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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Feb 21, 2000 GROUP PURCHASE DISCOUNTS for 2 GROVE'S ONLINE TITLES Dear Virginia Colleagues, Grove's Dictionaries, Inc. is offering pricing discounts for two arts and humanities titles: DICTIONARY OF ART ONLINE and the NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC & MUSICIANS (forthcoming in September). These titles are outside the current collections scope for VIVA, but many libraries in Virginia will want to add these two titles. Both titles will support teaching and research in the visual and performing arts, as well as history, literature, religion, cultural studies, anthropology and ethnography, etc. Please share this info with all colleagues interested in arts and humanities research tools, and encourage the appropriate purchasing agent to be in touch with me if your institution is interested in participating in this group library discount. Jack Robertson, Fine Arts Librarian University of Virginia [log in to unmask] 804-924-6601 Music librarians may contact: Jane Edmister Penner Music Librarian Music Library, Old Cabell Hall [log in to unmask] 804-924-6033 Jane or I will be happy to answer any questions and to provide price discount specifics. Libraries will be billed separately, and each library will have the option of making a site licensing agreement with Grove to provide institution-wide networked access. THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, 2nd Edition will be published in electronic format in September 2000. There is a 250-article demo at www.grovemusic.com which offers a cross-section of the finished product's eventual 29,000 articles and 25 million words. Online features will include: * the complete text, * notated musical examples, * full text search, * specialised searches, * carefully planned hypertext links, * a unique 'browse by subject' feature, * links to thousands of images, * links to digital sound, * links to related sites. Quarterly updates to include: * biographical updates, * bibliographic updates, * additional links to related sites, * new and improved features and functionality Annual updates to include: * newly commissioned articles and revised material for the 20th and 21st centuries, * each year, a different subject area will be reviewed and updated THE GROVE DICTIONARY OF ART ONLINE. [ more info: http://www.groveart.com/ ] The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts-- painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography * from prehistory to the present day. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study. This scope of coverage is unrivalled by any other art historical reference work, either in print or online: * 45,000 articles, * 500,000 bibliographical citations, * 86,000 cross references, * 720,000 index entries, * 100,000 Images from the Bridgeman Art Library, *30,000 external image links, * 2,000 external subject-related links. New and updated articles are added monthly. * * * * * * * * Jack Robertson. Fine Arts Librarian Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library University of Virginia (804) 924-6601 [log in to unmask] www.lib.virginia.edu/fine-arts/ --- End Forwarded Message --- --- * * * * * * * * Jack Robertson. Fine Arts Librarian Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library University of Virginia (804) 924-6601 [log in to unmask] www.lib.virginia.edu/fine-arts/ __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask]