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IASI Newsletter
No. 17, January 2000
ISSN 1561-1183
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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:
Jill Haynes
Manager
National Sport Information Centre, Australian Sports
Commission
PO Box 176
Belconnen ACT 2616 Australia
Email jill.haynes@ausport.gov.au
Fax (+61) 262141681
IASI Secretary now on the Internet contact:
albert.remans@cfwb.be
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 Mar,
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.
Nerida Clarke, the current President of
IASI has advised that she has resigned her position with the
Australian Sports Commission and is taking up a new position
outside of the field of sport information however she has indicated
a willingness to stay on as President of IASI until the expiration
of her term in 2001. The IASI Executive Committee will discuss this
matter when it meets in Chile in April 2000. At this meeting
preparations will begin for the IASI elections which will take
place in Lausanne in 2001.
Preparations are now well underway for
the IASI World Congress with the 2nd announcement and the call for
papers brochure having been prepared and distributed to some 3000
possible attendees.
IASI members are encouraged to complete the
preliminary registration form and the call for papers form as soon
as possible to assist in the planning of the Congress.
Nuria Puig of the IOC has done an excellent job
in finalising the brochure and arranging the distribution.
If members would like additional copies of the
brochure please contact:
- IASI Congress Secretariat
Olympic Museum
Quai d'Ouchy 1
1001 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone +41 21 6216511
Fax +41 21 6216512
Dr. Hartmut Sandner of the Information
Documention Sport Department Institute for Applied Training Science
Leipzig (Germany) has advised that a new database has been
developed by his Department. The database is called sponet.de and
can be found on the Internet at: http://www.sponet.de
The database contains more than 2000 sport and
sport scientific WWW resources. It is intended to make the access
to such resources easier and more effective for all people
interested in sport science and primarily in training science.
To find resources several options have been
made available:
- Free text search in all fields (for almost all
of the resources there are German or English summaries
available)
- keyword search with up to three keywords which
can be combined with either "and" or "or". For this reason a list
of about 700 keywords is used today to index the resources.
- notations (complex groups of selected
contents, for example one group for endurance sports)
- level (you may choose between basic -
intermediate - advanced)
- type of document (for example e-journal or an
individual research report)
- language
- publication country
- search the input of the last week.
All these search tools are available in German
and English.
The database is continuously extended and is
considered to be an addition to the already existing ways to
identify information in electronic library catalogues or electronic
databases. As far as we know sponet.de offers really a new way to
find relevant WWW resources. All resources are evaluated, indexed
and first then input into the database by an experienced team of
indexers having done index work for more than 15 years.
We invite all of you to visit the sponet.de
site, to search it and to consider contributing to it with new or
until now not yet input WWW resources. All hints are very welcome
and we are ready and willing to introduce all interesting new
resources as soon as possible to make them available to the
international sport scientific community.
- Dr. Hartmut Sandner
Information Documention Sport Department
Institute for Applied Training Science Leipzig (Germany)
Report on the Joint Conference of the
International Association of Sport Museums and Halls of Fame And
the North American Sport Library Network Lake Placid, NY October
27-30, 1999
Feedback from participants of the first Joint
Conference of IASMHF and NASLIN has been most positive. Many
sessions had strong participation from members of both
organizations, especially the NASLIN session on Photo Collections
and Website: To Digitize or Not to Digitize. This session featured
James Gates, Library Director, National Baseball Hall of Fame and
Museum and the co-speaker, Douglas Stark, Archivist/Librarian,
Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and Museum. Agnes Croxford,
Managing Director of the Leisure Information Network in Toronto
demonstrated the flexibility and scope of the LIN database.
Baseball book author, Joe Wallace, recounted his experiences using
various archival collections and provided librarians/archivists and
museum professionals with the most important institutional
conditions which assist the avid archives researcher. Kent State
University Reference Librarian, Kara Robinson discussed her varied
experiences as moderator of three lists/e-conferences supplying
much needed advice on the pitfalls one can encounter.
A corporate-based speaker, Jeff Moyer from Bell
& Howell Learning Inc (formerly UMI) afforded a look into the
future of large digitized, historical research collections
outlining the work being done presently at BHL.
The three days in Lake Placid were not all
work, work, work. Social events provided a wonderful setting for
members to intermingle and discuss topics of mutual concern. On
Friday afternoon, after tours of the Lake Placid Olympic Training
Centre, tryouts were held on the temporary luge track and a few
daring NASLIN members demonstrated their skills on the luge sled.
Much fun was had by all. At the Saturday afternoon meeting of the
NASLIN Steering Committee, Gretchen Ghent was re-elected Chair (to
2001), and 7 Steering Committee members have their term extended to
2001 also. They are:
Steve Gietschier, The Sporting News
Shirley Ito, Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles
Henriette Heiny, International Inst. For Sport and Human
Performance
Dave Kelly, Library of Congress
Linda Wheeler, Sport Information Resource Centre
James Gates, National Baseball Hall of Fame
Cindy Romaine, Nike Inc.
The Steering Committee accepted the resignation
from Jan Todd and thanked her for her participation on the NASLIN
Steering Committee. The 8th Conference of NASLIN is slated for
August 10-11, 2001 hosted by NASLIN Steering Committee member Cindy
Romaine and her employer, Nike Inc at the Nike campus in Beaverton,
Oregon. Discussions are underway for 2002 and there is a
possibility that the 9th conference will be a joint IASMHF/NASLIN
conference held in Calgary, late October 2002.
As members of IASI will be aware IASI has
had a long and fruitful relationship with the International Council
for Sports Sciences and Physical Education (ICSSPE). Currently
Albert Remans the Secretary General of IASI represents IASI on the
ICSSPE Editorial Board and on the Member of Association's Board of
ICSSPE.
IASI is currently collaborating with ICSSPE on
a number of projects including the facilitation and running of the
Internet Café at the Pre-Olympic Scientific Congress to be
held the week before the start of the Olympic Games in the city of
Brisbane, Australia.
IASI has also been asked to participate in the
production of a volume of ICSSPE's Perspectives serial publication
on sport information and technology which will commence production
after the Olympic Games.
A major sport information initiative put
forward to the ICSSPE Board for consideration by IASI, in
cooperation with IASI member SIRC (Sport Information Resource
Centre - Canada) was the proposal to have a representative of an
organisation affiliated with ICSSPE provide a critique/evaluation
of recent articles that have been added to the SPORTDiscus data
base on that particular subject or discipline. The critique or
evaluation would rate the articles for the benefit of those
searchers of the database that are looking for useful material to
read as "the best place to start to gain in-depth information " on
a certain topic.
SIRC would modify records on the SPORTDiscus to
include the evaluation material and on the SPORTQuest Internet site
a page entitled "ICSSPE Recommends" would be established listing
the chosen articles along with the evaluation .
The ICSSPE Editorial Committee at its last
meeting in Sao Paulo considered this to be a worthwhile project and
recommended the project to the ICSSPE Executive Committee who
agreed to undertake the project for a six month trial period once
an organisation had been found from the ICSSPE membership to
undertake the trial.
This project is an example of the way in which
IASI through its members (in this case SIRC) can work with ICSSPE
to facilitate greater access to quality sport information.
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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