Goals and Objectives
Goals and Objectives of ICOFOM 2010-2013
Goals
· Strengthening ICOFOM’s global impact
· Advocating the value of heritage
· Championing high standards in museums
Objectives
· To expand ICOFOM’s culturally and geographically diverse membership
· To explore ways to encourage the participation of young people and underrepresented nations
· To continue our programme of meetings, publications and communication
· To increase access to our meetings, publications and reports through the ICOFOM website and by other available and practical means
· To position the ICOFOM website as the hub of information about museology and museological activities around the world.
· To endeavour to increase access to more of our output through translation beyond the three official languages (English, French, Spanish)
· To expand our use of electronic media
· To champion diversity by providing more opportunities for those who cannot get to our meetings
· To engage more museologists by broadening our research and meeting topics and our locations
· To encourage the dissemination of museology and related subjects through courses and to involve our members in mentoring such endeavours when appropriate
· To promote exchanges among experts from ICOFOM and its two major Sub-Committees, ICOFOM LAM (Latin America and the Caribbean) and ICOFOM SIB & SAP (Siberia & South-East Asia and the Pacific)
· To foster joint work with universities and other institutions of higher learning and with training centres
· To explore collaborative ventures with other International Committees and Affiliated Organizations
· To support the expanded work of ICOFOM LAM and ICOFOM SIB & SAP
· To continue to support ongoing projects, committees and working groups:
o ARGROUP (the Argentine Research Group)
o Dictionary of Museology (formerly, Thesaurus Project)
o ICOFOM Rules of Procedure working group
o Publications and Publication Policy working group
o Evaluation/Editorial committee
· To promote the booklet, Key Concepts of Museology (now available on the ICOM website)
· To advance our latest publication, What is a Museum? published by Müller-Straten, Munich, 2011
· To operate in a more efficient manner through a system of committees
· To endeavour to raise funds from non-traditional sources, to work frugally, and to concentrate where necessary on procuring gifts-in-kind, in order to undertake our programmes and to realize our goals