ICOM NEWS Volume 52 - Issue No. 4/1999 (November) CONTENTS Museums News: - The Berlin Gemäldegalerie, more light! - The Centre Georges Pompidou, an even wider range of educational and arts facilities Portrait: - Peggy Loar, Vice Chair of the US National Committee of ICOM (AAM/ICOM) Ethics and Human Remains - Comments on Ethical Responsibility: stewardship of human remains, by Gary Edson, member of the ICOM Ethics Committee - Is it Ethical? by Geoffrey Lewis, Chair ICOM Ethics Committee International Committee Reports - ICFA Conference in Stockholm - CIMICIM Annual meeting in Paris - DEMHIST First Scientific Meeting in St. Petersburg ICOM 2001 - The next General Conference will be held in Barcelona from 1st to 8th July 2001, by Rafael Feria y Pérez, Chair ICOM-Spain International Museum Day - Pleasures of Discovery in Plenty!, Report on 18th May 1999 Executive Council - New Working System. Museum Partners - IFLA, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions by Ross Shimmon, Secretary General, IFLA and also,.... the Calendar of Events, the International Directory, the Committee Publications ,Thefts Reported to ICOM, and more ... ICOM NEWS is the quarterly Newsletter published by ICOM in English, French and Spanish and distributed free of charges to all ICOM Members. With this issue, members will receive their free copy of the new 36-page Study Series, No. 7, devoted to Natural History Museums and co-published with the NATHIST Committee. ENJOY your reading of ICOM Publications! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html