AMICO Members worked with a select group of campuses to get at just this question of who might use the AMICO Library of digital museum multimedia, and what they would use it for.
The highlights of the AMICO University Testbed (1998-1999 academic year, involving 24 AMICO Member institutions and a dozen campuses) are online at http://www.amico.org/projects/u.mtg.99/u.results.html These include PowerPoint presentations from Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Alberta, Washington University St. Louis, and Boston College. Users on these campuses ranged from traditional art historians to cultural historians and computer scientists (indeed!). Since faculty plan and develop courses years in advance, and often teach the same course for multiple years, the integration of new materials into curriculum is a lengthy process. Since much museum content hasn't been available and much of it isn't well known, it's actually harder for faculty to use than the traditional images they've been used to in books (and for which their slide librarians have copied images). There is still a strong need for partnerships and projects that bring together museums and teachers, museums and professors, and students and curators, to engage and encourage the use of cultural collections. jennifer ________ J. Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org Phone: +1 412 422 8533 jtr...@amico.org Fax: +1 412 422 8594 ________ __________ J. Trant jtr...@archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 412 422 8530 Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 412 422 8594 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com Pittsburgh, PA 15217 __________
