(Also available on the ICTOP web site: http://www.icom.org/ictop/) ICTOP - INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE TRAINING OF PERSONNEL OF ICOM Annual Meeting, London, 1 - 7 July 1999 Resolutions and Recommendations Resolution 1: Importance of continuing professional development Employers and museum studies and other education and training providers should work with institutions and individuals to ensure that continuing professional development planning and opportunities are available for staff in all functions and at all levels of the museum. Resolution 2: Training and indigenous people ICTOP supports and recommends the development of appropriate training strategies that will enable indigenous people and communities to develop and sustain their natural and cultural heritage. Resolution 3: Disability awareness training ICTOP is to ensure that disability awareness training is recognised as an important element in the ICOM Curricula Guidelines for Professional Development in Museums. Particular emphasis should be given to ensuring all staff in museums are exposed to such training on a continuing basis. Resolution 4: Museum training and Cultural Diversity ICTOP emphasises the need for training and career development programs to facilitate participation without discrimination of the full range of cultural, social, ethnic, religious groups, and to seek representation, balance and tolerance and co-operation across both the museum workforce and visitor clientele' Resolution 5: Museum training and environmental sustainability ICTOP encourages and recommends museum training programs worldwide to incorporate the ethics and techniques of environmental sustainability into their courses, curricula and research programs and, where possible, to link with University & College departments working in the area of environmental studies. Resolution 6: Museums and promotion of peace/attituditional change ICTOP considers that a Training Curriculum should reflect good practice in relation to attituditional change, including the promotion of peace and understanding amongst peoples. Resolution 7: ICTOP policy on services to non-voting members Recognising that ICTOP can no longer afford to finance the printing and mailing of publications and documents to more than 500 nonvoting members or "correspondents" of other Committees and organisations without any funding for this purpose adopts the following policy on services to members: 1. Printed copies of the ICTOP newsletter "it" and other documents will in future only be mailed as of right to currently registered "voting" members of ICTOP; 2. Nonvoting members and other members of ICOM will continue to be welcome at all ICTOP meetings, but in future notification of these and of other ICTOP activities and initiatives to nonvoting members will be via ICOM News and the ICOM and ICTOP web sites. The ICTOP newsletter "it" is also now available on the ICTOP web site (http://www.icom.org/ictop/). However, nonvoting members and others with a special interest in the work of ICTOP receive notification of meetings and other activities by direct e-mail circulation - on request to the Chairperson or Secretary of ICTOP, or the announced Local Organiser of the next annual meeting (as such circulation is almost cost-free). 3. Printed copies of publications and other written information will continue to be supplied by mail to nonvoting members and others for an annual payment equivalent to 100 French francs (plus the cost of any applicable bank charges), payable either to the ICTOP Treasurer, or in the form of the non-member supplement to an annual meeting registration fee. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html