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Dear All,

I had envisaged that Young-Icom would work in a similar way to Africom.
No one has suggested (and it hasn't been the case) that a supra-national
committee has deprived the subject specialist committees of talent and
time.

As someone who was a board member of an ICOM committee while I would
have been of an age to be in Young-ICOM (now I'm too old....), I think
that the reverse is true.  

I also second Mario's opinion that the committees aren't doing a lot at
the moment.  I last heard from one committee about seven years ago, when
they said 'pay us extra to get the publications, or we won't send them',
After a silence of years, the other committee contacted me a few months
ago with the announcement of a forthcoming conference, and asking for
feedback, which I gave, including asking for further details on the
conference.... I've not heard anything since.

If Young ICOM trains people up in international working, and feeds them
into the boards and working parties of committees, things can (to quote
a politicised song) only get better.  I don't see them getting any
worse.

Cheers,

Pat




In message <[log in to unmask]>, Colette
Dufresne Tassé <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Mario,
>
>To Patrick's opinion, I would like to add that this new international
>committee would potentially deprive the other International Committees of
>their young members.  This, I think would be a very sad reprecaution.
>
>In all this business of young people, one should remember that until very
>recently, enven graduates students in museum studies were not allowed
>membership!  So with the change in ICOM membership rules, we could expect to
>see many more young people participating to conferences and other
>activities.  
>
>C. Dufresne-Tassé,
>President CECA
>
>
>Le 25/08/05 06:57, « P Boylan » <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :
>
>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Mario Bucolo wrote:
>> 
>> +++++ [CLIP] +++++
>> 
>>> Last week I meet, informally, in Paris the ICOM General Secretary and we
>>> talk about this idea. He was happy about this initiative and he want to look
>>> again to the proposal after a better definition about who will join the
>>> group, the group goals and strategic plan to achieve the goals.
>>> He was very clear that the creation of a new International Committees inside
>>> ICOM it will be difficult (also regarding burocracy) and with long times
>>> (about Vienna 2007 general assembly).
>> 
>> =================
>> 
>> Mario:
>> 
>> Please remember that if your suggested Group is eventually constituted as
>> an official ICOM International Committee any "younger" ICOM member joining
>> it would not be allowed to be a full ("voting") member in any other
>> International Committee, such as the International Committee for their own
>> academic or professional specialisation (ICME, Nat Hist, CECA, ICMS or
>> whatever). (This is clear under the Statutes and Rules of ICOM, which
>> allow full membership in only one International Committee at a time.)
>> 
>> I am sure that nobody - least of all the younger members - would want to
>> cut themselves off from perhaps more senior professional colleagues in
>> their own specialisation in this way, so some other structure would be
>> needed.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Patrick Boylan
>> 
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