In message <Pine.GSO.3.95q.1000214001032.1591B-100000@exeter>, Boylan P
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>In common with a number of other International Committees, the great
>majority (about four out of five) of the current ICTOP membership list are
>registered as "non-voting" members, for whom we receive no membership
>administration funds from ICOM or any other source.
>
(description of how non-voting members can continue to read information
now they no longer will be sent publications has been cut).

ICTOP is not the only committee to stop sending publications to voting
members, and I applaud their efforts to continue to provide information
through other, cheaper, formats.

I am not a member of ICTOP (my husband is a non-voting member).  This
leads me to ask: since non-voting members often now get nothing from
their committees, and since it is as easy for a committee to provide
information to the entire ICOM membership as it is to provide it just to
their non-voting membership, why do we have non-voting memberships any
more?  Why not have just two or three voting memberships: national
committee, subject committee and, where appropriate, regional committee?

With best wishes to all,
--
Pat Reynolds
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   "It might look a bit messy now, but just you come back in 500 years time"
   (T. Pratchett)


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