(Also available on the ICTOP web site: http://www.icom.org/ictop/)


ICTOP - INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE TRAINING OF PERSONNEL OF ICOM

                   Annual Meeting, London, 1 - 7 July 1999

                       Resolutions and Recommendations

Resolution 1: Importance of continuing professional development

Employers and museum studies and other education and training providers should
work with institutions and individuals to ensure that continuing professional
development planning and opportunities are available for staff in all functions
and at all levels of the museum.


Resolution 2: Training and indigenous people

ICTOP supports and recommends the development of appropriate training
strategies that will enable indigenous people and communities to develop and
sustain their natural and cultural heritage.


Resolution 3: Disability awareness training

ICTOP is to ensure that disability awareness training is recognised as an
important element in the ICOM Curricula Guidelines for Professional Development
in Museums. Particular emphasis should be given to ensuring all staff in
museums are exposed to such training on a continuing basis.


Resolution 4: Museum training and Cultural Diversity

ICTOP emphasises the need for training and career development programs to
facilitate participation without discrimination of the full range of cultural,
social, ethnic, religious groups, and to seek representation, balance and
tolerance and co-operation across both the museum workforce and visitor
clientele'


Resolution 5: Museum training and environmental sustainability

ICTOP encourages and recommends museum training programs worldwide to
incorporate the ethics and techniques of environmental sustainability into
their courses, curricula and research programs and, where possible, to link
with University & College departments working in the area of environmental
studies.

Resolution 6: Museums and promotion of peace/attituditional change

ICTOP considers that a Training Curriculum should reflect good practice in
relation to attituditional change, including the promotion of peace and
understanding amongst peoples.


Resolution 7: ICTOP policy on services to non-voting members

Recognising that ICTOP can no longer afford to finance the printing and mailing
of publications and documents to more than 500 nonvoting members or
"correspondents" of other Committees and organisations without any funding for
this purpose adopts the following policy on services to members:

1. Printed copies of the ICTOP newsletter "it" and other documents will in
future only be mailed as of right to currently registered "voting" members of
ICTOP;

2. Nonvoting members and other members of ICOM will continue to be welcome at
all ICTOP meetings, but in future notification of these and of other ICTOP
activities and initiatives to nonvoting members will be via ICOM News and the
ICOM and ICTOP web sites. The ICTOP newsletter "it" is also now available on
the ICTOP web site (http://www.icom.org/ictop/). However, nonvoting members and
others with a special interest in the work of ICTOP receive notification of
meetings and other activities by direct e-mail circulation - on request to the
Chairperson or Secretary of ICTOP, or the announced Local Organiser of the next
annual meeting (as such circulation is almost cost-free).

3. Printed copies of publications and other written information will continue
to be supplied by mail to nonvoting members and others for an annual payment
equivalent to 100 French francs (plus the cost of any applicable bank charges),
payable either to the ICTOP Treasurer, or in the form of the non-member
supplement to an annual meeting registration fee.


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