Dear Garry,

I support entirely the position of P. Boylan as I share the same
observations.

C. Dufresne-Tassé,
CECA


Le 14/07/05 05:34, « P Boylan » <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :

> Dear Gary,
> 
> I think that there needs to be some consideration as to what the
> institutional members want the extra cards for.  Are these just for the
> purpose of passing them around staff travelling abroad etc. who want to
> have free admission to fee-charging museums?  Or do the institutional
> members want to pay for NAMED members of their staff to serve as their
> representatives within ICOM and to play a full part as active members of
> ICOM, serving on international committees and running for office within
> ICOM etc.?
> 
> This issue has been discussed several times previously over the years.
> As everyone recognises, nowadays ICOM is massively under-represented among
> the staff of the larger national and other major museums of the world,
> and my impression is that the proportion who are ICOM members is falling
> rather than increasing.  One of the main concerns in the past has been
> the risk that if the museum if simply given a handful of ICOM membership
> cards to pass around the staff when they are planning to visit other
> museums, then even fewer staff members of major museums would join ICOM.
> 
> (We have heard of cases where the present two or three ICOM Cards are held
> by e.g. the museum librarian or personnel officer and "signed out" to
> staff members going on holiday to countries which have admission charges
> for museums, with no thought of anyone using them to take part in ICOM
> activities such as attending ICOM meetings or becoming active within
> ICOM Committees.)
> 
> On the other hand, if the plan was to allow the larger institutional
> members to nominate additional NAMED staff members to be active members of
> all parts of ICOM's work, especially within the national and
> international committees, specialist working groups etc. then this would
> could be a very good thing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Patrick
> 
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