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Thanks for raising this subject, Amanda.  My problem is with the advertised
price (US$5,955) which converts in Canadian funds to around $9,000.  Pretty
hard to justify, especially on top of Art Index which clocks in at around
CDN$2,250.  Did H.W. Wilson do any research on consumer price resistance?

Karen


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   Karen McKenzie
   Chief Librarian
   E.P. Taylor Research Library & Archives
   Art Gallery of Ontario
   317 Dundas Street West
   Toronto, ON    M5T 1G4
   CANADA


At 06:41 PM 25/01/99 EST, you wrote:
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>Dear ARLIS colleagues:
>Although the long-awaited retrospective file of Art Index is beginning to
>be made available, we have some reservations with the way it is being
>offered.  We are particularly frustrated that it is being offered as a
>separate file and not provided through the same vendors who market the
>current file of Art Index.  For those of us using Art Abstracts through
>OVID, it will be difficult to make patrons aware of this new file.  I would
>be happy to hear from anyone else who is wrestling with this; perhaps a
>collective approach to the Wilson folks would be the way to proceed.
>--Amanda Bowen
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