Dear Mario,

Patrick and Colette are more than right.  Some 
national and international committees already 
have active groups of young museum professionals, 
who are bringing new blood and bright new ideas 
to us 'old' members.  This is the case of 
ICOFOM.  We do not want to loose our brilliant young members...

Maybe we should consider the officialization of 
the presence of young members in national and 
international committees, with special 
rights.  They may even meet in a specific 'forum' 
at the General Conferences, without loosing their 
membership to the committees of origin.

So, the first thing would be to establish what 
ICOM understands as 'young' professionals: those 
who are under 35? 30? 25?  Those who are older 
than that and 'young' in the museum 
profession?  How young?  What about those who are 
young at heart and will never get 'old'?

The second thing would be to define what would be 
the rights of those members.  Will they all be student members?
This is not a simple question to solve: many 
young professionals are already PhDs, while some 
professionals older than 35 (or 40) will be still 
getting their postgraduate degrees.  That will 
vary from country to country, from Region to 
Region, according to local/regional systems of 
education and educational opportunities.

This has already been mentioned by other 
colleagues, some weeks ago, as well as the 
difficulty in defining special rights.

Yet I think we must go on discussing this 
matter.  I am entirely in favour of the renovation of ICOM membership!

Tereza Scheiner
E. Council


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At 11:54 26/8/2005, you wrote:
>Mario,
>
>To Patrick's opinion, I would like to add that this new international
>committee would potentially deprive the other International Committees of
>their young members.  This, I think would be a very sad reprecaution.
>
>In all this business of young people, one should remember that until very
>recently, enven graduates students in museum studies were not allowed
>membership!  So with the change in ICOM membership rules, we could expect to
>see many more young people participating to conferences and other
>activities.
>
>C. Dufresne-Tassé,
>President CECA
>
>
>Le 25/08/05 06:57, « P Boylan » <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :
>
> > On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Mario Bucolo wrote:
> >
> > +++++ [CLIP] +++++
> >
> >> 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).
> >
> > =================
> >
> > 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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