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4.1 Future Vision
i. Your comments in response to our question:

'Please use this space to describe ways in which you consider EMII should develop to provide a value added resource to museums in your country. Feel free to address any aspect of our current remit or to propose new roles. You may be as detailed as you like and include references to publications, Web sites, iniatives etc. Whilst we are developing our vision for EMII's future activities we also want to ensure that we capture your needs and concerns.'

While this item will be discussed still in much more detail, not the least as a follow-up of the next Steering Committee meetings, 2 main remarks can certainly be made at this stage:

1) It is important to take full advantage of the European survey on which some work has been invested over the last months, but still, work has only started. This is a cumulative effort and also one which requires work to detail, so full profit can be gained only after a period of time. Continuing and improving the survey is an importnat task to be pursued further by EMII.

2) Building on the results of 1), the EMII websites and its staff services should be extended considerably, to form an authoritative, comprehensive platform for European museums. This includes both a considerably extended link list and different offers of services, such as relating to EU museum-related programmes, but also advice and useful hints on practical questions.
3) Considering that more and more work is (expected) these days (to be) carried out in projects, often extremely limited in time or even short-lived, a central reference "backbone" becomes of more and more importance. EMII is an ideal toll to form such a backbone, and should definitely be continued so as to ensure the presence of it least one stable, permanent, reliable infratsructure "backbone" to which to refer in the great and sometimes not fully overseeable wealth of individual initiatives and projects.

Submission Details
i. Submitted by: Axel Ermert on behalf of Monika Hagedorn-Saupe
ii. Job title: Deputy Head
iii. Organisation: Institute for Museum Studies, Berlin
iv. E-mail: m.hagedorn@smb.spk-berlin.de
v. Date Submitted: 04.04.2000

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