In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0204061426000.27459-100000@swindon> on Sat, 6
Apr 2002, P Boylan <[log in to unmask]> wrote
>However, as you know I have been arguing for years that the International
>Committees should become incorporated in some way so that they have
>their own proper legal status.  I agree that probably the most logical way
>forward would be for all the ICs to become Affiliated Organisations - but
>there are other implications in this, not least the fact that currently
>automatic and free membership of an international committee of choice is
>one of the most important benefits of ICOM membership.)

This is not always the case. For example, CIMAM charges an additional
subscription of US$90 per three years for ICOM members who wish to join
that International Committee. Does it have some different status? Is it
the only IC that does this?

>My later point therefore addressed the ICTOP situation specifically i.e. that
>becoming an independent, but ICOM-affiliated, organisation may be the
>only way forward, not on financial grounds in our case (though I know that
>this is a major issue for the Conservation Committee), but because our
>credibility is in question since such a tiny percentage of museum training
>course staff are willing to join ICOM - despite decades of efforts to bring
>them in.

This is worrying, because I would have thought that training course
staff would have the greatest need to keep up with developments
throughout the world in many subjects. Are you saying that teachers
would join a specialist organisation devoted to teaching but that they
would not join an organisation devoted to the subjects they teach?

Leonard

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