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The AMICO Library™ from RLG

Add a growing collection of museum multimedia to your information resources

Universities and colleges, public libraries, museums, and schools from kindergarten through 12th grade can incorporate rights-cleared, high-quality art images into class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources, all by subscription to The AMICO Library™ from RLG.

What is The AMICO Library?

The AMICO Library is The Art Museum Image Consortium's multimedia resource of more than 100,000 representations of works of art with descriptive material from leading museums. Every work has at least one high-resolution image and basic cataloging information to describe it. Many also feature enhanced information such as curatorial notes, provenance data, conservation history, sound, video, exhibition catalogs, bibliographic citations, and additional views of the work. New works are added annually. And everything is rights-cleared for educational use.

Why get The AMICO Library from RLG?

From RLG you get fast, powerful Web-based searching. RLG has unparalleled familiarity with The AMICO Library since RLG has been providing access to this resource since its inception in September 1998. RLG can arrange pricing to accommodate consortial subscriptions and as well as single-institution ones. A subscription offers:

  • A single point of entry to many collections
  • Rights clearance for educational purposes
  • High-quality images and superb collections
  • JPEG format in various sizes for easy storage and use
  • An easy way to e-mail images and captions to yourself
  • Substantial, detailed, multimedia descriptive information
  • Research access that fits any schedule, in a reliable, interactive, online environment
  • A year of unlimited searching sessions
  • Annual enrichment by AMICO member contributions

The AMICO Library complements these other RLG services to form an unparalleled suite of art and image sources:

RLG subscription pricing

How can I use it?

  • To locate images by keyword, title, creator, date, owner, subject, format, and culture or nationality.
  • As a rich new tool for research, educational projects, and classroom teaching using high-quality, licensed images from leading museums and galleries.
  • To expand boundaries in your studies of art, history, literature, classics, archaeology, anthropology, culture, religion, and other disciplines.
  • To retrieve known works and discover unanticipated works.
  • To view images at various sizes and compare them side by side.
  • To illustrate papers, lectures, assignments, and study guides.
  • If you're a curator or librarian, to see others' approaches to cataloging and find comparative works to enhance the interpretation of your own collections.
  • For unprecedented access to museum collections for research, education, and enjoyment.

Try it out!

Trial access is available to institutions.

First-time subscribers open an account with RLG (if your institution does not already have one in place) and sign a license with AMICO. Licenses and subscriptions are automatically renewable.

Who do I call?

Contact the RLG Information Center at bl.ric@rlg.org, 800-537-7546 (North America), +1-650-691-2333 (outside North America)

  

What's represented in The AMICO Library?

The 2003 edition of The AMICO Library includes about:
  • 15,000 paintings
  • 6,000 sculptures
  • 13,000 drawings and watercolors
  • 15,000 prints
  • 30,000 photographs
  • 2,000 textiles
  • 2,000 costumes and jewelry
  • 9,000 works of decorative art
  • 600 books and manuscripts

Who uses it?

  • Educators
  • Students
  • Scholars
  • Museum staff
  • Library staff
  • Public library patrons

Who is AMICO?

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not-for-profit association of leading museums that collaborate to enable educational use of their collections online. Together, these AMICO members are building The AMICO Library:

AMICO Members
  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  • Art Gallery of Ontario
  • The Art Institute of Chicago
  • Asia Society Galleries
  • Brooklyn Children's Museum
  • Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
  • Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Dallas Museum of Art
  • Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
  • Denver Art Museum
  • The Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  • The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library
  • George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art
  • J. Paul Getty Museum
  • Library of Congress
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Louisiana State Museum
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
  • The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
  • Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • National Gallery of Canada
  • National Museums of Scotland
  • The Newark Museum
  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • The Phillips Collection
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • Terra Museum of American Art
  • Victoria & Albert Museum
  • Walker Art Center
  • The Walters Art Museum
  • Whitney Museum of American Art

Last updated 9 January 2004

This site was frozen in 2004 and is now out of date. Please go to RLG's current Web site for all information. Questions? Contact us.

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