Australia
ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 417
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An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS
Secretariat
Friday 18 December 2009
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HAPPY
HOLIDAYS TO ALL
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Australia
ICOMOS would like to take this opportunity to wish all our friends and
colleagues a safe and enjoyable holiday season
1)
Australia ICOMOS Secretariat Office closure for the holiday season –
REMINDER
2)
Call for EOI for Co-opted members of the Executive Committee of Australia
ICOMOS – REMINDER
3)
Link to recent DEWHA media release
4)
US ICOMOS Intern Program 2010
5)
Symposium announcement – Heritage Recording and Information Management in
the Digital Age
6)
Invitation and Call for Papers – National/International: Arts and
politics in houses and interiors of the 20th century
7)
ISC Members and Associates – please respond to questionnaire concerning
Burra Charter
8)
Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network (SSN) Conference – call for
papers
9)
News from the ICOMOS Documentation Centre
10) Link
to Heritage Tasmania’s E-newsletter
11) The
Archival Platform’s December newsletter– available online
12) UNITAR
2010: Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites – call for
applications
13) The
Third Arte-Polis International Conference – call for papers
Situations
Vacant
14)
Heritage Planner, Heritage Victoria
15) Head of
the ICOMOS Documentation Centre, ICOMOS International, Paris
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1) Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Office closure for the holiday season – REMINDER
The Australia ICOMOS office
will be closed from COB Friday 18 December 2009 to Wednesday 13 January 2010
inclusive. The office will reopen from Thursday 14 January 2010.
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2) Call for EOI for Co-opted
members of the Executive Committee of Australia ICOMOS – REMINDER
The Executive Committee is now
calling for Expressions of Interest for two vacant positions on the EC for
2010.The period of co-option lasts until the 2010 AGM, at which time the
co-optee can decide to stand for election to the EC through the usual
nomination of committee members process.
The Criteria for this years
co-opted positions are:
a) Full financial Member status
b)
one position is available for a member based in Tasmania who would take on the task
of State Representative
c)
one position based in NSW (greater Sydney metropolitan area) who will take on
the task of State Representative.
d)
each of the positions will also take on the responsibility for another task,
either:
§
Publications
Co-ordinator: ie. for general publications such as guidelines/brochures and
annual report but EXCLUDING HE and the e-news.
§
Working group
Co-ordinator: responsible for helping the group convenor of each group develop
a work program and goals for three new active working groups that have been
developed to drive specific issues of interest to AI. This position will
be a conduit between these working groups and the EC.
If you are interested in
getting more actively involved in Australia ICOMOS this is an excellent way to
do so. You will be working with an enthusiastic and friendly team of
people and will have a lot of fun along the way.
Your time commitments would
be: 4 x 1.5 day meetings per year; one of which will be associated with the AGM.
The meetings are spread around the member states and usually associated with a
professional/social event for members in that state. The schedule for
2010 is: February 27/28 – Hobart; May 29/30 – Melbourne; August
28/29 – Sydney; November 27/28 (and AGM) – ACT.
All Executive Committee
members make a significant commitment to the organisation, giving up not only
their time but also paying the first $300 of travel costs to each of these
meetings. Any cost over and above this will be reimbursed.
State Reps play an important
role as 'the face of AI' in each state. They organise occasional
professional and social events for members and provide a general report to
members on the highlights of the Exec meetings. They also bring forward
issues of relevance to members in their state, where these are brought to their
attention. These are vital roles in the organisation and are a great way to
meet people and network. You will not have to invent your position from scratch
as there are others on the EC who currently hold and who have held similar
roles in the past.
Form of application
If you wish to submit an EOI
please provide:
1.
a brief statement of no more than 500 words outlining which task you are
interested in and why you believe you would be suited to the position
2.
a copy of your Curriculum Vitae
3.
a clear indication of whether you are based in Sydney or Hobart
The deadline for submission of
EOIs is COB Friday 22 January 2010. EOIs should be submitted via
email to the Secretariat Officer Georgia Meros at austisomos@deakin.edu.au. Successful applicants will be expected to attend the
February 2010 meeting in Hobart.
If you have any specific queries
regarding these positions please call Susan McIntyre-Tamwoy on 0425 215 012. We
look forward to hearing from you!
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3) Link to recent DEWHA media
release
Tarkine emergency listed
for national heritage
http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/garrett/2009/mr20091211.html
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4) US ICOMOS Intern Program
2010
Applications are now being
invited for interns in this year’s US ICOMOS International Exchange
Program. Applications must be made by nomination through Australia ICOMOS.
Nominations will be confirmed at the first meeting of the AI Executive
Committee in 2010. We regret the awkward timing of the call and US ICOMOS is
aware of the problem.
Applicants must be full
members of Australia ICOMOS, have adequate experience and the clear opportunity
to travel in the middle of the year.
More information about the
program can be found at http://www.usicomos.org/intern/overview
If you are interested please
contact Timothy Hubbard, the US Intern Coordinator on (03) 5568 2623 or 0419
353 195. He will be available on these numbers throughout the
Christmas/New Year break.
All interns return with very
positive comments about the life-changing experience.
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5) Symposium announcement
– Heritage Recording and Information Management in the Digital Age
The Graduate Program in
Historic Preservation/School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania in
collaboration with the R. Lemaire International Centre for Conservation
(University of Leuven) are organizing an International Symposium on Heritage
Recording and Information Management in the Digital Age (SMARTDoc Heritage),
March 26-27, 2010 in Philadelphia, USA.
Beginning in 2006 Robin
Letelier brought his vision of an integrated graduate level course in heritage
recording, documentation and information management to the Program in Historic
Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. Today that course
curriculum, now under the direction of Mario Santana, represents the synthesis
of principles and practices considered fundamental knowledge for all heritage
professionals. This symposium, initially planned by Robin at UPenn, is
dedicated to that vision and his tireless effort to promote heritage
conservation through research, teaching, and public service.
Good decisions in heritage
conservation are based on timely, relevant and accurate information about the
conditions, materials and evolution of heritage buildings and landscapes.
Therefore, documenting, recording and analyzing heritage places are an
essential part of their conservation and management.
The rapid rise in new digital
technologies has revolutionized the practice of recording the built
heritage. Digital tools and media offer a myriad of new opportunities for
collecting, analyzing and disseminating information about heritage sites.
Issues regarding the proper, innovative and research-focused uses of digital
media in heritage conservation are an urgent topic in the global heritage
conservation field, and Penn, KU-Leuven and its partners have played a leading
role in this area of cross-disciplinary research and practice. The
SMARTdoc symposium offer a unique opportunity for educators, professionals,
heritage institutions, and managers of heritage places to share, exchange, and
explore new approaches, best practices, and research results in the area of
heritage informatics.
More information about the
symposium: http://www.smartdocheritage.org
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6) Invitation and Call for
Papers – National/International: Arts and politics in houses and
interiors of the 20th century
Brno, Czech Republic,
21–24 April 2010, at the Moravian Gallery (Moravske galerie), in
cooperation with the international ICOM Committees for Decorative Arts (ICDAD)
and Historic House Museums (DEMHIST).
§ Is modernism an “international”
phenomenon? Are there national monuments in an international style? Were there
“national” styles in the 20th century, at all? Ten years after,
facing globalisation, it is time to ask questions about two of the most
important currents in the past century: nationalism and modernism. By tracing
types of houses and rooms, the conference will address the villa as a form and
means of social and political representation.
§
A main focus will
be on the relationships of central European architecture to Vienna, Berlin,
Paris, London and Glasgow. The Villa Tugendhat and the Jurkovic House in Brno,
and Josef Hoffmann’s birthplace in Brtnice, set prominent examples for an
opposition of “national” and “international” styles
created or chosen by architects or owners. Do these styles of architecture and
interior design mix at random in this region, or is the choice significant for
the client and the architect or designer?
§
The conference
will investigate the historical and theoretical implications as well as the
outcome of these choices. By contrast, examples for housing and gardening from
western, northern and central Europe, as well as from outside Europe, shall
complement the Moravian experience.
Preliminary programme
§ Two working days of lectures and contributions by
invited speakers and other leading professionals – museum curators,
historians and art historians, architects, designers, and theoreticians from
European countries, America and Asia, to be presented in Czech and English.
Simultaneous translation to and from Czech and English will be provided.
§
Visits to houses
in Brno (the Reissig House – arch. Leopold Bauer, architect Dusan
Jurkovic’s own house, Villa Stiassny – arch. Ernest Wiesner,
Tugendhat Villa – arch. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Post-conference tours
§ Luhacovice Spa, Dusan Jurkovic, 1901–1903,
“New Slavonic metropolis”; Zlin – “Bata town”
(worker’s housing – arch. Frantisek Lydie Gahura, Bata Headquarters
– arch. Vladimir Karfik)
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Brtnice –
Josef Hoffmann Birthplace; Libodrice – Adolf Bauer House (arch. Josef
Gocar); Prague – Villa Müller (arch. Adolf Loos)
The conference is intended for
museum professionals, academic teachers and students, free-lance curators,
historians, designers, art and design theoreticians, journalists, etc.
The Moravian Gallery in Brno,
the second largest art museum in the Czech Republic, is exceptional for the
wide range of artistic disciplines it covers. It is the only institution in the
country collecting visual art that is concerned with painting, drawing, graphic
art and sculpture – from the past and the present – as well as
photography, applied art, graphic design and architecture.
More detailed information and
the application form will be available as of January 2010 at www.moravska-galerie.cz, www.icom-icdad.com and www.demhist.icom.museum.
The conference is made
possible by funds from the EU Culture Programme 2007–2013. Project title:
Architecture and Interior Design in Central Europe in the early twentieth
century. Josef Hoffmann and Dusan Jurkovic. A joint project of the Moravian
Gallery in Brno, MAK–Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art,
Vienna, the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava and ICOM–ICDAD.
Contact address
National – International
– Conference
Katerina Tlachova
Moravian Gallery in Brno
Husova 18
CZ-662 26 Brno
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 532 169 128
Fax: +420 532 169 181
E-mail: katerina.tlachova@moravska-galerie.cz
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7) ISC Members and Associates
– please respond to questionnaire concerning Burra Charter
Members of ISCs are strongly
encouraged to respond to a request for input to the Burra Charter Review.
The short questionnaire is
included below:
Use
of Burra Charter in relation to ISC doctrine/charters
Questions
Please
complete this short questionnaire for each ISC that you are on
1.
Which ISC(s) are you on? (What type of member are you?)
2.
List any doctrine or charters prepared by your ISC – feel free to include
a copy of this doctrine/charter in you reply.
3.
Is this doctrine or charter clear, and user friendly?
4.
Have you applied the doctrine or charter in Australia?
5.
If so, was it useful? (Explain what aspects were useful)
6.
Should the doctrine or charter be more widely used in Australian practice?
Would you see benefits in the charter/doctrine being more widely used in
Australia?
7.
Does it fill a gap in the Burra Charter, or provide other benefits? (Give
details and say if it is a principle, concept, practice, language, tone, or
other matter)
8.
Does it conflict with the Burra Charter in any way?
9. Do
you have any other comments? Eg in relation to the use of the Burra Charter for
the types of places that are the subject of this ISC?
A few responses have been
received but NOT MANY, especially considering the large amount of time on ISC
activities at abroad and at home.
Input is needed about concepts
and ideas that are 'missing' from the Burra charter, and/or about concepts and
ideas that could be improved (in relation to the ISC subject).
Send comments to Meredith
Walker heritagefutures@bigpond.com, or Sandy Blair Sandy Blair sandy.blair@anu.edu.au, by 7 January 2010.
Many thanks,
Meredith Walker and Sandy
Blair
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8) Histories of Home Subject
Specialist Network (SSN) Conference – call for papers
HISTORIES OF HOME SUBJECT
SPECIALIST NETWORK (SSN)
SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Friday 21 May 2010, British
Library, London
Multiple belongings:
DIASPORA AND TRANSNATIONAL HOMES
The Histories of Home Subject
Specialist Network (SSN) invites papers for its second annual conference, to be
held in London at the British Library on Friday 21 May 2010.
The conference will examine
migrants’ homes across the globe from early civilisations to the present.
We are particularly interested in the material aspects of setting up home in
another country, such as room layouts, furnishings and other possessions and
how these are adapted, integrated or negotiated between host nation and place
of origin.
For further information, please
see the attached
notice.
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9) News from the ICOMOS
Documentation Centre
§ Nouvelle publication sur l'architecture en terre:
"Bâtir en terre: Du grain de sable à l'architecture" (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/12/nouvelle-publication-sur-larchitecture.html)
§ IFLA Newsletter, n° 85 (Competitions issue - November
2009) (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/12/ifla-newsletter-n-85-competition-issue.html)
§ 'Preservation vs. Development': An interview with the
ICOMOS President Gustavo Araoz on TV (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/preservation-vs-development-interview.html)
§ Modern heritage properties (19th and 20th Centuries)
on the World Heritage List (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/modern-heritage-properties-19th-and.html)
§ Conserving architecture: Planned conservation of XX
Century Architectural Heritage (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/conserving-architecture-planned.html)
§ Conservation Perspectives: The Getty Conservation
Institute Newsletter, Vol. 24, 2 (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/conservation-getty-conservation.html)
§ ICCROM Newsletter n° 35 - October 2009 - Special
edition (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/iccrom-newsletter-n-35-october-2009.html)
§ INORA, the International Newsletter on Rock Art, n°
55, 2009 (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/inora-international-newsletter-on-rock.html)
§ Museum International n° 243: ICCROM Commemorating
Excellence – available (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/museum-international-n-243-iccrom.html)
§ “Earth, Wind, Water, Fire - Environmental
challenges to Urban World Heritage” (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/earth-wind-water-fire-environmental.html)
§ 'Conserving the authentic: essays in honour of Jukka
Jokilehto': An ICCROM publication (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/conserving-authentic-essays-in-honour.html)
§ CIPA: Proceedings of the 22nd CIPA Symposium, 11-15
October 2009, Kyoto, Japan (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/cipa-proceedings-of-22nd-cipa-symposium.html)
§ ICOMOS France: Petit traité des Grands Sites:
Réfléchir et agir sur les hauts lieux de notre patrimoine (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/petit-traite-des-grands-sites-reflechir.html)
§ Nouvelle publication: Pierre et patrimoine:
connaissance et conservation (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/nouvelle-publication-pierre-et.html)
§ Proceedings of the Scientific Symposium 'Finding the
spirit of place' (Quebec 2008) - available online (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/11/proceedings-of-scientific-symposium.html)
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10) Link to Heritage
Tasmania’s E-newsletter
To view the December 2009
issue of Heritage Tasmania’s E-newsletter, visit
http://www.heritage.tas.gov.au/showItem.php?id=1645
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11) The Archival
Platform’s December newsletter– available online
The Archival Platform is a
networking, advocacy and research initiative in the archive and heritage sector
in South Africa.
The Archival Platform’s
December newsletter is now on their website, and you can subscribe online:
http://www.archivalplatform.org/news/entry/archival_platform_december_newsletter/
Submissions of relevant
comments, blogs, news and resources very welcome.
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12) UNITAR 2010: Management and
Conservation of World Heritage Sites – call for applications
The United Nations Institute
for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the call for
applications for the Seventh Session in its Series on the Management and
Conservation of World Heritage Sites, to take place between 18-23 April 2010, in
Hiroshima, Japan. Entitled Conservation for Peace: World Heritage Conservation
Monitoring, the Session will focus on issues surrounding the monitoring of
World Heritage Sites, as required by the World Heritage Convention.
The Series aims to facilitate a
further utilization of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention through
providing both support to national policy-making and planning, as well as
information exchange on best practices and case-studies. Newly developed
“values-based management” methodologies are applied to all aspects
of natural and cultural heritage management.
Specifically, the workshop
will:
§ Review the basics of the World Heritage regime and its
implications
§ for peace, incorporating current trends and updates;
§ Elucidate the underlying principles of
“values-based heritage
§ management”, with a particular focus on
Conservation Monitoring;
§ Review the basics of World Heritage management
planning;
§ Examine leading policies and strategies, identifying
best practices
§ and lessons learned;
§ Create long-term management plans for sites;
§ Create or contribute to a manual for site managers on
World Heritage
§ management planning;
§ Enhance long-term peer learning and exchange among the
participants.
Study tours to two World
Heritage sites in Hiroshima –the Atomic Bomb (
Genbaku) Dome and the
Itsukushima Shinto Shrine – will provide additional case studies and
learning opportunities.
Twenty participants will be
selected from actual or potential heritage site managers; natural/cultural
conservation specialists and trainers; and decision makers and government
officials within national world heritage administrations, i.e. Ministries of
Environment, Culture, Forestry or Tourism, as well as national academic
institutions, think-tanks and civil society. Kindly submit the names of
suitable candidates to participate in the training workshop for final selection
by an ad hoc selection committee.
On-line applications are
encouraged at: http://www.unitar.org/hiroshima/on-line_application_form/whs/10.
In principle participants
and/or their ministries/organizations are required to provide their own travel funding
to and from Hiroshima. Accommodation, meals, study tours and tuition fees will
be covered by UNITAR for the duration of the Session.
There are a limited number of
UNITAR scholarships which also cover travel costs, given in priority to
participants from Least Developed Countries as defined by the United Nations.
The number of places being
limited, those wishing to apply should do so as soon as possible and no later
than 19 February 2010.
For further information, please
refer to the two attached notices (Instructions
for case study and letter of motivation, and 2010
infonote) and the website at
http://www.unitar.org/hiroshima/unitar-activities/world-heritage-sites
Should you have any questions,
please contact Mr. Berin McKenzie at berin.mckenzie@unitar.org.
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13) The Third Arte-Polis
International Conference – call for papers
The Third Arte-Polis International
Conference on CREATIVE COLLABORATION AND THE MAKING OF PLACE Learning from
Shared Creative Experiences Bandung - Indonesia, 22-24 July 2010
1st Announcement – Call
for Papers – Abstracts due 22 FEBRUARY 2010
Building on the successes of
the first two Arte-Polis international conferences in 2006 and
2008, Institute of Technology Bandung is pleased to present
Arte-Polis 3, an international conference with the theme "Creative
Collaboration and the Making of Place: Learning from Shared Creative
Experiences". This biennial event is an initiative of the
Architecture Program at ITB’s School of Architecture, Planning and
Policy Development
in collaboration with other creative institutions, to
be held on 22-24 July
2010 in Bandung, Indonesia's city with a long heritage of creative culture,
communities and collaborations.
The aim of Arte-Polis 3 is to
bring together practitioners, academics, community leaders, local government
officials, policy-makers and other professionals from diverse disciplines and
regions around the world concerned with the quality of life and collaborative
nature of creative communities in urban, rural and pastoral places. Its
objective is to share and learn from international and local experiences
regarding current issues, best practices and policy implications of creative
collaborations on place-making.
Information concerning themes,
keynote speakers and critical dates can be found at http://www.arte-polis.info/. The conference flier is also available for download.
For further information,
contact:
Organizing Committee,
Arte-Polis 3 International Conference
Attn. Dr.Eng. Arif Sarwo
Wibowo Conference Convenor
Architecture Program - School
of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development Institute of Technology
Bandung (ITB)
Lab.Tek IXB, Jalan Ganesha 10,
Bandung 40132, INDONESIA
Tel. (+62-22) 7620-6053 AND
250-4962
Fax (+62-22) 253-0705
E-mails: artepolis@ar.itb.ac.id AND artepolis_itb@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.arte-polis.info
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14) Heritage Planner, Heritage
Victoria
Heritage Planner
§ $63,358 - $71,887 plus 9% super
§ Ongoing / Fixed term: 3 days per week (job share
arrangement)
Do you have an understanding
of the philosophical and practical issues related to the conservation of cultural
heritage places? Are you a team player with sound analytical problem
solving skills? Do you have a keen eye for details? If so, this may
be the role for you.
As Heritage Planner you will
work with local government and the community to provide heritage advice and
assistance for the protection of heritage places through the planning system
and under the Heritage Act 1995.
To apply and access the
position description visit www.careers.vic.gov.au
and refer to position number DPCD/PLG/500985
Closing date for applications
is Wednesday 23 December 2009
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15) Head of the ICOMOS
Documentation Centre, ICOMOS International, Paris
ICOMOS (the International
Council on Monuments and Sites) is an association of over 9000 cultural
heritage professionals present in over 100 countries throughout the world,
working for the conservation and protection of monuments and sites – the
only global non-government organisation of its kind. It benefits from the
cross-disciplinary exchange of its members – architects, archaeologists,
art historians, engineers, historians, planners, who foster improved heritage
conservation standards and techniques for all forms of cultural properties:
buildings, historic towns, cultural landscapes, archaeological sites, etc.
ICOMOS is officially recognized as an advisory body to UNESCO, actively
contributing to the World Heritage Committee and taking part in the implementation
of the World Heritage Convention.
The ICOMOS International
Secretariat and its specialized Documentation Centre are located in Paris
(France). The Documentation Centre specializes in the conservation of
architectural and archaeological heritage; and the restoration and management
of historic monuments and sites. Its collections include approximately 30,000
monographs and 600 periodicals (200 current). It also holds all the original
nomination files for cultural properties proposed for inscription on the UNESCO
World Heritage List. It is open to ICOMOS members and the general public. In
2012, ICOMOS will move to new premises in Charenton (Paris) together with the
Mediathèque de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine of France.
The Head of the Documentation Centre
reports to the Director of the ICOMOS International Secretariat, and the
Executive Committee of ICOMOS.
The Head of the Documentation
Centre is responsible, among other, for:
§
Contributing to
and implementing the strategy established for the Documentation Centre by the
Executive Committee and its Documentation and Publications working group
§
Cataloguing and
indexing of books and journal articles
§
Updating the
bibliographic database and the website of the Documentation Centre
§
Managing the
periodicals collection
§
Welcoming and
assisting visitors in the reading room
§
Responding to
information requests (by email, telephone, fax)
§
Establishing and
monitoring the Centre’s budget (in cooperation with the ICOMOS
accountant)
§
Reporting to the ICOMOS
bodies and funders on the Centre’s activities
§
Managing the sale
of ICOMOS publications and ensuring their legal deposit
§
Managing the
publications exchange programme with other organizations
§
Managing the
ICOMOS Open Access Repository
§
Communicating the
Centre’s news and work, in particular through the ICOMOS newsletters
§
Recruit and
supervise interns and volunteers for the Centre
§
Liaising with the
other Secretariat units, in particular the World Heritage Unit – and
provide support when needed.
§
Collaborating
with other libraries and Documentation Centre’s at the international
level
The candidate must have the
following knowledge and skills:
§
A University
degree in librarianship and/or documentation, or an equivalent qualification in
information management
§
Computer
literacy, excellent command of bibliographic database software, knowledge of
Open Access Repositories
§
Ability to create
and maintain web pages (knowledge of HTML, Dreamweaver)
§
Excellent
knowledge of ICOMOS’ working languages: English and French. Knowledge of
another ICOMOS official language (Spanish, Russian) or other languages will be
considered an advantage
§
Interpersonal/Communication
skills and ability to deal with the public, team spirit, initiative, ability to
work independently and to deadlines.
§
2 or 3 years work
experience is considered an advantage
§
Knowledge of
cultural heritage conservation, art history and related fields is considered an
advantage
1-year-renewable contract,
with starting date 1 March 2010
French work permit required
A letter of application,
detailed curriculum vitae and two references (if available) should be sent by
email to gaia.jungeblodt@icomos.org, by 20 January 2010.
Shortlisted candidates will be
interviewed in Paris.
Contact for queries and
applications: Gaia Jungeblodt, Director of the ICOMOS International Secretariat
– gaia.jungeblodt@icomos.org / Tel. + 33 (0)1 45 67 67 70.
For further information on ICOMOS,
please consult www.icomos.org
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Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Georgia Meros, Secretariat Officer
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood Victoria 3125
Telephone: (03) 9251 7131
Facsimile: (03) 9251 7158
Email: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
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