Another way to attract younger members would be institute some form of
student membership, working through those institutions who have membership
status within ICTOP or another ICOM committee.
Martin Segger
>On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, LynneTeather wrote:
>
>++++[CLIP]++++
>
>> One way that younger members might be attracted to ICOM is for our museum
>> studies educational places (schools, associations, institutes) to emphasise
>> the work of ICOM and its many committees and affiliated groups. I'm afraid
>> my experience is that such is often not the case, especially in North
>> America.
>
>=============================
>
>Lynne:
>
>Agreed. Another would be to allow those National Committees who want to
>do so to recruit people on specialised advanced museology courses
>(Postgraduate Diploma and Master's upwards) into ICOM as Student Members,
>able to take part in ICOM's activities, but not to hold any ICOM office.
>
>This is the way most professional bodies, including many national museum
>associations, recruit the MAJORITY of their members.
>
>Unfortunately, all such proposals to ICOM have been ferociously blocked in
>the Advisory Committee and have therefore never reached the General
>Assembly for proper consideration, let alone a vote. The only arguments
>(excuses?) I ever heard offered during my 12 years on the Advisory
>Committee and 9 years on the Executive Council were:
>
>OBJECTION 1. "In our country we don't have museology students. Everyone
>is now expected to take a PhD to work in a museum, so every one of the
>country's tens of thousands of PhD students could become ICOM members to
>get the ICOM Card and free admission, and take over the National
>Committee."
>
>ANSWER: If you don't have Museology/Museum Studies students then nobody
>from your country could apply to be a Student Member, so you do not have a
>problem.
>
>OBJECTION 2. "If too many people get free admission through having an ICOM
>Card museums will withdraw recognition from the ICOM Card."
>
>ANSWER: Most specialist advanced students already have several free
>admission cards, e.g. the UNESCO young persons card, national student
>cards etc. Also, though ICOM membership has nearly trebled in the past 20
>years no museum has ever has so many free visits from ICOM members that it
>has threatened to recognition.
>
>-------------------
>
>The ICOM Training of Personnel Committee (ICTOP) has been convinced for
>many years - like Ignatius Loyola - that "you must catch them young".
>Currently ICOM rarely recruits museum professionals until they are already
>half way through their working life - in their late thirties or older. In
>contrast, what might reasonably be called "normal" professional bodies
>recruit their members when they are in their twenties and at their most
>vigorous and enthusiastic.
>
>We have never proposed that National Committees that find the idea of
>Student Members (or even museology courses!) totally abhorrent should be
>forced to accept them. All we ask is that those National Committes that
>WANT to encourage ICOM membership amongst highly motivated younger
>professionals in this way should not be banned from doing so.
>
>
>Patrick Boylan
>Chairperson, ICOM-ICTOP
Martin Segger
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