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IASI Newsletter
No. 16, September 1999
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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 worldwide 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
Website: www.iasi.org
IASI is pleased to advise that for the
first time the IASI annual meeting will be held in South America.
The meeting will be hosted by the Faculty of Physical Education of
the University of Playa Ancha in Valparaiso/Vina del Mare,
Chile.
The dates for the meeting are Tuesday 11th
April to Saturday 15th April 2000.
It is extremely exciting for IASI to be holding
its first meeting of the new century in a new continent and we are
extremely grateful to Antonio Maurer Furst, Dean of the Faculty of
Physical Education at the University for his sponsorship of the
meeting.
The IASI website now has its own domain
name www.iasi.org and through the work of Jean-Michel Johnson at
SIRC changes are being made to the site and links to other sites
are being made.
Recently the IASI web site has become a truly
international site with a link to the IASI web site in the French
language, which has been prepared by Alain Poncet of INSEP.
This site has a home location at:
www.insep.jeunesse-sports.fr/documentation/iasi/index.html
Links will be made from the IASI site to the
Spanish and Italian versions of the IASI web site which have been
created by IASI members.
In other developments a link from IASI to the
European Network of Sport Sciences in Higher Education (ENSSHE)
site has been made. This sort of link will hopefully be useful in
promoting understanding, cooperation and collaboration between the
two organisations.
As IASI members will be aware the 2001
IASI World Congress on Sport Information will be held in Lausanne
from 25-27 April 2001 with the theme Sports Information in the
Third Millenium.
The International Olympic Committee and the
University of Lausanne will host the Congress.
The second announcement for the Congress is now
being prepared and will be distributed in the next few weeks. This
announcement will include the Call for Papers form and the
preliminary Registration Form.
IASI is also pleased to announce that the IOC
Olympic Studies Centre will be organising a Workshop on Olympic
Documentation and Archives to be held on 24th April just before the
congress. Details of this will be announced in due course.
The Program Committee for the IASI Congress
consists of IASI representatives as the Chair (Mr Bruno
Rossi-Mori), 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:
Congress Themes:
- Sports Information Management
- New Technology in Sports Information
- Geographic Development of Sports
Information
- Legal and Economic Aspects of Sports
Information
- Sports Information and Olympism
Copies of the Congress announcement brochure
are available from:
Nuria Puig
Olympic Museum and Study Centre Quai d"Ouchy1 1001 Lausanne
Switzerland
Fax 4121 6216512
Email: nuria.puig@olympic.org
IASI members are encouraged to distribute these
brochures widely and to provide Nuria with addresses of individuals
and organisations that should receive copies of the Congress
announcements.
The IASI business meetings will be held from
22-24th April prior to the Congress.
From the 15 to September 1999, the 2nd
International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport was held in
Vienna (Austria) and was attended by 124 participants from 19
countries including 15 from Europe.
Alain Poncet, IASI Vice-President for Europe,
represented IASI and gave a detailed presentation on IASI and its
activities.
Of all of the presentations a quarter was
devoted to the processing of sport information and related
technology. This clearly shows the emergence of the needs in the
sport scientific community in relation to sport information.
The IASI presentation concluded the
Symposium, and this was an opportune time for IASI to extend an
invitation to the symposium participants to become involved in IASI
activities and in particular to invite attendance at the next IASI
Congress in Lausanne in 2001.
As IASI members will be aware a
pre-Olympic Scientific Congress takes place in the week prior to
each Olympic Games usually in a city outside the Olympic city. This
Congress is organised by ICSSPE with patronage of the
IOC.
In 2000 the pre-Olympic Scientific Congress
will be held in Brisbane Australia from 7-13 September 2000. IASI
as a member of ICSSPE has been invited to take part in the Congress
Program as we have done in the past however at the 1999 IASI
meeting it was agreed that in 2000 IASI should have a different
form of involvement in the Congress to gain more exposure. It was
suggested that rather than presenting a single paper to a limited
audience that IASI should consider running an Internet café
at the Congress. The café would consist of a number of PCs
linked to the Internet and be in an open space with appropriate
IASI signage.
By hosting the café IASI would:
- Gain exposure to all delegates attending the
Congress
- Have the opportunity to show general sport
information resources on the Internet
- Have an opportunity to conduct timetabled
sessions to demonstrate and explain the SPORT data base
- Provide a communication service for delegates
allowing them to read their email during the Congress.
The Congress Organising Committee accepted the
suggestion of the Internet café and planning has started for
the café. As a first step the IASI President has negotiated
with a company Choice Connections Brisbane who have agreed to
supply 12 Apple computers for the Internet café for the
duration of the Congress at no charge. IASI will now look for a
telecommunications company who will sponsor the Internet
connections for the Internet café during the Congress.
It is with great sadness that we advise
IASI members of the tragic death of Mosese Latu in a recent
aircraft crash in Fiji.
Moses Latu was working with Albert Miller in
the development of the Oceania Sport Information Centre at the
University of the South Pacific and was in fact on his way to
Australia to undertake training in sport information services when
the accident occurred.
Whilst Mosese was not personally known to IASI
members the work of the Oceania Centre was becoming well known
interna
tionally as a model sport information
service.
IASI has passed condolences to the family and
work colleagues of Mosese. Mosese will be sadly missed.
As announced in the last IASI Newsletter
the European Network of Sport Sciences in Higher Education (ENSSHE)
organized its 5th Biennial Forum, from 3 to 6 September in
Jyvaskyla Finland.
At this Forum a specific workshop was set up to
gather together people from IASI and ENSSHE networks this was a
great success with a gathering of 30 people. The workshop was
co-led by Alain Poncet and Alberto Madella, with the collaboration
of Anitta Palvimaki as a technical expert.
The goal of the ENSSHE-IASI workshop was to
make some proposals for improving the effectiveness of the
communication resources of the network, since information and
communication are the heart of the network and the real added value
for the members.
On this respect, during the discussion some
technical and strategic key issues were identified manly concerning
the development of the ENSSHE web communication.
A small panel of consultants, from ENSSHE and
IASI, has been set up, thus maintaining the ongoing co-operation
between IASI-ENSSHE.
The tasks of this new pilot group are to:
- Provide systematic feedback and strategic
advice on the ENSSHE web site
- Suggest examples of best practice
- Promote and market the ENSSHE web site in their organization
- Analyse the needs of information of their internal clients
(teaching staff, students, administrators) and connect them to the
operation of the web site
- Cooperate in managing and improving the links between the ENSSHE
and individiual organizations' web sites...
This pilot group will interact mainly
electronically and meet once a year to evaluate the steps and
recommend future initiatives and criteria for the web site
assessment. A final suggestion can be made to the co-ordinating
group to set up rapidly this pilot group, with a specific meeting
and initiate immediately the operation of the new web strategy.
In the future the links between IASI and ENSSHE
will be enhanced because it is in the common interest of both
organizations. On the one hand, ENSSHE needs IASI expertise to
create and develop its information tools. On the other hand, IASI
centres need ENSSHE because this group represents the users of
sport information.
Report by Alain Poncet (IASI Vice President
Europe)
Lesley Gunter
SPRIG Chair
SPRIG, the UK sports information network has
recently changed its remit, so we thought you'd be interested to
know more about what we do:
What is SPRIG? SPRIG is an organisation, which
promotes information sources in leisure, tourism and sport.
What does SPRIG do? SPRIG has a number of
aims:
- To act as a special interest group for those
involved in disseminating and managing information in leisure,
tourism and sport.
- To disseminate information to users with an
interest in leisure, tourism and sport.
- To lobby information providers (such as
government organisations, publishers and specialist libraries) in
leisure, tourism and sport for better coordination in provision and
to identify gaps in that provision
- To improve awareness of leisure, tourism and
sport information sources, particularly to those outside the
library and information profession.
Who joins SPRIG? SPRIG represents all those who
have an interest in information relating to leisure, tourism,
sport, recreation and hospitality management in the UK.
SPRIG is relevant not only to those who work in
libraries and information services but also to publishers,
academics, students and to practitioners in the field who use
information sources and materials.
How is SPRIG managed? SPRIG is managed by an
executive committee, which is elected by the members of SPRIG.
How is SPRIG financed? SPRIG is financed by an
annual membership fee payable by all members.
What does SPRIG do to achieve its aims? SPRIG
engages in a number of activities in which members are encouraged
to become involved.
- Seminars are organised at least once per year.
Recent seminar themes have been the link between sport and tourism
and funding for sport.
- Visits are organised to various organisations.
Recent visits include the Yorkshire office of Sport England
- There is an active publications list. SPRIG
produces a number of free guides to information sources for its
members. It also publishes the proceedings of its seminars and a
directory of periodical holdings in sport and recreation.
- The SPRIG Bulletin is published twice yearly
and is sent to all members. It contains articles of interest to
members as well as information about the current activities of
SPRIG.
Who can I contact for more information?
Lesley Gunter
SPRIG Chair
The Sports Library
Central Library Surry Street
Sheffield S1 1XZ
Tel 0114 2735929
Email: sports.library@dial.pipex.com
or Martin Scarrott, Publicity Officer m.scarrott@unl.ac.uk
Martin Scarrott
Subject Librarian for Leisure & Tourism
The Learning Centre
University of North London
236-250 Holloway Road
London N7 6PP
Email: m.scarrott@unl.ac.uk
HERACLES DATA BASE ON THE WEB
The world's most comprehensive French
language database for sport and physical activities is now
available on the Internet at: www.sportdoc.unicaen.fr/heracles/
This means that Sportdoc Heracles with its 80
000 documentary references supplemented by the supply of new
services is positioned as the principal operator in the field of
French-speaking professional information concerning sport and
physical activities.
The presence on the Net imposes an
international dimension on the database and this is why the
Heracles site is presented with an English version so that the
international community can reach French-speaking sport
documentation.
Searches can be carried out in the two
languages and two modes of searching are proposed: a « guided
» search for the beginners and a « advanced » one
for the professional users.
Heracles, of course, is still remaining on SportDiscus, the sport
international information carrier.
Human Kinetics the world's largest sports
publisher has agreed to assist sport information centres in
developing countries by supplying these centres with books from
their "Hurt" book store. This means that Human Kinetics will send
copies of slightly damaged books to institutions in need, which do
not have the finances to purchase these books.
IASI has decided that it will operate the
scheme through the Vice Presidents for each Region. IASI members
wishing to receive donations through this Program should approach
the Vice President in their Region (in the case of Africa, which
currently does not have a Vice President through the IASI
President,) and a list of institutions will be collated.
Once this is done IASI will advise Human
Kinetics of the institutions which require assistance and a process
will be put in place for these institutions to choose the
categories of books they require and for IASI to assess the cost of
freighting the books to the countries requiring them. Depending on
the response it may not be possible for IASI to fund the freight of
all books but this is something which will be assessed once the
requests for assistance are received.
Institutions should approach their IASI Vice
President if they wish to participate in the Program. At the same
time Vice Presidents should make recommendations to the IASI
Secretariat of institutions which might benefit from the
Program.
Human Kinetics has initiated a similar program
with ICSSPE. This Program will provide tremendous benefits to
developing countries - already we have seen this with the donation
Human Kinetics made to the Oceania Centre in Fiji.
The Triumph of the Human Spirit - the
Official Commemorative Book of the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games
This book is available from:
DT Publishing
132 Main St. East, Suite 1
Grimsby Ontario L3M 1P1
CANADA
$29.95 CDN (taxes included) Shipping and
handling in North America $5.00 CDN Other countries $10.00 CDN
Training for Top Performance By Dr. Yitshak
Ben-Melech This is a book on the theory of training and
competition, written from the perspective of training for elite
athletic performance written by Dr. Ben-Melech who was Director of
the Elite Sports Department in Israel for 13 years, he is a
well-known figure in the elite sport world.
Colin Bauer
Gariep Publishing Company
P.O.Box 26605
Hout Bay 7872 Zimbabwe
Tel: 27-21-5323052
Singapore Sports Council
The Singapore Sports Council Website - http://www.ssc.gov.sg has a link to a
virtual sports museum site on their Intranet
Council of Europe Publications Two 1999 Council
of Europe publications may be of interest to IASI members
Study of National Sports Legislation in Europe
(ISBN 92-871-3833-8) US$25.00
Dying to Win - doping in sport and the
development of anti-doping policy
Barrie Houlihan
(ISBN 92-871-3589-4) US$30.00
Available from:
Council of Europe Publishing
F-67075 Strasbourg France
Fax +33 0 3 88 41 27 80
Email: publishing@coe.int
Website: http://book.coe.fr
Gretchen Ghent IASI Vice President for
North America has undertaken a mammoth task to create a subject
directory to scholarly sport sites on the Internet which is now
available at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/ssportsite
And ready for use by the sport community of scholars, information
specialists and researchers.
The website contains most of the references
Gretchen has been tracking and recording for the past year, some of
which have appeared in issues of NASLINE or have been tabled as
IASI annual meeting documents. It is hoped that this website will
meet some sport information needs as expressed at IASI
meetings.
The SSS website is organized by subjects and/or
document type (e.g. Serials). The Index of Sports Subjects on the
home/index page is hotlinked to the appropriate place in each file
section. Many sections have Notes at the top of the first page,
which outline the subject scope of the page. A simple keyword
search engine is available on the site. This search engine will
guide the user to the appropriate section of the website where the
word can be found. For many listings, organization names are in
English with the name repeated in the language of origin. In
addition, the acronym is included to provide more search
capabilities. More work needs to be done on this aspect,
however.
Users should also note the section entitled,
National Sport Structures and Organizations. As this topic is of
great concern to many IASI members, Gretchen thought it would be
useful to see if this format could be used to begin the updating of
the two documents edited by Albert Remans (1989 and 1990). One
country's entry is quite complete - Australia. The key elements of
the sport structure are referred to by the SSS website and
descriptions in fulltext are found on the Australian government
department and ASC websites. Australia is fortunate that their
federal statutes are available in fulltext also.
The US listing in this same section is an
example of how a country without a federal department for sport
could be listed. More work needs to be done here to give the
researcher additional sources of information. The Bibliography at
the end of this section should help researchers.
Another principle followed is that of referring
to another website which already has a comprehensive listing. A
case in point is the College/University departments on the Sport
Information Resouce Centre's SportQuest website. Note that this
section has recently been expanded to include many more countries
with university sport sciences departments.
Gretchen has asked that users of the service
let her know what is missing or needs updating. Email:gghent@ucalgary.ca
Ma Tie
IASI Member China
The 1999 annual national sports libraries
meeting was held in Guangzhou, China from May 5 to 7. 22
Representatives from fifteen libraries of physical education
colleges and university, including the Beijing PE University, PE
colleges of Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenyang, Chengdu and Xi'an,
participated the meeting.
Prof. Ma Tie, vice director of the China sports
Information Institute (CSII) was also invited at the meeting. A
working report was made which reviewed the development of sports
libraries in the past year. The meeting then laid focus on
discussing the project of establishing a nation-wide sports
libraries network on the Internet, especially a national combined
sports books catalogue database, which could help clients to search
sports books from any part of China. A working group headed by the
library of Beijing PE University and supported by the Science and
Education Dept. of the State Sports General Administration and CSII
was set up to complete the project within one year. A survey was
also made during the meeting on computers and Internet used in each
sports library of PE colleges. Results showed that the development
of modern technology in sports libraries in China is still lacking,
but compared with the situation two years ago, things have greatly
improved.
From May 24-29 1999 a training course was held
for librarians and indexers of sports libraries all over China who
will contribute to the establishment of a National Internet Sports
Documents Catalogue.
The training course was attended by 50 people
from sports libraries of Physical Education, University Colleges
and national and provincial sports information centres and aimed to
improve the participant's indexing skills and unify the indexing
standards for establishing a nation-wide Internet sport documents
catalogue.
The national combined sports documents
catalogue on the Internet will help clients to search sports
documents from any part of China. This is a project set up by the
State Sport General Administration (the formal State Sports
Commission) and undertaken by the China Sports Information
Institute (CSII). The project is planned to be completed in two and
a half years in two stages. The first stage is for sports books
catalogue to be administered by the National Sports Library Working
Committee headed by the library of Beijing University of Physical
Education. The second stage is for sports journals, audio-visual
materials and other sports documents and is to be administered by
CSII.
The catalogue database will include nearly all
the sports books and journals published in China since the founding
of the People's Republic 50 years ago. This project will be an
important step for automation of Chinese sports documents retrieval
and service and will be of great benefit to the sharing of sports
information in China and among Chinese speaking people all over the
world.
North America
From 27-30 October 1999 there will be a
Joint Conference of the North American Sport Library Network and
the International Association of Sports Museums and Halls of Fame
in Lake Placid New York.
The conference focuses on the technological
aspects of sports information delivery, museum organization,
promotion and education.
Australia
In November members of the Australian Sport
Information Network will meet at the South Australian Sports
Institute in Adelaide South Australia. High on the agenda for this
meeting will be the finalisation of the national sport information
strategy.
IASI Member Jose Antonio Aquesolo Vegas has
contributed an excellent article on the Latin-American Sports
Information Association - Sportcom to the ICSSPE Bulletin No.27
Fall 1999 p.48-49. The article outlines the history, goals and
recent work of the Association and is worth reading to see the
excellent work in sport information being done in Latin
America.
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
letter to the list, all you have to do is send an email to the
following address: IASI-L@VM.TAU.AC.IL
If you are NOT a list member and wish to become
one, then please email to: LISTSERV@VM.TAU.AC.IL Leave the
"Subject" line empty. Write "subscribe iasi-l" at the message area
If you have any difficulty with the list then please contact: Ayala
Maharik at willib@post.tau.ac.il
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