Minutes of the 62nd meeting of the Museum Council, October 9, 2007, 11:30 a.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m.
\nNational Museum of Iceland, Su\u00f0urgata, 101 Reykjav\u00edk<\/p>\n
Present were: Margr\u00e9t Hallgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir, chairman, Halld\u00f3r Bj\u00f6rn Run\u00f3lfsson, Helgi Torfason, Karl R\u00fanar \u00de\u00f3rsson, Sveinn Kristinsson, Anna \u00deorbj\u00f6rg \u00deorgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir<\/p>\n
1. Minutes of the 61st meeting approved and signed.<\/p>\n
2. Director's report<\/u>. Committee salary<\/u>: Two letters were sent to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports in accordance with the decision of the Museum Council on September 11. The first letter requested information on committee salaries for comparable committees. The second letter requested an explanation of why committee salaries were reduced without any change in workload or meeting hours. Kristj\u00e1n Run\u00f3lfsson Museum<\/u>. Since the last meeting of the Museum Council, the Council has obtained further information from the Skagfjord residents, including copies of the agreements that Kristj\u00e1n made with the Skagfjord residents. At a meeting of L\u00fd\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsson, Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, Margr\u00e9t Hallgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir, Eir\u00edkur \u00deorl\u00e1ksson and Anna \u00deorbj\u00f6rg \u00deorgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir on September 18, it was decided to put the Skagfjord residents in charge of testing the provisions in the agreements that protected the Skagfjord residents' right to the museum objects without obligation if Kristj\u00e1n left the museum. The Council is continuing to monitor the matter. F\u00cdSOS mobile school<\/u> was a success. There were no facilities to present the Museum Council's consultation project. Museum Council website<\/u>. Is in the process of being developed. Editorial policy Safnastarf.is Draft editorial policy submitted. Approved to continue on that path. Copyright issues in museums<\/u> were discussed on a broad basis. This is a complex issue that needs to be defined and examined from many angles. Accessibility for everyone<\/u> \u2013 a new consultation project by the Museum Council. Presentation postponed.<\/p>\n
3. Changed meeting times for the Museum Council<\/u>. Sveinn Kristinsson presented ideas for longer work meetings and field trips to take place in the evenings and on weekends. Also that regular meeting times be brought forward to 8:00 or back to 15:00. The proposal was discussed.<\/p>\n
4. Revised meeting schedule 2007<\/u>. It was agreed that the meetings of the Museum Council until the end of the year would take place: Monday 22 October, Tuesday 13 November and Thursday 13 December. The working meeting which, according to the decision of the Museum Council on 9 September, was to take place on 9 October but was postponed at the request of Sveinn Kristinsson, will be held on Monday 22 October.<\/p>\n
5. UNESCO Committee Expert Meeting<\/u>. Discussion adjourned.<\/p>\n
6. Possible consultation projects<\/u>. Discussion adjourned.<\/p>\n
7. Consultation meeting between F\u00cdSOS and the Museum Council<\/u>Approved proposal from Karl R\u00fanar \u00de\u00f3rssson for a joint meeting organized by F\u00cdSOS and the Museum Council in connection with the F\u00cdSOS annual meeting on November 9th. The topic of discussion at the meeting will be access to museums.<\/p>\n
8. Copyright issues-introduction<\/u>. Kn\u00fatur Bruun, chairman of Myndstef, came to a meeting of the Museum Council and presented animal rights issues in museums. Kn\u00fatur wants the Museum Council to promote the conclusion of a single agreement with Myndstef that can be adapted to the different needs of different museums. The Museum Council will investigate the matter. <\/p>\n
9. Lecture \u2013 Icelandic Technical Museum<\/u>, preparatory committee. The report was postponed until the next meeting of the council on October 22nd.<\/p>\n
10. Charter of the Icelandic Design Museum<\/u>The Executive Director was instructed to prepare a draft letter to the Ministry of Education for the next meeting of the Council on October 22nd. <\/p>\n
11. Next meeting and other matters<\/u>The next meeting was scheduled for October 22nd in connection with a full-day working meeting of the Museum Council.<\/p>\n
There was no further discussion and the meeting adjourned at 1:15 PM\/UTC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minutes of the 62nd meeting of the Museum Council, 9 October 2007, at 11:30 \u2013 13:00 National Museum of Iceland, Su\u00f0urgata, 101 Reykjav\u00edk Present: Margr\u00e9t Hallgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir, Chairman, Halld\u00f3r Bj\u00f6rn Run\u00f3lfsson, Helgi Torfason, Karl R\u00fanar \u00de\u00f3rsson, Sveinn Kristinsson, Anna \u00deorbj\u00f6rg \u00deorgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir 1. Minutes of the 61st meeting approved and signed. 2. Report of the Executive Director. Committee fees: Two letters were sent to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in accordance with the decision of the Museum Council \u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":964,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-972","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/972\/revisions\/973"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}