine Grout" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 7:31 PM
Subject: Forthcoming DNER image content: AMICO Subscriptions
> apologies for cross-posting,
> please circulate widely in HE
>
> ******
> Subscriptions to image and
> multimedia resources for the 2000/2001 academic
> year: AMICO
>
> ******
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am contacting you to supply you with further details
> about image and multimedia content of
> particular interest to the visual arts and humanities
> communities which will be available for institutional
> subscription from October/November 2000.
> ____________________________________
>
> *AMICO - a collection of digital art images from American
> Museums.*
>
> The AMICO Library makes multimedia documentation of
> artworks from the collections of leading museums across
> North America available to universities, colleges, schools,
> and public libraries. The 2000-2001 edition of the AMICO
> Library documents over 65,000 different works of art, from
> prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations.
> More than simply an image database, works in the AMICO
> Library are fully documented and may also include
> curatorial text about the artwork, detailed provenance
> information, multiple views of the work itself, and other
> related multimedia.
>
> More information is available at
> http://www.amico.org/home.html
>
> AMICO will be available for subscription for all UK higher
> education institutions at a highly subsidised rate. The
> initial subscription period will be 3 years.
> Subscription charges will be 50 - 150 GBP pa
> in the first year, rising to 200 - 600 GBP in year three,
> depending on the size of your institution. This represents
> a considerable reduction in list prices.
>
> Details of how to subscribe will be posted on the JISC
> website at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/collections
>
> If you require any further information at this stage,
> please contact; Catherine Grout, Collections Manager for
> Multimedia, Joint Information
> Systems Committee, [log in to unmask], 0207 8482937
>
>
> ----------------------
> Catherine Grout
> Collections Manager, Multimedia
> DNER Office
> Joint Information Systems Committee
> c/o Kings College London
> Old Library
> Strand, London WC2R 2LS
> [log in to unmask]
>
> (020) 7848 2937 direct line
> (020) 7848 2939 fax
>
>
>
>
>
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