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XI. Access to the Primrose International Viola Archive Schmidt is encouraged to contact David Day, PIVA curator, and work out a more effective Interlibrary Loan policy, and to copy Dalton.

August 5 VI. Australian & New Zealand Congress, 2001 Maurice informs about organizational matters. Maurice and Vidulich acting as co-hosts, and meeting with steering com mittee once a month. Congress sponsored by Massey University in Wellington. Officially, Congress should be addressed as ''Australian & New Zealand Congress." VII. Bylaws Pounds asked to revise the awards pro posal according to Presidency's recom mendations. (Motion: Schmidt; Second: Cantor; carried) VIII. Election ofnew IVS Officers Timetable: Nominating committee will consist of 3 or 4 members of the Presidency appointed by the President who will act as ex-officio. Election takes place by September 30, 2001, and new officers will assume positions January 1, 2002. (Motion: Pounds; Second: Cantor; carried) The committee will solicit recom mendations from national section officers, and will be sensitive that various cate gories of violists be considered. Make-up and function of nominating committee need to be approved and added to Bylaws. IX. New IVS Logo A number of models for a new logo and letterhead are presented and preliminarily voted upon. X. Emerging National Sections Lenkewitz and Pounds, who oversee new sections, report. Cantor is working with connections in Barcelona and Israel. Dalton reports on his relations with Les Amis de l'Alto in France. Lenkewitz is asked to contact Miroslav Miletic in Zagreb. Vidulich offers his assistance in making contacts in Asian countries and South Africa for which he is empowered to act as a delegate of the IVS. Assistance accepted. (Motion: Pounds; Second: Cantor; carried)

General IVS Meeting August 4 & 6 Agenda

Bylaws, Finances, Publications, Congress 2001, Elections 2002

Process of revising Bylaws and IVS mission statement are explained by Pounds. Vidulich: Why are bodies such as libraries and compa nies included in IVS membership? Pounds: There is need to have a home for institutions without an existing national section. Vidulich recommends that there should be an IVS officer as liaison with PIVA. Access and efficiency should be improved. Schmidt encourages everyone to directly contact him in this regard. Frederking gives report on IVS finances. Dalton announces probability of new 7% yearly dues policy and cites advantages, i.e., IVS can better oversee the income and be bet ter able to calculate the support sections receive that organize the annual congresses. Vidulich supports policy as delegate ofANZVS. Dalton reports on The Strad's intention to publish a 2001 viola issue possibly with coop eration of, with advantages to, IVS members. A similar but more tentative approach has been made to Strings magazine and another publisher of professional periodicals. Costs for an IVS-produced annual publication are too high, and distribution too expensive, for us to finance at present. We provide IVS news releases to editors of national section journals. Cantor informs about very high costs of pro ducing a journal through Orpheus Publi cations, such as the "Double Bassist," which pays for itself by selling 7,000 copies annually. Maurice asks about publishing an IVS journal on the Web as an alternative.