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IASI Newsletter
No. 5, June 1996
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.
Since the IASI annual meeting held in Malaga in Spain in May
1995 IASI has been fortunate to have the services of Steve Hewett
from the Centre for Sports Science and History, Main Library,
University of Birmingham UK who has diligently and professionally
edited and prepared the IASI Newsletter. Steve has now taken up a
position outside sport information and has had to resign as editor
of the Newsletter. The members of IASI would like to thank Steve
for his efforts in producing the Newsletter which has proved to be
a very successful communication tool serving a membership located
in all parts of the world. We wish Steve every success in his
future career.
A new Editor for the Newsletter will be appointed at the IASI
meeting in Israel however in the interim comments and contributions
should be forwarded to:
- Nerida Clarke
- Director Information Services
- Australian Sports Commission
- PO Box 176
- Belconnen ACT 2616 Australia
- (email nclarke@ausport.gov.au
- Fax (+61) 062521681.
For information about IASI contact:
- The IASI Secretariat c/o Sport for All
- Clearinghouse, Espace 27 Septembre
- Boulevard Leopold -II, no.44
- B - 1080 Brussels
- Belgium
- Telephone (+32) 2 413 2893
- Fax (+32) 2 413 2890
Because of the cancellation of the May IASI Annual Meeting
thePresidium has decided after consultation with the Executive
Committee to reschedule the annual meeting for 1-6 September 1996.
The Wingate Institute after putting so much effort into the
planning of the May meeting has kindly offered to host the
September meeting. Invitations will be issued to IASI members along
with the revised agenda in the next few days.
At the 1995 IASI Meeting in Malaga a workshop session on the
Future of IASI was held. The workshop aimed to identify the key
concerns and issues which IASI should address in the future with a
view to incorporating these in the future working plan of IASI
which would be adopted at the 1997 General Assemby of IASI.
At the IASI Presidium meeting in Paris it was decided that the
whole membership of IASI should be asked for their views on Key
Issues which Mr Bruno-Rossi Mori has colated based on the Malaga
discussions. In order to obtain members views a questionnaire is
being distributed in hard copy and through the Internet IASI Home
Page. Responses to the questionnaire should be returned by 1 August
1996.
It is important that members express their views on the future
of IASI so please respond to the questionnaire.
European Journal of Physicional Educat
This official journal of the Physical Education Association of
the UK will be published from December 1996. the journal will
provide an international forum for the disssemination of research
in physical education. Subscription details available from:
- Peter Harrison
- Managing Editor
- European journal of physical education
- PEA UK
- Suite 5 10 Churchill Square
- Kings Hill
- West Malling Kent ME19 4DU
- UK
Sport Education and Society
This journal is published twice a year and provides a focal
point for research on pedagogy, policy and a wide range of
associated cultural, social, political and ethical issues in
physical activity and sport. The journal is published by :
- Carfax Publishing Company
- PO Box 25
- Abingdon Oxfordshire OX 14 3UE UK
The 6th Meeting of NORSIB, the Cooperative Body for Sport
Information in the Nordic countries was held in Oslo Norway from
October 5-6 1995. The meeting was hosted by the Library of the
Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education and 14
participants from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland attended.
Some of the topics discussed and decisions made at the meeting
included:
- The NORSIB calendar will not be published anymore. Instead, a
NORSIB homepage will be established. WWW Pages will be produced in
Swedish and English. The Jyvaskyla University Library will be in
charge of the project and the NORSIB homepage will be attached to
its WWW document.
- The Nordic sport scientific thesaurus includes English, Finnish
and Norwegian counterparts so far. Swedish and Danish tcrms will be
added in the list later.
- Some hypermedia products produced at the University of
Jyvaskyla were presented for example "Infomation retrieval and
library usage introductory course for physical education students"
(HyperSport), as well as the WWW document of the Jyvaskyla
University Library.
- The reports of the IASI meetings in Canberra, Australia and
Malaga, Spain were presented. Discussions were held about the
election of the Chairman for instance. Thoughts about the usage of
the Sport database as well as about the availability of its primary
data from the Nordic libraries'viewpoint were exchanged.
The meeting offered participants interesting lectures on topics
such as athletes' eating disorders and a digital library.
Furthermore, participants had an opportunity to visit the new
facilities of the library and the university and the research
centre of top sports.
The next NORSIB meeting will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark in
1997.
Steve Hewett has resigned as the Librarian of the Centre for
Sports History and Sports Science Main Library at the University of
Birmingham to take up a position in the Main Library as the Liaison
Librarian for the Faculty of Science. As mentioned in the Editorial
Steve has done a great job as Editor of the IASI Newsletter and we
thank him for his work.
Boodie Newsom-McGinnis has resigned as the IASI Vice President
North America as she has taken up a position as Associate
Librarian/Head of Public Services at Cornell University's School of
Hotel Administration Library. Boodie has made a valueable
contribution to IASI over nearly 15 years and her input will be
sadly missed. She intends to continue her personal membership of
IASI but is unlikely to be able to attend future meetings. She will
not be moving house and has said that she hopes she can maintain
contact with her many IASI friends.
Sally Hall has returned from maternity leave to the Sports
Council in London. Welcome back Sally!
Internet Connections are now available for two IASI Members Mr
Ma Tie of China advises that he can be contacted on email at the
following address: csiixyz@public.bta.net.cn
Erika Schwarz of Consejo Superior de Deportes Spain also advises
that she has an Internet email address this is erika.schwarz@cnicd.csd.es.
The internationally renowned Olympic Museum, located in
Lausanne, Switzerland, signed an agreement with the Sport
Information Resource Centre in January 1996. This agreement will
allow the bibliographic database of the Museum's library to be
included on the SPORT DiscusCD-ROM. The Olympic Museum acknowledged
that this will allow for international access to this unique
collection of Olympic information resources.
The Olympic Museum, which is a foundation of the International
Olympic Committee (IOC), was founded in 1922 when it was first
housed in premises in Montbenon, Switzerland. It later moved to
Mon-Repos Villa in Lausanne and operated there until 1970. No
exhibits were displayed after 1970 until the re-establishment of
the Olympic Museum in 1982 by the IOC. In 1993 it moved to its new
modern facilities at Ouchy in the centre of Lausanne.
The Museum puts the Olympic Movement on display and provides
constant information on the Games. The library of the Olympic
Museum contains over 15,000 volumes relating to the IOC,the Games,
and Olympic disciplines as well as sport in general and its
relations with health, art and culture. It is constantly being
enriched by new additions.
The Sport Information Resource Centre was founded in 1973 and is
a nonprofit organization which indexes the literature of sport
through its on-line SPORT Database and its CD-ROM SPORT Discus. The
SPORT Discus currently includes the SPORT Database (over 375,000
bibliographic citations) and also France's largest sport
information database, Sportdoc's Heracles database (over 55,000
bibliographic citations). The SPORT Database and the SPORT Discus
are currently being used in over 50 countries around the world and
by more than 200,000 people annually.
The addition of the Olympic Museum's database to the SPORT
Discus will allow for worldwide access to this unique collection of
sport information. It is planned that the Olympic Museum's database
will be added to the SPORT Discus in its July update. This
information would then be accessible prior to the commencement of
the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta this summer.
The latest quarterly update of the CD-ROM SPORT Discus is now
available from SilverPlatter Information. It offers a complete
reload of the entire SPORT Database, fully incorporating recent
changes and corrections. For the first time on SPORT Discus, many
of the citations to the periodical literature now feature ISSNs.
This will be extremely useful to all organizations using the
SilverPlatter Library Holdings software which allows users to match
the database against the library's own holdings files.
With this update, it now also possible to search the whole
database by Subject Headings not only in English, but also in
French and in Spanish. Searchers now have the added capabilities of
searching and viewing Italian and Spanish language abstracts and
descriptors (keywords) on those bibliographic records which have
been submitted by the database indexing partners, the Comitato
Olimpico Nazionale Italiano - Centro di Documentazione Sportiva in
Rome and the Instituto Andaluz del Deporte in Malaga. This enhanced
language access is the perfect complement to SilverPlatter's search
software which is now available in English, French, German and
Spanish.
The Sport Database / Discus and other SIRC products are
available from:
- Sport Information Resource Centre
- 1600 James Naismith Dr.
- Gloucester ON, Canada K1B 5N4
- Fax: (613)748-5701
- E-mail: moreinfo@sirc.ca.
- World Wide Web site: http://www.sirc.ca.
The ICSSPE Board Meeting was held in Brisbane from 4-6 February
1996. As she was geographically close Nerida Clarke the IASI
Oceania Vice President attended the meeting and represented
IASI.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee and Commonwealth Games
Association now have a presence on the Internet. The address is
www.olympic.org.nz/nzocga/nzocga.html
NBC the television network in the USA has established a WWW site
with statistical, biographical and historical information on the
Olympic Games the address is: www.olympic.nbc.com
Recently a World Sport For All Data Base has been announced.
This data base is being run by the International Sport for All
Federation and the European Sport For All Union. The data base
which currently has limited information will be expanded as
countries respond to a recently distributed questionnaire which
asks for details of their Sport for All organisations and programs.
For further information on the data base contact: FISpT Permanent
Office Molendal 26, 1700 Dilbeek, Belgium Telephone: 32.2/569.07.21
or Fax: 32.2/569.43.77 or view the Internet home page for the data
base at /www.avnet.it/fispt-uespt.
The New Zealand Sports Foundation is being revamped to unite the
best features of the existing New Zealand Sports Foundation and the
high performance unit of the Hillary Commission. The Foundation
will co-ordinate the funding and management of high performance
sport to ensure New Zealand's success at the 2000 Olympic Games and
other international sporting contests.
IASI has published a new edition of this Directory which now
lists over 100 organisations in all continents who provide sport
information resources and services. The Directory has been
completely updated and now contains a full index. Copies of the
Directory will be distributed free of charge to all organisations
who provided an entry for the Directory other organisations and
individuals will be required to pay US$25.00 for the Directory. In
the near future the complete Directory will be available on the
IASI Home Page on the Internet.
Orders for the Directory should be sent to Sport Information
Resource Centre 1600 James Naismith Drive, Gloucester Ontario
Canada K1B 5N4.
Gilles Chiasson is currently working on the compilation of the
holdings of sport periodicals indexed on the Sport data base which
are held by IASI member libraries and documentation centres. If you
have not submitted holdings you may still do so and these will be
included in the list prior to publication in September 1996. The
aim of this listing is to help identify who in the world is holding
periodicals indexed on the data base. Eventually it is hoped that
these holdings may be included on Sport Discus.
VIDEOTAPE ON INSEP
L'Institut nation du sport et de l'éducation physique
(INSEP) in France has produced a videotape which describes INSEP
and its programs for the preparation of athletes. For more
information regarding obtaining a copy of the videotape please
contact Mr Alain Poncet Service de Documentation INSEP 11 avenue du
Tremblay 75012 Paris France.
INSEP has produced this important work which lists in French and
English all the key words and phrases used in relation to the 26
Summer Olympic sports. In the future a similar work will be
produced for the winter Olympic sports. The book 'Lexique
anglais/francais des sports olympiques' Paris, INSEP, 1995(ISBN
2-86580-080-6) is available from Librarie Vigot-Maloine 23 rue de
l'Ecole de Medicine 75006 Paris (Fax 46 34 05 89) at a cost of
100FF plus postage.
The Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles sports resource
centre has completed a three language kiosk version of its
interactive multimedia program 'An Olympic Journey: the story of
women in the Olympic Games'. The program, which runs in English,
French and Spanish, will be part of the OLYMPIC WOMAN exhibition,
one of the events of the Atlanta Games Cultural Olympiad.
Organisers anticipate that 500,000 people will visit the Olympic
Woman exhibition.
This newly formed network consists of over 250 institutions in
Europe who are involved in physical education and sport. Mr Bruno
Rossi-Mori has been involved in discussions with the network
regarding the importance of information and is promoting the
activities of IASI to the network including the Paris 1997
Congress. Mr Rossi-Mori advises that ENSSHE has agreed to work
towards co-operation with IASI and to develop a European Agreement
for Sport Information Exchanges. Two immediate actions will take
place. Firstly an invitation will be sent to all librarians,
information and documentation experts in the institutions which are
members of ENSSHE inviting them to participate in the 1997 IASI
Congress in Paris.
Secondly ENSSHE will ask four or five institutions to help with
the management of data base projects already commenced and in
getting this information onto the Internet. The selected institutes
will be INSEP in Paris, INEFC in Barcelona, University of Jyvaskyla
in Finland, the Scuola dello Sport in Rome and BISP in Cologne.
These institutions are already members of IASI so there will be a
definite link between the work of ENSSHE and IASI.
For more information on the activities of the network please
contact Mr Bruno Rossi-Mori at Divisione Documentazione e
Information CONI Foro Italico 1 00194 Rome Italy (Fax 39 6
36857873).
After the cancellation of the May 1996 1996 IASI Annual Meeting
it was decided to hold a meeting of the IASI Presidential Board
(Presidium) at INSEP in Paris to:
(a) ensure the continued operation of IASI for
1996/97 particularly in relation to the budget and the working
program
(b) discuss preparations for the 1997 IASI Congress in Paris
(c) discuss the implications of the cancellation of the meeting
on the Presidential election and:
(d) to decide if in fact a 1996 IASI meeting should be held and
if so where that meeting should be. The Presidium meeting was
attended by Mr Gilles Chiasson (President), Mr Albert Remans
(Secretary/Treasurer), Mr Ma Tie and Mr Zhao Yaping (Vice President
Asia), Ms Esparanza Bobes (Vice President Latin America), Mr Bruno
Rossi-Mori (Vice President Europe), Mrs Nerida Clarke (Vice
President Oceania) and observers Ms Donatello Minelli (Italy) and
Mr Alain Poncet (France). Apologies were received from Mr Lawrie
Templhof (Vice President Acting Africa).
1. Based on the IASI Statutes and the operational needs of the
Association the Presidium proposed to hold a meeting in the Autumn
of 1996. Before making a final decision on a meeting the Presidium
agreed to ask members of the Executive Committee to express their
views regarding an Autumn meeting.
2. An Extraordinary General Assembly will be organised (together
with the meeting of the Executive Committee OR by post) before the
end of this year. This General Assembly will have to elect a new
IASI President as well as two Vice-presidents (for Africa and North
America).
3. The Presidential Board welcomed Mrs Nerida Clarke as the new
Editor-in-chief of the IASI Newsletter. Another four issues of the
Newsletter will be published before the next Paris Congress in June
1997.The Newsletter will be disseminated to a larger public and a
translation in Portuguese (through Sibradid, Belo Horizonte) will
be encouraged.
4. The Presidential Board decided to give priority to the IASI
Newsletter in stead of the Bulletin. Documents of major importance
will be published in an extra issue of the Newsletter.
5. The Presidential Board accepted the proposal of the Scuola
dello Sport to revise the booklet "IASI, yesterday, today,
tomorrow". Mr Chiasson, out-going President of IASI volunteered to
coordinate the manuscript of this new edition.
6. The Directory of Sports Information and information centres
will be mailed (free of charge) to all Centres included in the
publication. Additional copies are available at US$25.00.
7. The Presidential Board welcomed the invitation of the
organisers of the Pre-Olympic Scientific Congress in Dallas in July
1996 to organise a IASI Symposium on Sports Information within the
official programme of this world Congress.
8.The Presidium decided to send a questionnaire regarding the
future policy of the Association to the IASI members in order to
prepare the General Assembly of 1997 in Paris.
9.Finally, the Presidium took note of the efforts made by the
French organisors concerning the IASI Scientific Congress in 1997.
On Thursday 9 May the members of the Presidium participated at the
Second Preparatory Meeting for this Congress.
10. The Presidium agreed on the following budget for 1996
- 1.Functioning of the secretariat $1500
- 2.Coordination of meetings $2000
- 3.Representation meetings $2400
- 4.(Bulletin IASI) pm
- 5.IASI Newsletter $3000
- 6.0ther publications $1000
- 7.Financial transactions 600
- 8.Application Fund $6000
- 9.Databasc of addresses 500
- 10.Marketing of products $2000
- 11.Miscellaneous 500
TOTAL $19,500
11.The Presidium also approved the Report of IASI Auditor
Accounting (fiscal year 1995, 1 April 1995 - 31 March 1996) as well
as the Financial Balance dated 1 April 1996 showing a positive
credit of 23.708,48.
12.The Presidium considered proposals received since the
beginning of 1995. The meeting decided to ask for additional
information on the projects introduced by Mr Guskov (Russian
references), Mr Krapka (Czech Republic, translation thesaurus) and
Mrs Edeltraud (Honduras, publication)
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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