03/03/98 - AMICO University Testbed Participants Announced

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Please excuse any duplication, and forward as appropriate. ***** AMICO University Testbed Participants Announced ***** Art Museum Image Consortium is pleased to announce the results of its Call for Participation in the University Testbed Project. A select group of universities will be the first to receive the AMICO Library of multimedia documentation of museum collections in the 1998/1999 academic year. Together the AMICO University Testbed Participants and AMICO members will explore issues related to the licensing and delivery of multimedia museum documentation to higher education. University Testbed Project Participants 1998/1999 Academic Year Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA California State Universities, CA, USA San Jose State, San Jose, CA Long Beach, Long Beach, CA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Harvard University, Boston, MA , USA Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA and Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, IN, USA Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Scarborough,Ontario Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA The AMICO Library will be available under license to all higher educational institutions in the 1999/2000 academic year. Access to the AMICO Library during the University Testbed Project is being provided by the Research Libraries Group (RLG), Mountain View, CA, USA. RLG will offer access to universities under subscription beginning in the 1999/2000 academic year. AMICO is in discussions with the California Digital Library initiative and the OhioLINK Consortium to act as distributors to their higher education constituencies beginning with the 1999/2000 academic year. A number of other distributors will serve Public Libraries and Kindergarten through Grade 12 Educational Institutions beginning in 1999/2000. AMICO is a not-for-profit consortium of institutions with collections of art, who have come together to improve educational access to the documentation of objects in their care. Further information about joining AMICO, and details of its license terms and programs, is available at the Consortium's web site http://www.amico.net or contact Jennifer Trant <jtrant@archimuse.com> or David Bearman <dbear@archimuse.com> AMICO's Management Consultants. -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museum Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366 --------

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