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IASI Newsletter
No. 15, June 1999
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
Email: nclarke@ausport.gov.au
Fax (+61) 262141681
IASI Secretary now on the Internet contact:
albert.remans@cfwb.be
IASI held its Annual Meeting in Los
Angeles between 19-22 March 1999 which was attended by 40 IASI
members. The meeting was hosted by the Los Angeles Amateur Athletic
Foundation in its elegant headquarters. Wayne Wilson our IASI
colleague and Director of the LAAAF Research and Information
service and his staff did a fantastic job in organising the meeting
schedules, in arranging fantastic breakfasts and lunches and in
putting on a great social program which included a visit to the
Getty Museum.
Participants at the meeting were fortunate also
to have the opportunity to see first hand the operation of the
LAAAF Research and Information Centre which is a world-leader in
the collection and dissemination of Olympic information.
On 31 of May Mr Alain Poncet met with Mr
Fekrou Kidane of the IOC and his assistant Sylvie Espagnac in
Lausanne. And presented the texts of the IASI Sport Information
manual in English and French. Mr Kidane has also agreed to publish
a Spanish version of the manual which is being prepared by Jose
Antonio Vegas so the 3 versions of the manual will be published at
the same time before the end of this year. Each IASI member will
receive free of charge a copy of the manual. A number of
contributors have worked very hard to prepare and to translate the
Manual and Alain Poncet has put an enormous amount of time into the
editing of the Manual. IASI thanks all those people for their
contribution.
As IASI members will be aware the 2001
IASI World Congress on Sport Information will be held in Lausanne
in April 2001. The Congress will be hosted by the International
Olympic Committee and the University of Lausanne. IASI was
fortunate to have Ms Nuria Puig and Francois Schenk of
theUniversity of Lausanne attend the Los Angeles meeting to give an
update on preparations for the Congress and to meet with the
Congress Program Committee which was established during the LA
Meeting.
Preparations are well underway for the Congress
and the first brochure has been mailed.
At the IASI meeting held in Los Angeles in
March 1999 a Program Committee was selected to organise the 11th
IASI World Congress to be held in Lausanne, April 2001.
The Program Committee consists of IASI
representatives as the Chair, and for each of the five themes of
the Congress; Alain Poncet as the Chair of the previous Congress,
and representatives of the IOC, University of Lausanne and
Macolin:
Program Committee
Chair: Bruno Rossi-Mori (CONI)
(Chair)
Sports Information Management: Sally Hall (Sports Council)
New Technology in Sports Information: Jill Haynes (NSIC,
Australia) (Information Technology Theme) assisted by Jean-Michel
Johnson (SIRC)
Geographic Development of Sports Information: Anne-Mette Vibe
(Norges
Idretshogskole, Biblioteket) assisted by Ma Tie (China Sports
Information Institute)
Legal and Economic Aspects of Sports Information: Beatriz Barbera
(Secretaria de Deportes de la Nacion Argentina) assisted by Jose
Antonio Aquesolo (Instituto Andaluz del Deporte)
Sports Information and Olympism: Wayne Wilson (AAFLA) (Olympism
Theme) assisted by Craig Boaden (SOCOG)
Alain Poncet (INSEP)
Nuria Puig (IOC)
Francoise Schenk (University of Lausanne)
Representative of Macolin
The Committee is represented by IASI members
from five regions, making regular face to face meetings very
difficult. Fortunately, since the Paris Congress we have witnessed
rapid changes in information technology, enabling regular
communication with all Committee members via email.
The Committee is currently working on the
format and structure of the sessions, and on identifying potential
speakers for the plenary sessions.
The suggestions made in the questionnaires
following the Paris Congress will be taken into consideration of
the planning of the 2001 Congress. The first formal meeting of the
Program Committee was held on the 1st of June in Lausanne.
Copies of the first announcement brochure are
available from: Nuria Puig
Olympic Museum and Study Centre
Quai d'Ouchy1
1001 Lausanne Switzerland
Fax: 4121 621651
Email: nuria.puig@olympic.org
IASI members are encouraged to distribute these
brochures widely and to provide Nuria with addresses of individuals
and organisations who should receive copies of the Congress
announcements.
SPORTS SITE IN
GREECE
For the past few months the
Under-secretariat for sports in Greece has developed its own web
site on the Internet
www.sport.gov.gr/
where information can be found on sports in
Greece and abroad.
The first online activity with the site began
with the 1st European Conference on Sports, 20th - 23rd of May in
Ancient Olympia, Greece where those following the conference on the
Internet had the possibility of participation by e-mailing their
views.
SPORTS LIBRARY - BARCELONA
The Sports Library (Biblioteca de
l'Esport, Barcelona-Spain) has now had a web page for more than a
year however this site is now available in Spanish and in English.
The site contains a number of links and details the services of the
Library. The information is updated periodically by the addition of
new monthly acquisitions and the addition of links. The Library is
working on incorporating more products. Shortly the site will offer
the ability to consult the periodicals catalogue with details on
holdings.
Maria Luisa Berasategui cultura.gencat.es/esport/biblio
Email kdgemlbd@correu.gencat.es
At the Los Angeles meeting of IASI the
Executive Committee agreed that IASI should not conduct a formal
session at the Congress but should suggest to the organisers that
IASI run an Internet Café at the Congress where delegates
could access the Internet and attend timetabled sessions where IASI
could educate delegates about sport resources on the Internet,
demonstrate the SPORT data base and explain the role of IASI in
sport information.
The organising committee has accepted this
suggestion and Nerida Clarke has begun working with the organising
committee to put the Internet Café in place.
Martin Scarrott, Subject librarian for
Leisure & Tourism, University of North London and Publicity
Officer of the UK sport information group SPRIG has recently
published a book entitled:
Sport, Leisure and Tourism Information Sources:
A guide for researchers
ISBN 0 7506 3864 8 : 256pp : 234 x 156 mm : Hardback : January
1999 :
This book: Explains how to use key information
sources and access tools in clear jargon free language
Detailed coverage of libraries and secondary sources of data
Includes up-to-date information of what is available on the
internet
Sport, Leisure and Tourism Information Sources
is a practical guide to finding information, encouraging readers to
make active use of libraries in their research.
This book provides readers with an
understanding of the major information search tools which are
available. It is a starting point in the search for information
which offers advice and indicates some of the major sources which
are available.
Sport, Leisure and Tourism Information Sources
is aimed primarily at final year undergraduate and postgraduate
students who are preparing a dissertation in the area of sport and
leisure studies who need access to information sources. It is also
ideal for academics for teaching purposes and practitioners in the
sport and leisure industry needing to undertake research.
For more information contact:
Martin Scarrott
Subject Librarian for Leisure & Tourism
The Learning Centre
University of North London
236-250 Holloway Road
London N7 6PP
E-mail m.scarrott@unl.ac.uk
The European Network of Sport Sciences in
Higher Education (ENSSHE), which is closely associated with IASI,
will organise its 5th Biennial Forum: "Sport Policy for the Future
: Education and Employment", from 3 to 6 September 1999 in
Jyvaskyla Finland, involving European Universities, Institutes of
Sport and Sport Federations
At this forum a specific workshop will be set
up to gather together people from IASI and ENSSHE networks. The
goal of this workshop is to present and debate a new communication
plan aimed at promoting a wider diffusion of the information within
ENSSHE and an improvement of its production and treatment.
The title of the workshop will be "Improving
the quality and the diffusion of ENSSHE information: a
communication plan in the framework of the IASI-ENSSHE
partnership".
The workshop will be lead by Alain Poncet, IASI
Vice-president for Europe. Alberto Madella and Anitta Palvimaki
will collaborate as technical experts.
It will illustrate the role and the interest of
IASI in the project and the past results of the IASI-ENSSHE
cooperation will be outlined. In particular, the results of the
inquiry on the Information Technologies available in the
organizations belonging to ENSSHE, done by Alberto Madella at the
end of 1998, will be presented.
One of the main goals of this workshop is to
define the tasks of the new IASI-ENSSHE pilot group. In the medium
term, this pilot group will co-operate towards the building of a
real network of sport information managers in all the organizations
of the Network.
At this moment, about ten people because of
their common membership of our two networks, have been called upon
to take part in this think tank. Everybody concerned with this
project is warmly invited to come to the Forum.
Contact for the workshop:
Alain PONCET
Tel: 33 1 41 74 41 19
Fax : 33 1 48 08 19 60
E-mail: alain.poncet@wanadoo.fr
Contact for the 5th ENSSHE Forum :
Ms. Pirjo-Leena PITKÄNEN
Tel: +358 14 603 662
Fax : +358 14 603 727
E-mail: pitkanen@cone.jyu.fi
As members of IASI will know IASI and the
Canadian Sport Information Resource Centre have had a long and
fruitful relationship since 1975 when SIRC's SPORT data base was
adopted as the international English language data base for sport
by UNESCO. Recently Gilles Chiasson stood down as the President of
SIRC and his position has been taken by Debra Gassewitz. In order
to get to know Debra and to hear her views on the future of the
SIRC/IASI relationship Nerida Clarke (IASI President), Albert
Remans (IASI Secretary) and Alain Poncet (IASI European Vice
President) travelled to Ottawa prior to the Los Angeles IASI Annual
Meeting to meet with Debra and SIRC staff.
At the conclusion of this meeting Debra wrote
to IASI (18 March 1999) stating that:
"SIRC remains committed to IASI and the development of the
International Database of Sport Information. In the upcoming year
SIRC looks forward to increased communication with indexing
partners and IASI members. The goal, to promote and expand the
international data base to the international community remains and
will continue to be the focus for SIRC. We look forward to the
database and the relationship between SIRC and IASI as we move into
the next millenium".
The IASI Executive Committee had a number of
discussions regarding the SIRC/IASI relationship and was pleased to
have Jean-Michel Johnson of SIRC present at the Los Angeles meeting
to update members of current initiatives within SIRC in regard to
the data base and sport information management in general.
The Executive Committee recognising that the
SIRC/IASI Agreement is now out of date decided to establish an ad
hoc Working Group to revise the IASI/SIRC Agreement. Members of the
ad hoc Working Group will be:
Jean Michel Johnson (SIRC), Ms Anne-Mette Vibe
(Norway), Ms Jill Haynes (Australia), Mr Jose Antonio Aquesolo
Vegas (Spain), Mr Wayne Wilson (AAFLA USA) Ms Nerida Clarke (IASI
President). In the future Jean-Michel Johnson will become the
liaison person between SIRC and IASI. Jean-Michel is already
working hard on the update of the IASI website which is hosted by
SIRC.
At the IASI Executive Committee it was
unanimously agreed that Gilles Chiasson should be awarded the
status of IASI Honorary Member. As the past President of IASI
Gilles made an outstanding contribution to IASI and to the global
management of sport information. Particularly through his efforts
to establish and develop the SPORT database.
In 1998 the IASI Executive Committee
agreed to hold the 2000 Annual Meeting in Santiago Chile under the
organisation of the Chile Olympic Committee. However the 1999
meeting was informed that the National Olympic Committee of Chile
due to unforseen circumstances could not host the meeting but had
arranged to have the meeting organised and hosted by the University
of Playa Ancha and the Metropolitan University of Sciences of
Education in Valparaiso Chile. An excellent proposal was tabled
from the University of Playa Ancha. This proposal was supported by
Mr Jose Antonio Aquesolo and Beatriz Barbera who informed the
meeting that that this University is a member of SportCom and has
an excellent capability to hold the meeting.
The meeting is currently scheduled for 10-16
April 2000 however these dates are to be confirmed.
The Asian Sport Information Association
(Preparatory Committee) has been formed and has produced its first
Bulletin . The Bulletin is to be published twice a year by the Hong
Kong Sports Development Board which serves as the Secretariat for
A.S.I.A. The Bulletin is to be distributed to Olympic Committees,
Asian IASI members, key officials, universities and teaching
institutions. The IASI Executive Committee has agreed to provide
$US 500 towards the production and distribution of the
Bulletin.
An electronic copy of the Bulletin will be
distributed to the IASI Listserv and it will be accessible from the
IASI Internet site.
More and more IASI members are gaining
access to the Internet and are finding the IASI Listserv as an
excellent means of sharing sport information. Ayala Maharik from
the Wingate Institute who administers the listserv reports that the
list now has 144 members from 37 countries.
If you are a list member and wish to write a
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