Tag: 15. März 2007

Metropolitan Museum and ARTstor Announce Pioneering Initiative to Provide Digital Images to Scholars at No Charge, a press release from the Met, March 12, 2007. Excerpt:

In a new initiative designed to assist scholars with teaching, study, and the publication of academic works, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will distribute, free of charge, high-resolution digital images from an expanding array of works in its renowned collection for use in academic publications. This new service, which is effective immediately, is available through ARTstor, a non-profit organization that makes art images available for educational use.

Dear Ms. Adkins:

I am surprised and distressed at Council’s approval of the destruction
of the A&A List Archives. I find Council’s appraisal of the value of
the Archives to be incomprehensible: besides its great practical use,
the List Archives is a remarkable historical resource for the
development of the profession in a time of great change. That it does
not reflect the activities of SAA may be true, but then that has never
been the purpose of the List.

Frankly, this decision is so antithetical to the whole spirit of the
profession, that I can only hope that it was made in a fit of
absent-mindedness.

On a practical note, when fellow archivists insist they don’t join SAA
because it “doesn’t give me anything,” I have in the last few years been
able to point to the A&A List and its very useful Archives. Obviously,
after March I won’t be able to make that argument.

I respectfully request Council to reconsider this decision, to affirm
the value of the A&A List Archives, and to follow up the several
generous offers to host the Archives that have been made on the A&A List.

Sincerely,