Dear friends,
more than a month ago I addressed you a question on the possibly closer
contacts between museum documentation centres around the world. Regarding to
mails I have received I touched a problem which really should be  of a
concern. What I had on mind writing to you was to establish informal
co-operative contacts concerning collection management, conservation, new
books, interesting articles, study possibilities, events,exhibitions etc. As
one of you remarked,  ICOM-L is quite quiet however, I see no sense in
opening a new special mailing group, once the ICOM-L exsits.  I think we
should only get the things moving.
You certainly heard about the severe floodings in Czech Republic, Poland and
Germany. As the Czech Museum and Galleries Association found out only 2
Moravian museums' collections have been seriously damaged: the Comenius'
Museum in Prerov (Middle Moravia) - nature history collections (stuffed
animals) have been flooded and the Slovacke Muzeum in  (it is hard to
translate into English - Slovacko is a Moravian region at the Czech andn
Slovak border and it has no English term) Uherske Hradiste - here the
archaelogical collections were hit. Up to now no call for help came from them.
Our Moravian Museum in Brno, my home institution, publishes the Journal of
Moravian Museum - Nature History, Humaniaties, then Folia Ethnographica,
ANTHROPOS - series of monographs dedicated to the history of man from the
anthropological point f view and finaly ANTHROPOLOGIE - International
Journal of the Science of Man. If you or your colleagues would be interested
in receiving some of them just let me know.
As you have access to Internet I would like to invite to you to visit the
Moravian Museum web site, the URL is http://www.muni.fi.cz/mzm. I will be
grateful for your feedback.
Having any ideas how to make our communication more effective and
interesting, do not hesitate and mails us.
Nice day and stay connected.
Best wishes
Krasimir Damjanov