On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Mario Bucolo wrote:

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> Last week I meet, informally, in Paris the ICOM General Secretary and we
> talk about this idea. He was happy about this initiative and he want to look
> again to the proposal after a better definition about who will join the
> group, the group goals and strategic plan to achieve the goals.
> He was very clear that the creation of a new International Committees inside
> ICOM it will be difficult (also regarding burocracy) and with long times
> (about Vienna 2007 general assembly).

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Mario:

Please remember that if your suggested Group is eventually constituted as
an official ICOM International Committee any "younger" ICOM member joining
it would not be allowed to be a full ("voting") member in any other
International Committee, such as the International Committee for their own
academic or professional specialisation (ICME, Nat Hist, CECA, ICMS or
whatever). (This is clear under the Statutes and Rules of ICOM, which
allow full membership in only one International Committee at a time.)

I am sure that nobody - least of all the younger members - would want to
cut themselves off from perhaps more senior professional colleagues in
their own specialisation in this way, so some other structure would be
needed.




Patrick Boylan

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