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IBNS Announcements
Call for Nominations
The next twelve months constitute an election year in the IBNS. In
the next six months, leading to 31 December 2009, nominations for
all positions on the Board of the IBNS will be sought. Early in 2010
election ballots will be distributed, returned and counted. The results
of the election will be announced in June 2010.
Past experience indicates many members feel nominating
themselves for a position on the Board requires experience which
only comes from long-term membership, or from being well known
within the paper money fraternity. This is not the case. Enthusiasm
to assist and a desire to improve the IBNS are the only real requisites;
although members must have been a member in good standing for
an unbroken period of two years as of 1 January of the election year,
continuous through to the date of election.
Please don’t be shy of putting your own name forward, or the name
of someone whom you think would be a good servant of the Society; and
please consider the future of the IBNS and the contribution you might
make. If you have any questions, about the role of a director, please check
the bylaws or contact a member of the Nominations Committee.
While we have many months to work on the process, it is time for
members to think about nominations for the election. If you would
like to work for the IBNS as a Director, please contact one of the
committee members:
Patrick Smeekens
Postlaantje 3
3851 NM
Ermelo
The Netherlands
p.smeekens@chello.nl
Peter Eccles
PO Box 2937
Auckland 1140
New Zealand
eccles.coins@xtra.co.nz
Srikanth Vasudevan
10301 Lake Ave
Suite 501
Cleveland, OH 44102
United Stated of America
sriki07@gmail.com
IBNS Directory in PDF Format
At the IBNS Board meeting in Valkenburg it was decided to allow
the preparation of the IBNS Directory as a PDF document. There
are two reasons why this decision was made. First, we are living in
the electronic age and many people are familiar with working with
PDF documents, which are easy to search and much more portable
than a printed document (as long as you have a computer). Second,
we publish the printed IBNS Directory every two years and by
producing a PDF version, we are able to update it more frequently
and the details of the membership will be more current.
The PDF version will be based on the printed version of the IBNS
Directory, with all current IBNS documents included. Where these
documents have been updated, such as amendments to the bylaws,
these amendments will be included. All advertising that appeared in
the last printed Directory will appear in the PDF version.
The sections that contain the alphabetical and regional listings
of members will also remain. However, the Board expressed
concern over the copying and distribution of a PDF document
and, cognisant of members’ concerns at their details being
distributed over the Internet, it was decided that members must
‘opt in’ to the PDF version as well as the printed version.
Members are therefore requested to contact a Membership
Secretary and advise them which details they would like to
include in their listing in the PDF version of the Directory. If no
action is taken by a member, only their name and membership
number will appear in the Alphabetical and Regional Listing. The
options available to members are:
1. Allow postal address and details to be published in the PDF
Directory. Saying yes to this option will display your postal
address, web site and collecting interests in the Directory
under the Alphabetical Listing.
2. Allow email address to be published in the PDF Directory.
Saying yes to this option will display your email address
and collecting interests in the Directory under the
Alphabetical Listing.
These two options replicate choices already available for the
printed version of the IBNS Directory. In membership renewal
letters these four options, two for the printed Directory and two
for the PDF directory, will be indicated to members.
It has not been decided when the first PDF version of the
Directory will be available. When it is ready, it will be made
available from the IBNS web site, in the member’s only area
(when we have our new web site available). Members should note
we are not abandoning the printed version of the IBNS Directory,
which will be published every two years.
If you have questions on this matter, please contact a
Membership Secretary.
Bricks on the Wall!
Any society needs funds to provide for their members and we
are no different. Whilst the IBNS is currently in good financial
shape we want to make sure we continue in that vein. We also
want to be able to have the funds necessary for a truly great 50th
anniversary celebration in 2011.
With that in mind, Pam West and Tim Welo are preparing a
wall of donation bricks to be published in a forthcoming edition
of the IBNS Journal and hopefully we’ll have enough bricks for a
full two-page center spread.
Pam and Tim are starting off by each making a donation for the
first two bricks. All the bricks are for sale at any price you would like
to decide upon. Donations preferred in US Dollars, pounds sterling
and Australian dollars; but we are open to almost any donation.
The funds raised from the wall of bricks will go toward
funding our 50th anniversary activities. If you would like to make
a donation please contact Tim Welo at twelo@optonline.net
(mailing address under ‘Society Officers’).
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