On July 1st the AMICO Library, consisting of over 50,000 high resolution
images of art works, will be available for subscription. The Art Museum
Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not for profit association of institutions
with collections of art that have come together to enable educational
use of the digital documentation of their collections. The AMICO Library
includes catalogued images of paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics,
photographs, and many other forms of art from Europe, North and South
America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, contributed by 26 major North
American museums and galleries.
This integrated art image resource is useful for teaching and research
in art, social sciences, history, and many other fields of study. To
learn more about subscribing to the AMICO Library, visit
http://www.rlg.org/amico/index.html. From the UK and Western Europe,
visit http://www.rlg.ac.uk/amico/index.html.
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Tony Gill
Research Libraries Group
1200 Villa Street, Mountain View, California 94041-1100, USA
Tel: +1 (650) 691-2304 * Fax: +1 (650) 964-0943
E-mail: [log in to unmask] * Web: http://www.rlg.org/
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