The Arts Policy and Management Dept. of the City University, London, UK
(the largest postgradate education and research centre in Europe - if not
wider - for policy and management education across the cultural sector)
now has a growing WWW presence, including courses and research degree
information, an introduction to the complex organisation (or perhaps
more accurately DIS-organisation!) of the cultural sector in the UK, and
a growing number of links to other international nad national Web sites,
(over 30 so far).

     URL:  http://www.city.ac.uk/artspol/index.html

The Resolutions, Forward Programme and election results of the ICOM
Triennial General Conference in Stavanger, Norway, July 1995 are also now
posted.  Themes of particular interest include Resolutions on Museums and
Communities (the General Conference theme), Protection of the Patrimony
in Armed Conflict, the new UNIDROIT Convention on the return of stolen
and smuggled cultural property; Museum professional training in relation to
environmental awareness, Information Technology Developments including
the Tokyo Declaration and encouraging ICOM committees and individual
museums and museum professionals to use INTERNET and other technologies,
and a resolution condemning proposals to resume nucear weapons testing.

The forward programme for the triennial period 1995-98 envisages major
developments in ICOM's use of information technologies and programmes to
assist museums in developing their use.


Patrick Boylan
(Vice-Pres., ICOM)