October 2012 E-Newsletter

Manon Blanchette, Ph.D.

Message from the President of ICOM Canada

Dear Colleague,

As the year 2012 comes to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continuous support of ICOM Canada and its activities. With a new year ahead, it is once again time to reaffirm this support by renewing your membership for 2013.

Although ICOM (Paris) has provided us with a new membership fee structure for 2012, the ICOM Canada Board has decided, after careful review, to maintain the current fees as per the year 2012.

As a reminder, I am happy to provide you with the structure as it stood last year and which will remain in effect for 2013:

For individuals: $115.00

Students: $50.00

Retired Professional: $80.00

For institutions:

  • Budgets up to $50,000: fee is $500
  • Budgets between $50,000 – $150,000: fee is $700
  • Budgets between $150,000 – 1,500,000: fee is $900
  • Budgets between $1,500,000 –  $8,000.000: fee is $1,100
  • Budgets between $8,000,000 – $15,000,000: fee is $1,300
  • Budgets over $15,000,000: fee is $1,500

The number of ICOM cards for institutions with budgets over $50,000 is as follows:

  • Budgets up to $50,000: 3 cards
  • Budgets between $50,000 – $150,000: 4 cards
  • Budgets between $150,000 – 1,500,000: 5 cards
  • Budgets between $1.500,000 –  $8.000.000: 6 cards
  • Budgets between $8,000,000 – $15,000,000: 7 cards
  • Budgets over $15,000,000: 8 cards

I hope that you will not only renew your own membership, but will also take this opportunity to encourage your institution and fellow staff and colleagues to join ICOM as individual members in order to increase our representation on the world stage and spread the values of ICOM more widely.

ICOM offers a large number of very active, specialized committees for museum professionals like you to participate in. I strongly encourage you to join one of them in order to share the excellence of Canadian Museology with members throughout the world. To choose a committee, please visit the ICOM (Paris) website.

ICOM Canada has already more than 500 members. We are convinced that we can increase that number significantly if each one of us is committed to doing so. 

On behalf of the Board of ICOM Canada, I thank you in advance for your commitment and your support.

Sincerely,

 

Manon Blanchette Ph.D.

President

ICOM Canada

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