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Re: FYI: An email from ICON reTCC closure - please take 2 mins to add a comment

Hi Mary, were you able to book a room for the conference?.  I just went on the conference website and noticed that the rates had all jumped to $225 for the conference hotel (rather than the $179 listed!)  Let me know the status.
I've booked my flight and am arriving on Monday at 10:00am and will take in one of the tours in the afternoon.  I' m leaving on Thursday at 8:00 pm/

thanks
Gail.


On 5-Dec-07, at 12:58 PM, Ballard, Mary wrote:

If you wish to add comments in response to Simon Tait's article on the University of Southampton's closure of the TCC, here is the link and a note from the chair of ICON
best regards
Mary
 
 
Mary W. Ballard
Senior Textiles Conservator,
Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution
4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland MD 20746 U.S.A.
tel: 301-238-1210 fax: 301-238-3709
 
Dear all
 
Icon has assisted Simon Tait to write this article on the TCC closure in The Times.  The online version gives readers the chance to comment in the 'Have Your Say' box at the bottom.  Please will you do so BECAUSE:
 
1.  A high rate of feedback demonstrates to the editor that there is wide interest in the story.  This may help Simon do a follow story at a later date.
2.  Simon Cane sent in a letter to the Times on behalf of our Board which was not published.  If the editors see it is big news there is a chance our letter will get published now.
3.  We also helped Maev Kennedy write a piece for the Guardian but it was 'spiked'.  It will help her get her editors to run the piece in The Guardian if there is a good response to the story in the Times.
 
 
Please forward this message to your colleagues.
 
Thanks
 
Alastair McCapra
Chief Executive
ICON, The Institute of Conservation
3rd Floor, Downstream Building
1 London Bridge
London SE1 9BG
www.icon.org.uk

Tel: (+44) (0)20 7785 3803
Fax: (+44) (0)20 7785 3806
amccapra@xxxxxxxxxxx