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I'm going to repeat here an observation I may have made earlier: the most enthusiastic promoters of AMICO on campus have not turned out to be art historians and visual librarians but people outside the visual arts who want easy access to images. This impression was recently strongly confirmed by the impressions of our VP for Information Services and Libraries. It might well be worth some effort to reach these other audiences, which might include historians, sociologists, anthropologists, computer scientists, museum studies people, and those in charge of creative writing programs. In testing and evaluating the AMICO Library, I'd make a couple of recommendations: 1. When looking for rigorous criticism of things like image quality, search engines, and comprehensiveness, go to art historians. 2. When looking for enthusiastic support, people to promote purchase of AMICO on campus, and out-of-the-box thinking about image classification, go to non-art historians. Peter Walsh, Davis Museum, Wellesley College |