Dear Colleague:

Following last week's well attended and, I hope, successful meeting
in London of ICTOP - The ICOM International Committee for the Training of 
Personnel - I can now forward to you the English texts of the final
versions of the Resolutions and Recommendations, and of our new Triennial
Plan. I hope to have the French translations ready in the next few days.

Both these documents are also now on the website, and you may prefer to
download and print out the web version from http://www.icom.org/ictop/

Best wishes

Patrick Boylan

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Resolutions and Recommendations of Annual Meeting, London, 1 - 7 July 1999  
  
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 non-voting 
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. Non-voting 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 non-voting 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, non-voting 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 non-voting 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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ICTOP Forward Plan for 1999 - 2001
(approved General Meeting of ICTOP, 7 July 1999)


The planning areas within the ICTOP Forward Plan are as follows: 

Promotion  
Communication  
Representation  
Co-operation/Networking  
Financial Management/Fundraising  
Review Process  


1. Promotion:

To promote training through a range of ICTOP initiatives and activities 
as follows: 

holding a plenary meeting open to every voting member at least once a 
year and a triennial plenary meeting during each ICOM General Conference, 
in accordance with the statutes of ICOM and the Model Rules for 
International Committees (i.e. meetings in London, UK, in 1999,
Victoria, Canada in 2000, and during the ICOM General Conference in 
Barcelona, Spain, in 2001. (Action by: PB, MS and IN)  

continue to develop and support the ICTOP Web site (http://www.icom.org/ictop/)
as a major resource on all aspects of museum and heritage professional 
and technical training and education, and promote the use of ICOM's Internet 
facilities and services (ICOM-L discussion list, ICOM web site, 
[log in to unmask] etc.) (Action by: PB and all ICTOP members)  

to promote and recruit to voting membership of ICTOP; (Action by: Board)  

continued dissemination of publicity (leaflet, listings and news items 
in ICOM News and through ICOM and other Internet facilities), Action 
by: PB, IN)  

Promoting ICTOP at the ICOM Triennial Conference (Barcelona, 2001) and 
at regional and national museums where practicable (Action by: PB, IN & Board)  

continue to update and promote ICOM/ICTOP's Curricula Guidelines for 
Professional Development in Museums (NF)  

support the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Museum Studies in 
maintaining and promoting the international bibliography of museology 
theses (Action by: NF and all relavant museum studies and related courses 
and centres);

establish a working area on the ICTOP web site for the exchange of 
information on museology and related research for higher degrees (PhD etc.)
 In progress; (Action by: PB and all relavant museum studies and related 
courses and centres); 

seek continuing involvement in the Nubian Museum and other ICOM training 
programmes (AFRICOM etc.) and those of related bodies (e.g. ICCROM/PREMA, 
Museum Development Centre, Mombassa, EPA, ICOM-ASPEC, International 
Committee of the Blue Shield) (Action by: Board)  

publish the proceedings of the UK (1999), Canada (2000) and Spain (2001) 
meetings of ICTOP;  

promote the distribution of all ICOM publications (Action by: AR, MB, JG);  

prepare a volume on professional training issues for an early place in 
the publication programme of the ICOM Study Series (Action by: NF, MS & MB)  

Measured by: 

Informal feedback and dialogue from members  
Numbers of new voting members  
Retention rate of existing voting members  
Completion of projects on time  
Distribution of publications  
ICTOP web site useage statistics  
numbers of new members  
retention rate of existing members  


2. Communication:

To communicate progress on ICTOP's Forward Plan to ICTOP and ICOM 
members through: 

publishing two editions of the ICTOP newsletter ("It - Information on 
Training") in both hard copy and web formats. All ICTOP members will 
continue to be urged to contribute. "It" will also carry an annual 
report of ICTOP, reports on annual plenary meetings and the annual 
financial statements (Action by: JG, PB, IN & J-PB) 

publishing this Forward Plan of ICTOP for 1999 - 2000 in "It," and on 
the ICTOP web site updated annually, and a triennial report and 
financial statement at the Barcelona 2001 General Conference. (Action 
by: PB, IN, J-PB & JG)  

Improve ICTOP Board communication by re-establishing the quarterly ICTOP 
Board Information newsletter "bit" but in e-mail format (with fax 
distribution to Board members without e-mail access (Action by: PB & Board) 

disseminating available stocks of earlier ICTOP publications (Action 
by: ICTOP members holding the various back-stocks of these)

publishing appropriate articles/news items in 'ICOM News", "Museums 
International" and other professional media. (Action by: Board)

Measured by: 

informal feedback and dialogue from members  



3. Representation

To represent ICTOP members' interests to ICOM Headquarters by: 

providing forward plan/annual report/policy proposals/meeting resolutions/
regular monitoring reports (Action by: PB, IN & J-PB)  

to contribute actively to the planned major review of ICOM's policy and 
organisation through evidence to the ICOM Secretariat, the proposed Task 
Force, meetings of the Advisory Committee, and the 2001 General Assembly 
(Coordinated by: PB)  

to continue to campaign, including through the ICOM policy and organisation 
review, for the establishment of a category of Student Member within ICOM 
for those studying on relevant advanced museum studies and related courses  

to contribute to the planned review of the ICOM Code of Ethics proposed by
the Ethics Committee (Action by: all members of ICTOP; responses coordinated 
by CN)  

maintaining informal communication with the ICOM Secretariat on a regular
 basis (Action by PB & IN)

being represented at relevant ICOM meetings by the appropriate member of the 
Board  

Measured by:  

quality and extent of response to representation contacts  



4. Co-operation/Networking

To co-operate with the International and Regional and National Committees 
of ICOM and with national and international organisations concerned with 
museums and museums professionally by: 

liaising with ICOM over appropriate specialists available to undertake 
consultancy work/training programmes for ICOM  

encouraging co-operation between training programmes, e.g. twinning of 
courses  

working with the Executive Boards of other selected International and 
Regional committees to arrange joint meetings/training programmes and 
mutual exchanges of publications and information

working at an international level with appropriate museum related 
organisations such as ICCROM and ICOMOS  

proposing, and if supported, working within a task group on curriculum 
and learning guides on "immaterial" and "living" heritage, through a
partnership between ICTOP, CAM and ICCROM,  

Measured by: 

quality and range of contacts  
longevity of relationships  
take-up of offers of support.  


5. Financial Management/Fundraising

To develop additional sources of funds for ICTOP by: 

increasing subscription income through increased voting membership 
(e.g. through issue of membership leaflet - see 1.2.1). 

Measured by: 

new funds for ICTOP  


6. Review Process

The Forward Plan will be reviewed by the Board annually. It will be 
revised as necessary and published in IT - Information on Training.  


(Last revised 15 July 1999


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