Historic preservation professional qualification standards

It may be useful to bring to the attention of the relevant authorities
at your National Parks Service the April '95 meeting on this subject,
organised by ICOM (International Council on Museums)--Conservation
Committee, Working Group on Training and Education, entitled:  A
qualified community: towards internationally agreed standards of
qualification for conservation.

Further details from : Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg

    Postbus 1679
    6201 BR Maastricht
    + 31 43 218 444
    Netherlands

That should be motivation for the NPS to send a representative to the
meeting; the matter is crucial to the development of a professional
ethic; I'd love to be there myself!


    **** Moderator's comments:   A reminder that comments on the
    proposed draft revision of the Secretary of the Interior's "Historic
    Preservation Professional Qualification Standards." are due February
    14, 1995. Anyone involved with Historic Preservation should pick up
    a copy from Conservation OnLine.

    The document is available in two forms.  Use a World Wide Web client
    such as Mosaic or Lynx to connect to URL
    <URL:http://cool.conservation-us.org/misc/dated-docs/secinterior/profqual/>

    or Gopher to palimpsest.stanford.edu and select
        Browse by subject
        Historic preservation

Dale Peters
Paper Conservator

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