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ARLIS colleagues - Below is a press release that went live today. Some may have seen an earlier announcement posted to the VRA list when questions about AMICO prompted us to release a preview of RLG's plans for making the content available going forward. Please let me know if you have questions, and as more information becomes available you'll hear from us again! - Pamela (see also http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=11521) RLG Introduces New Fine Arts Database: CAMIOTM - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ricky Erway, RLG [log in to unmask] +1-650-691-2228 Mountain View, CA, 26 May 2005 - RLG is pleased to announce CAMIOTM, Catalog of Art Museum Images Online, a database of art from prominent museums. CAMIO's contents span all continents and range from 3000 BC to the 21st century. They include high-resolution images of photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles, books, installations, and architecture - plus audio-video and mixed media. CAMIO fills the gap left by the end of operations of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO). RLG was actively involved with the consortium, offering the AMICO Library database for subscription from 1998 to 2005. Many educational institutions came to depend on the AMICO Library as a source of high-quality, rights-cleared, fine art images. Now, RLG has negotiated individual arrangements with many of the AMICO member museums to continue offering access to their content through CAMIO. This new database not only supports art history, studio art, and design departments, it also provides rich context for history, religion, and other humanities programs. "We're glad that we can deliver this valuable arts resource to the academic community," says Ricky Erway, manager of digital resources at RLG. "The AMICO Library has been very popular, and we're committed to continuing support for the use of art images in education and research." Museums contributing to CAMIO also benefit from this new arrangement. There is no fee to participate and their museum staff receive free access to CAMIO. In addition, RLG offers museums the opportunity to make their images available for licensing through Trove.netTM, an open-Web image database, and receive revenue. "CAMIO is evidence of RLG's commitment to the library, museum, and archive communities - and to the provision of quality resources for teaching, research, and learning," says Susan Roeper, librarian, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. CAMIO is scheduled for release for July 1, 2005. It is available by subscription to universities and colleges, public libraries, museums, and schools. The database is used through the same powerful Web interface that users previously enjoyed with the AMICO Library from RLG. Institutional representatives are invited to register for a free trial of CAMIO at: www.rlg.org/trial For more information about CAMIO, go to: www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20638 RLG, www.rlg.org, is an international, not-for-profit membership organization of over 150 universities, libraries, archives, historical societies, and other institutions with collections that support research and learning. Incorporated in 1975, RLG designs and delivers innovative information discovery services, organizes collaborative programs, and takes an active role in creating and promoting relevant standards and practices. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send 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 (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]