REVISIONS TO ICOM BASIC SYLLABUS REACH DISCUSSION DRAFT STAGE

Over the past three years ICOM's International Committee for the Training
of Personnel (ICTOP) has been working on an update of the ICOM Basic
Syllabus for museum training programmes.  Most of the work has been
co-ordinated through office of Nancy Fuller at the Smithsonian, Washington.
A draft of the new document "Curriculum Guidelines for Personnel
Development in Museums (Draft: May 1998)" is now available for review by
the international community.  Accompanying this document is an extensive
bibliography on the subject of museum training and career development.  The
main feature of the revisions is to move away from a topical syllabus
format, to a competency based "curriculum" which reflects current
methodological practices in the field of human resources development.  The
complete document can be viewed at the ICTOP web site:

http://www.maltwood.uvic.ca/ictop-nest.html

Martin Segger
Chair, ICTOP

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Prof. Martin Segger, Director Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery/University
Auditorium
(& Chair ICTOP/ICOM)
University of Victoria, PO.Box 3025, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8W 3P2
Tel: (250) 721-8298 or (250)721-8299  e-mail:[log in to unmask]
Visit the Maltwood and ICOM/ICTOP website: URL: http://www.maltwood.uivic.ca
For the Dubrovnik course "Toward a Museology of Reconciliation" May  11-17
1998 see the website:
http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/Dubrov.htm