A new resource architecture librarians.
Hinda Sklar
The Architectural Association
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:06:34 -0500
> From: ArchNet <[log in to unmask]>
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> We would like to introduce ArchNet <http://archnet.org> , a new
> web-based resource that will be of great benefit to researchers
> and students of architecture around the world.
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> ArchNet is designed as an online community for architects, planners,
> urban designers, landscape architects, architectural historians and
> scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.
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> Developed at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in close
> cooperation with and with the support of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture
> <http://www.akdn.org/agency/aktc.html>, ArchNet takes the wealth of
> scholarly knowledge and resources generated by the Aga Khan Program for
> Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute
> of Technology <http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/AKPsite/> and disseminates it
> to a worldwide audience.
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> The goal of ArchNet is to create a community of architects, planners,
> educators, and students who can use this as a means of sharing expertise,
> local experiences, resources, and dialogue.
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> ArchNet provides an extensive, high-quality, globally accessible,
> intellectual resource focused on architecture and planning issues,
> including restoration, conservation, housing, landscape, and related
> concerns.
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> This is achieved by providing on an accessible server, an online library
> of images and texts, bibliographical reference databases, online lectures,
> curricular materials, papers, essays, and reviews, discussion forums and
> statistical information.
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> ArchNet's online library currently includes over 15,000 images and more
> than 1,500 publications, including many hard-to-find or out-of-print
> publications. The publications (in pdf format) include full runs
> of the journals MIMAR: Architecture in Development, and Muqarnas: An
> Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World. New collections
> and rare archives are being added on an ongoing basis.
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> ArchNet is envisaged as a borderless network of institutions, all of
> them contributing to and learning from each other, and aims to influence
> the way that architects and planners are educated and practice their
> profession.
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> Membership in ArchNet is free and your personal information will be kept
> confidential. Registration only takes a few moments and is necessary
> for those who would like the ability to be able to contribute to ArchNet
> and take full advantage of its resources.
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> We hope that you will visit ArchNet and see for yourself the potential
> that it has for being a useful tool for researchers and students of
> architecture at your respective institutions.
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> If you agree that this is the case, ArchNet would in turn appreciate
> your support in the form of a link to ArchnNet <http://archnet.org>
> from your library's website.
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> If you have any questions or comments regarding ArchNet, please
> contact us at <[log in to unmask]> .
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> Thank you!
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> The ArchNet team
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