On: Museum Documentation Centres & further contacts
From: Jeanne Hogenboom, CIDOC Chair

Dear mr. Damjanov and mr. Pearce and other collegues interested,

Yes, it might be a good idea to have closer contacts between museum
documentation centres. CIDOC has had a Working Group on Information Centres
for quite some time. This WG has occasionally organized very useful 1 day
meetings for eg.museum libraries, planned close to CIDOC's annual
conferences. At the moment the WG has rather a low profile. The CIDOC board
has to reconsider the goals (and existence) of such low profile WG's regularly.
I would be interested to hear opinions of the ICOM membership as to what
kind of contact the museum documentation centres or information centres (or
libraries) would like to establish. If CIDOC can be of help there, we could
see what the Information Centres WG could do.

With best regards,
Jeanne Hogenboom

CIDOC Chair



At 18:58 9-07-97 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Krasimir Damjanov wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>> There is an idea in my head I would like to share with you. Do you consider
>> useful to establish close contacts between museum documentation centres all
>> over the world?Let us say via Internet, ICOM -L etc. I believe so. What do
>> you think about it?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Krasimir Damjanov
>> Head Moravian Museum
>> Documentation Centre
>> Zelny trh Square 6
>> 659 37 Brno, Czech republic
>> tel.: 00420-5-42321205, switch 212
>> fax: 00420-5-42210493
>> e-mial: [log in to unmask]
>> URL: http://www.fi.muni.cz/mzm
>>
>This seems like a splendid idea to me.
>
>John
>
>John Pearce
>Director of Museum Programs, Center for Historic Preservation
>Director, James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library
>both at Mary Washington College
>Fredericksburg, VA USA (for more address details, see below)
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>John N. Pearce                              voice/voicemail:  (540) 654-1311
>Center for Historic Preservation / James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library
>Mary Washington College                     fax:  (540) 654-1068
>1301 College Avenue
>Fredericksburg, VA 22401-5358               e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
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