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IASI Newsletter
No. 10, December 1997
Table of Contents
IASI is a non-profit making organisation
whose aim is to stimulate, support and develop activities in the
field of international documentation and information for physical
education and sport. It brings together a world-wide network of
scientists, documentalists, librarians, information experts and
managers of sports information and documentation
centres.
In order to reflect worldwide developments in
sport information the editor of the newsletter welcomes
contributions from all countries in all languages.
- For contributions to the IASI Newsletter
contact:
- Nerida Clarke
- Director
- Information Services Australian Sports
Commission
- PO Box 176
- Belconnen ACT 2616 Australia
- E-mail: nclarke@ausport.gov.au
- Fax: (+61) 2 62141681
IASI is pleased to announce that the
office of the Secretary is now online. Members are encouraged to
communicate with the Secretary Mr Albert Remans by
email.
The address is: albert.remans@cfwb.be
The attractive facilities of the Amateur
Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles and marvelous Southern
California weather provided a splendid atmosphere for the assembled
conference participants at the 6th Conference of NASLIN. The
conference talks focused on technological innovations, services on
the Internet and sport-related research. The program also included
a tour of the Paul Ziffren Sports Resource Center (AAFLA library)
and the Sports Department of the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL).
The LAPL has significant sport holdings from the late 19th century
to date. The LAPL library online catalogue can be accessed on the
internet at: http://www.lapl.org
Plans are underway in the next few months to
write abrief synopsis of the papers and presentations of the 6th
NASLIN conference. This synopsis will be sent to participants and
posted on the IASI listserv.
NASLIN STEERING COMMITTEE 1997-1999
Two founding members of NASLIN, Wayne
Wilson, AAFLA and Cindy Slater, USOC Library resigned from the
NASLIN Steering Committee. They will be missed by all for they
contributed thoughtful leadership and fellowship over the past 8
years.
The Steering Committee re-elected Gretchen
Ghent as Chair and elected three new Steering Committee members
(indicated by *). The following persons constitute the 1997-1999
Steering Committee:
Steve Gietschier, The Sporting News NASLIN
Treasurer
Dave Kelly, Library of Congress Jan Todd, University of Texas
James Gates, National Baseball Hall of Fame Cindy Romaine, Nike
Inc. *Linda Wheeler, Sport Information Resource Centre *Henriette
Heiny, Microform Publications, Univ. of Oregon *Shirley Ito,
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles
Other decisions of the Steering Committee
included the publication strategy for NASLINE, the newsletter. This
newsletter will be issued in electronic format only and archived at
the Sport Information Resource Centre web site. The newsletter will
be published two times a year in February and September.
AMATEUR ATHLETIC FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES,
PAUL ZIFFREN SPORTS RESOURCE CENTER
During the tour of AAFLA's library, Wayne
Wilson, VP Research, announced that plans are underway for AAFLA's
online catalogue to be made available via the Internet. Mr. Wilson
expects that testing should be complete by December.
Look for further information and the web
address on the IASI listserv.
Another project of considerable interest
emanating from the AAFLA library is full text access to the
Official Reports of the 1932 and 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
The plan is to scan these Official Reports and make them available
in full text as they appeared in print. Another exciting aspect is
that the contents will be searchable by key word. AAFLA is
utilizing the services of Glyphica in Mountain View, California.
This company employs two software packages called Acrobat and
Adobe's Capture to produce a visually accurate product with
searchable text. This project should be completed in the next few
months and mounted on AAFLA's web site: http://www.aafla.com.
- Glyphica's address is:
- 2234 Old Middlefield Way, Suite E
- Mountain View, California
- 94043 USA
- Tel: 650-428-1800
- FAX: 650-428-1820
- Website: http://www.glyphica.com
- E-mail:info@glyphica.com
This company recently produced a CD-ROM called
International Travel and Tourism (T&T) which included the US
Bureau of Transportation Statistics, UN, World Tourism Organisation
and other statistics. This CD contains 10,000 statistical tables,
is multilingual and fully searchable).
- For more information on NASLIN contact:
- Gretchen Ghent, Librarian Emeritus
- (Chair, North American Sport Library Network
and VP, North America, for International Association for Sports
Information)
- University of Calgary Library, MLT116F
- 2500 University Dr. NW
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- T2N 1N4
- Tel: 403-220-6097
- FAX: 403-282-6837
- E-Mail: gghent@acs.ucalgary.ca
Congress Proceedings
The Proceedings of the IASI Congress have
proved to be a valuable resource for the sport information
community and there are still copies available for purchase. If you
wish to purchase copies of the Proceedings of the very successful
10th IASI Scientific Congress send 350 French Francs (prepayment
required) to:
- Monsieur l'agent comptable de l'INSEP
- INSEP Service de Documentation
- 11, avenue du Tremblay
- 75012 Paris, France
- Tel: 33 01 41 74 07
- Fax: 33 01 48 08 19 60
Payment can be made by:
Bank Cheque
or By Postal Order CCPno.9 097 65 F Paris
or By Bank Transfer to Tresor Public Bank Code 30081 Office Code
75000
Account Number 00003005985 Cle RIB 35
Congress Evaluation
Recently the IASI Secretary asked those who
attended the IASI Congress in Paris in June to submit an evaluation
form. Members are encouraged to complete this form as it will help
the organisers of future IASI Congresses to make them even more
successful than our last one.
Mr Jose Antonio Aquesolo IASI member and
Director of the SPORTCOM network for sport information in Latin
America reports that there was great success with SPORTCOM 1997
recently held in Columbia.
The following key developments from SPORTCOM
should be noted:
- NEW LATIN-AMERICAN MEMBERS HAVE JOINED
SPORTCOM AND CONTRIBUTED THEIR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORDS TO THE
ATLANTIS DATA BASE
- THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ANTIOQUIA (COLOMBIA) HOSTED THE ACTIVITIES OF
1997 SPORTCOM
- FOR THE FIRST TIME, SPORTCOM ORGANIZED TWO
COURSES, THE TRADITIONAL ONE ON SPORT DOCUMENTATION FOR THE CENTRES
BELONGING TO THE LATIN-AMERICAN NETWORK, AND ANOTHER ONE ON SPORTS
DIRECTION AND MANAGEMENT
As it has been doing since 1993, when it set up
the Latin-American Network for Sport Documentation, the Andalusian
Institute of Sport, at the time called Unisport, announced the 3rd
LATIN-AMERICAN COURSE ON SPORT DOCUMENTATION, this time focusing on
the subject "Direction and Management Techniques for Sport
Documentation Centres". This 45 hour course was held in Colombia,
thanks to the kind offer of the Institute of Physical Education and
Sports of the University of Antioquia, one of the most renowned and
active centres in the field of Sport Documentation within
Latin-America. Over 100 participants attended the course.
This 3rd Course was under the direction of
José Aquesolo, the director of the Network, and it was
addressed to all documentalists and librarians of the centres
belonging to SPORTCOM, up to a maximum of 33 participants. Among
the invited experts was Pilar Iruretagoyena, from the University
Carlos III of Madrid, Patricia Arjona, manager of the IAD's
computer area, Carmen Moreno, librarian of the IAD and Jesús
Roca, director of the IAD's area of Certifications and Training and
several other management and direction experts.
The course contents included documentary
analysis and retrieval, computer science applied to documentary
management, information sources and resources on the Internet,
management and direction systems, and marketing and communication
of sport documentation centres.
Several months before, the Director of the
Institute, Rodrigo Arboleda, had visited the IAD's headquarters in
Málaga and reached a cooperation agreement which might
stretch out well beyond the field of sport documentation. One of
the outcomes of those conversations was the decision of the IAD's
Director, Juan de la Cruz Vázquez, to add to the SPORTCOM
program a new activity, addressed to sport leaders and technical
staff, club managers, politicians responsible for sport in
Latin-America, based on the long-lasting tradition of the IAD,
since 1984, in the field of training. Thus, the 1st LATIN-AMERICAN
COURSE ON SPORTS DIRECTION was held with its main theme "Sport
organization, leadership, sponsorship and marketing".
SIRC GIVES FREE REFERENCE TOOLS TO TEACHERS
The Canadian Sport Information Resource Centre
(SIRC) recognizes that teachers have limited preparation time to
develop new and varied teaching curriculums. To assist teachers,
SIRC is posting over 200 free titles to documents describing
physical education programs on its Website at http://www.sportquest.com
Governments, teachers and parents alike share
the common goal to provide high quality education to children.
Child physical and mental development are critical at both the
elementary and secondary school levels. Teaching Physical Education
is more than supervising physical activity. Teachers need to create
various strategies to develop motor skills, enhance attitudes of
self confidence, team building and cooperation, promote safety and
injury prevention and contribute to the life skills required to
succeed in today's fast paced environment. "If we keep the goal of
high quality education in mind, our children will see the benefits"
said Gilles Chiasson, President of SIRC.
SPORTDiscus is a comprehensive bibliographic
database of all sport and fitness related material. To enable
teachers to spend more time teaching, the focus must be to provide
the necessary resources to ensure high quality education. Within
the database, users will find over 400,000 title references to
sport and fitness covering topics such as physical education
curriculums, sport safety, academic achievement and physical
education. SIRC is committed to promoting proper physical
development and encouraging participation in sports and/or fitness
activities. Over 200 references to physical education programs in
the elementary and secondary school can be viewed by teachers,
parents and any other interested parties at http://www.sportquest.com
Topics range from teaching methods to
curriculum development. Sample titles include: Fair play in the
gymnasium: improving social skills among elementary school
students. Solomon, G.B. JOPERD The journal of physical education,
recreation & dance (Reston, Va.) 68(5), May/June 1997,
22-25.
Physical activity ideas for action: secondary
level. Allen, L. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics Publishers, c1997.
Of particular interest, p. 57-75, chapter on Physical Education in
the 21st Century.
Differences between experienced and
inexperienced physical education teachers' augmented feedback and
interactive teaching decisions. Tan, S.K.S. Journal of teaching in
physical education (Champaign, Ill.) 15(2), Jan 1996, 151-170.
Teachers will benefit from the free of charge
listings on SPORTQuest by having easy access to resources that will
help them develop varied and strategic programs for physical
education. Photocopies of documents listed on SPORTQuest are
available from SIRC.
Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC), the
world leader in identifying and disseminating sport information, is
a non-profit organization which serves the sporting, academic,
medical and corporate community. Products and services available
from SIRC include SPORTQuest (the award winning Web site for sport
information), SPORTDiscus and SPORTExpress (a document delivery
service). SPORTDiscus is distributed in Canada by MicroMedia.
For more information please contact:
Debra Gassewitz
VP Marketing SIRC
+1-613-748-5658
E-mail: debrag@sirc.ca
SPORTQUEST RECOGNIZED AS THE BEST SPORT
INFORMATION WEB SITE.
Three new international awards have been
won by the Canadian Sport Information Resource Centre's (SIRC)
SPORTQuest Internet site. http://www.sportquest.com)
These awards are Lycos Top 5%, Snap Online Best
of the Web and SearchPoint "cool site" award.
Created by the Sport Information Resource
Centre (SIRC), SPORTQuest is a directory of sport sites and offers
a virtual library of sport and fitness information.
SPORTQuest is the web site created by SIRC to
service coaches, athletes, teachers, students, parents and general
fitness enthusiasts. This free directory of sport sites offers an
array of resources for training, sport conferences, sports science
and medicine, amateur and professional sports, statistics and
results, news... the list is endless. While the site offers
pointers to popular sports like football, hockey and figure
skating, it proves especially worthwhile if your favorite athletic
endeavor is beyond the main stream. "Fitness and sport are a part
of everyone's life and our expert indexers have tried to provide
the most comprehensive sport resource available on the Web today"
said Gilles Chiasson, President SIRC.
By visiting SPORTQuest, the user can find the
answer to virtually any question either from on-site information
provided by SIRC or through more than 14,000 site links to other
sport and fitness sites. Visitors to SPORTQuest can easily search
for information by using the predefined pop-up category index,
choosing from one of 88 different sports listed or inputting any
sport topic in the search menu. Anything from tennis elbow to
visualization or even Ultimate Frisbee, will produce results.
SPORTQuest is the virtual library of sport and
fitness information. To quote the editors from the Lycos Top 5%
award "we defy you to come up with a sports topic not addressed
here."
Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC), the
world leader in identifying and disseminating sport information, is
a non-profit organization which serves the sporting, academic,
medical and corporate community. Products and services available
from SIRC include SPORTQuest, SPORTDiscus (a comprehensive
bibliographic database of all sport related material) and
SPORTExpress (a document delivery service).
For more information please contact:
Debra Gassewitz
VP Marketing SIRC
+1-613-748-5658
E-mail: debrag@sirc.ca
ENGLISH SPORTS COUNCIL WEB SITE
Sally Hall has advised that the English
Sports Council now has a web site.The address is http://www.sportengland.org.
At the moment the site contains some
information about the Council and its programmes, including the
Lottery Sports Fund. New information will be added on a regular
basis, including updating the Lottery Sports Fund statistics
monthly. There are also plans to provide details on publications
available from the ESC. If you have any comments or questions
please email the feedback form on the site.
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS SITE
International Congress "WHICH PHYSICAL
EDUCATION FOR WHICH SCHOOL?"
20-24 May 1998 Neuchatel Switzerland
Organized by the Swiss Physical Education Association
Information about this congress can be found
http://www.unine.ch/asep/welcome.html
PANSTADIA ONLINE
Panstadia the international quarterly
journal for the sports facility industry now has a WWW address.
Through this it is possible to view selected articles, to email for
articles and to provide feedback.
The address is: http://www.piqr.com
Newspaper Clipping activities of the
Sport (SA) Information Centre in Pretoria, South Africa.
By: Laurie Tempelhoff
Some ten years ago I undertook a study tour to
Sport Information Centres in Europe with the view to acquire as
much information as possible in order to start a similar
institution in South Africa. When I visited the Zentralbibliothek
der Sportwissenschaften (Deutsche Sporthochschule) in Cologne in
Germany, I was fascinated by the vast collection of newspaper
clippings on sport (70,000) arranged in file drawers which occupied
the whole length of a wall. On opening the drawers, I discovered
that the material in each drawer was arranged according to a
specific sport type, e.g. athletics, football, etc. I immediately
sensed the great research value of these clippings which normally
contain news information of the day - information which one does
not find in monographic or journal articles. When submitting my
recommendations for the establishment of a sports information
centre for South Africa, I listed high on my priority list the
running of a newspaper clipping service within the centre, and so
such a service was born in 1986 and operates to this day. To date
the Centre has some 17 000 clippings which are housed in filing
cabinets in the Centre's archive section.
What then is the value of a newspaper clipping
service and who are the main users?
It has been said that the newspaper as a mirror
of public feeling and society at large has no equal and therefore,
is an indispensable source not only for information needs but also
for research purposes. Additionally the newspaper could be
considered the "minute book" of daily happenings and events.
Newspaper clippings therefore, are vital in serving the needs of
not only sport researchers in general but also sports
administrators of national sports bodies who are expected to reach
to comment and statements expressed in newspaper columns. At the
present time the Sports (SA) Information Centre renders a specific
soccer clipping service to the S.A. Soccer Association. Other users
are students of tertiary sports study institutions who regularly
utilize the service for assignments on the Olympic Games, issues on
sports development, results of major sports competitions, etc.
How to operate your own newspaper clipping
service.
In order to get a sound cross section of all
the sporting happenings in a particular country, it is to be
suggested that a centre subscribes to four or five of the country;s
major newspapers.
A sound management procedure would be to assign
a staff member to be responsible for the organisation and control
of this task.
The duties would encompass to select, cut out,
paste, record and then classify the clippings. In recording
provision must be made for the following details:
number
topic (e.g. Olympic Games, cricket, hockey)
source (e.g. The Eastern Province Herald)
date (e.g. Friday, 7th September, 1992)
newspaper page (e.g. p9.)
The details should then be stored and can be
electronically retrieved by allocating specific key words
(descriptors) to the document. Below is an example of an article
selected for pasting and recording on a newspaper clipping
sheet.
EXAMPLE OF CLIPPING SERVICE:
S.A. SPORTS INFORMATION CENTRE
Topic: Soccer
Number:
Source: E.P. Herald
Date: Fri., 19/09/1997
Page: 24
Title: Barker' package deal
JOHANNESBURG - Clive Barker accepted the job of part-time coach
for South Africa's campaign for next year's World Cup in France
following a meeting with the SA Football Association on Wednesday
night.
"I will be going to France as a part-time
coach and am happy that the matter of my financial package was
settled amicably," Barker said.
Chief executive Danny Jordaan said Safa were
pleased with the outcome of the meeting and that the package they
offered Barker was incentive-based. Barker agreed to the 12-month
contract, beginning on October, 1 worth R600 000 at a monthly
salary of R50 000. He is currently earning R40 000 a month.
KEY WORDS:
1. Barker
2. Soccer
3. Salary
4. Jordaan
* Other IASI Members may wish to submit
articles on how they manage press clippings.
THE ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE IASI EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE 1997-2001 ARE:
- IASI President
- Mrs Nerida Clarke, Australia
- IASI VICE PRESIDENT AFRICA
- Mr Laurie Tempelhoff, South Africa
- IASI VICE PRESIDENT OCEANIA
- Jill Haynes, Australia
- IASI VICE PRESIDENT ASIA
- Zhao Yaping, China
- IASI VICE PRESIDENT NORTH AMERICA
- Mrs Gretchen Ghent, Canada
- IASI VICE PRESIDENT EUROPE
- Mr Alain Poncet, France
- IASI VICE PRESIDENT LATIN AMERICA
- Mrs Esperanza Bobes Ruiz, Cuba
- MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
- Mr Ma Tie China
- Mr Albert Remans, Belgium (Also Secretary
Treasurer of IASI)
- Mr Andrei Teodorescu Romania
- Mrs Ayala Maharik Israel
- Mr Bruno Rossi-Mori Italy
- Mrs Anita Palvimaki Finland
- Mr Maurizio Bruni Italy
- Mrs Anne-Mette Vibe Norway
- Mrs Beatriz Maria Barbera Argentina
- Mr Gilles Chiasson Canada
- Mr Jose Antonio Aquesolo Vegas Spain
- Mrs Eugenia Salazar Roderiguez Chile
- Mrs Erika Schwarz Spain
- Mrs Sally Hall United Kingdom
- Mr Benoit de Chassey Switzerland
- Mr Al Ismail Abdel Saudi Arabia
- Mr Olavo Malveiro Portugal
- Ms Cindy Slater USA
Gilles Chiasson President of the SIRC
(Sport Information Resource Centre and IASI Executive Committee
Member has written a paper in the journal Quest Vol 49 (3) August
1997 p322-326. The paper should be of interest to IASI members in
that it describes the SPORTDiscus data base and explores the
potential for the improvement in dissemination of research data
through such mechanisms as full-text data bases and Internet
access.
This issue of Quest is devoted to Technology
and Kinesiology and has a number of other articles which may be of
interest to members. These articles will all be indexed in
SPORTDiscus.
Robin White IASI member from the New
Zealand Hillary Commission has provided the following update on
sport information from New Zealand.
TECHNOLOGY Website
Our web site won a site of the year award earlier this month.
Check it out on http://www.hillarysport.org.nz
It includes:
- the latest data on sports participation in New
Zealand
- information about "Green Prescriptions" - New
Zealand's new physical activity prescription programme (designed to
improve the health of New Zealanders by increasing regular physical
activity and raising awareness of the benefits of exercise)
- school sports projects for kids
- resources for sports club volunteers
LNet
Local authorities commit significant rate payer funds to providing
sport and active leisure facilities. To make it easier to provide
information to local authority leisure managers we have set up a
private email discussion group. It is lively.
PUBLICATIONS
Sport Facts is a new series of fact sheets
which give detailed information about the latest sports
participation survey in NZ.
Moving Through Sport: From Junior to Adult is
New Zealand's junior sport policy. The document sets out the
principles that the policy is based on and provides guidelines for
implementing them.
Moving a NationThe Hillary Commission's new
strategic plan is hot off the press. Sets out current sports issues
and identifies four key areas for development.
These publications are available by emailing info@hillarysport.org.nz
CAMPAIGNS
We are currently coordinating a coach
recruitment campaign, "Coaches Count". There is an 0800 number,
referrals to regional or national sports associations, and
resources for new or practising coaches. KiwiWalks, a venture to
promote local authority walkways, paths, tracks and is about to be
launched. Part of our More People, More Active, MoreOften
campaign.
- For more information on these programs
contact;
- Robin White
- Hillary Commission for Sport Fitness &
Leisure
- PO Box 2251 Wellington New Zealand
- Fax +64044710813
The Secretary of IASI has advised that
the dates for the 1998 IASI Meeting will be from 31 March to 5
April 1998 at the Hong Kong Sports Institute as proposed at the
1997 IASI meeting in Paris.
The timetable for the meeting is:
31 March 1998
Arrival of participants
Asian Group Meeting
1 April 1998
Information Seminar and/or Workshops
Presidential Board Meeting
2 April 1998
Executive Committee
IASI Open Forum
3 April 1998
IASI Open Forum
City Tour
4 April 1998
Executive Committee
Presidential Board
Preparatory Meeting IASI Congress 2001
5 April 1998
Departures
IASI is looking forward to meeting in Asia
again and making contact with new and prospective members. More
detail will be provided to members in the near future through the
Secretary.
Mr Mosese Latu has been appointed as the
Library Assistant to assist Mr Albert Miller in the establishment
of the Oceania Sport Information Centre in Fiji. Already Mr Miller
and Mr Latu are providing services to the Region and the number of
requests for information they are receiving is increasing each
week.
ADVERTISING RATES
Advertisements can be placed in the IASI
Newsletter at a cost of:
US$50.00 for a full A4 page or
US$25.00 for half an A4 page.
Contact the Editor of the Newsletter if you
wish to place an advertisement.
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