[Asis-l] AMICO's move to University of Toronto

[J. Trant - AMICO Executive Director]

Art Museum Image Consortium
www.amico.org
Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia



AMICO Press Release
For Immediate Release: August 1, 2002.

AMICO Research and Editorial Offices
Move to The University of Toronto,
Robarts Research Library for the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is delighted to announce that 
the University of Toronto has been selected as its new institutional 
host. Beginning in the fall of 2002 the AMICO Research and Editorial 
Offices will move to Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. 
The University of Toronto was selected following an open Request for 
Proposals, issued in the spring of 2002.

"We're delighted to be moving to the University of Toronto", says 
Jennifer Trant, AMICO's Executive Director. "The diversity of 
academic computing activities and the breadth of interest in AMICO 
from across university departments bodes well for fruitful 
collaborations."

Carole Moore, University Librarian, concurred. "Our proposal to AMICO 
demonstrated the diversity of activity at U of T. We're pleased to 
have AMICO join the many other digital library initiatives within the 
University of Toronto Library and across our campuses. We're excited 
not only to host AMICO but to see AMICO as a partner in our many 
on-going activities."

The University of Toronto Library is in an ideal position to 
facilitate collaboration across departments, as its mandate is wider 
than most, including support and coordination of academic computing 
for instruction and provision of access to digital resources for 
research and teaching. In the words of U of T's outgoing Provost, 
Adel Sedra, the Library provides, "one stop shopping for information 
and information technology." Through its digital and print library 
resources, its Information Commons access services, and its Resource 
Center for Academic Technology support for teaching, the Library 
works with all faculties to integrate resources for user convenience.

The University of Toronto, which is among the largest in North 
America, has a strong entrepreneurial faculty culture and common 
interests in exploring utilization of new media and technology. 
"We're looking forward to exploring ties with the Museum Studies 
Program, the Faculty of Information Studies, the Knowledge Media 
Design Institute and others across the Faculty of Arts and Science 
and the School of Education," says David Bearman, AMICO's Director of 
Strategy and Research. "The time is ripe to integrate networked 
cultural heritage with research, teaching and learning across the 
disciplines."

New Address:

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
Robarts Library 7th Floor
University of Toronto
130 St George St.
Toronto, ON M5S 1A5


  About AMICO
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a growing, independent 
non-profit (501c3) corporation.  Founded in 1997, the Consortium 
today is made up of over 35 major museums in the United States, 
Canada, and the United Kingdom.  It's an innovative collaboration - 
not seen before in museums - that shares, shapes, and standardizes 
digital information regarding museum collections and enables its 
educational use.  Membership is open to any institution with a 
collection of art.

Together AMICO Members build The AMICO LibraryTM a compilation of 
multimedia documentation of works in their collections.  The 2002 
edition of The AMICO Library documents over 100,000 different works 
of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary 
installations; new works are added annually.  More than simply an 
image database, AMICO Library works are fully documented and may 
include curatorial text, detailed provenance information, multiple 
views, and other related multimedia.  Subscribers find The AMICO 
Library valuable because it combines the immediacy and accessibility 
of the Web with the persistence and academic weight of traditional 
library reference sources.

The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to licensed 
subscribers such as universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and 
museums. Over 3 million users on four continents include faculty, 
students, teachers, staff, researchers, and public library patrons. 
Educational subscribers receive access to The AMICO Library through 
one of our Distributors. A subscription to The AMICO Library provides 
rights to use works for a broad range of educational purposes. 
Potential Members and Subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of 
The AMICO Library, request a free trial from our Distributors, and 
get further information at http://www.amico.org.

Contact Information

Jennifer Trant
Executive Director
Art Museum Image Consortium
Phone: +1 412 422 8533
Fax: + 1 412 291 1292
Email: info at amico.org

AMICO Members

Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Institute of Chicago
Asia Society Gallery
Center for Creative Photography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art
Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley College
Denver Art Museum
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library
George Eastman House
J. Paul Getty Museum
The Library of Congress
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louisiana State Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Canada
National Museums of Scotland
The Newark Museum
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Terra Museum of American Art
Victoria & Albert Museum
Walker Art Center
The Walters Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art

Membership is open: Join Us! See http://www.amico.org/join.html
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J. Trant
Executive Director
Art Museum Image Consortium
http://www.amico.org
jtrant at amico.org		Fax: +1 412 291 1292
AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia
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