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I have two words to share:
"Congratulations!" to Ted, Agnela, and all individuals
involved in producing and providing the Avery Index.
and
"Hurray" for all of us who support architectural history.
-- jack
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Jack Robertson. Fine Arts Librarian
Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library
University of Virginia
(804) 924-6601
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www.lib.virginia.edu/fine-arts/
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 16:34:11 EST Edward Goodman
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> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> TO ALL USERS AND FRIENDS OF THE AVERY INDEX TO ARCHITECTURAL
> PERIODICALS:
>
> We are delighted to announce that, during the weekend of February
> 4-6, the first batch of 50,000 retrospective records were
> loaded in the RLIN database. By the end of February all 150,000
> records will be loaded. This conversion has been made possible by
> grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the
> Gladys M. Krieble Foundation.
>
> We want to remind you that these records were produced over a
> large span of years (between 1934 and 1977) and therefore there
> are inconsistencies in the form of entries. Corporate and
> personal names were established, at best, following AACR1 rules,
> and topical subject headings will also betray their age. Duncan
> Data Systems performed global changes on some major headings that
> we could identify in advance, but these were only a handful. We
> are planning to hire an editor to clean up the data, but this will
> be done over time.
>
> These converted records will also appear on the new CD-ROM for the
> year 2000, which will be distributed by the Getty Trust
> Publications. No more paper volumes will be published in the
> future. The last "Supplement" was the Eighteenth, issued in 1998
> containing records indexed during 1997.
>
> We have tried our very best to identify and reach subscribers to
> either the paper or the CD-ROM. But inevitably we will miss some.
> Many of you will have received the flyer issued by Getty
> announcing this change of distributors.
>
> There will be an "Avery Index Users Group Meeting" on Monday March
> 20 at 8:00 AM at the ARLIS/NA conference in Pittsburgh. Another
> meeting is being planned for the Association of Architectural
> School Librarians in Los Angeles on March 13 at 3:00PM. We welcome
> questions, comments and suggestions at any time.
>
> Questions about orders and renewals should be directed to:
>
> Getty Trust Publications Distribution Center Department RBL9 P.O.
> Box 49659 Los Angeles, CA 90049-0659 www.getty.edu/publications
>
> Questions and comments about the contents and policy decisions can
> be addressed to us:
>
> Ted Goodman, General Editor Angela Giral, Director Avery
> Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Avery Architectural and Fine Arts L
> 1172 Amsterdam Avenue 1172 Amsterdam Avenue
> Columbia University MC-0301 Columbia University MC-0301
> New York, N.Y. 10027 New York, N.Y. 10027
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