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IASI Newsletter
No. 8, March 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
- Email nclarke@ausport.gov.au
- Fax (+61) 062521681
The conference organisers Alain Poncet and his team from INSEP
in Paris have reported that everything is on track for the best
ever IASI Congress to be held in Paris from 7-13 June 1997.
The 10th Scientific Congress will take place from 10-12 June
1997 at "La Maison du Sport Francais" head office of the French
National Olympic Committee, 1 rue Piere de Coubertin - 75013 Paris
and will be preceded by the annual IASI meetings and consultative
forum from 7-9 June and will be followed on 13 June by the IASI
General Assembly.
To date over 100 abstracts from all parts of the world have been
submitted covering the 5 major themes of the Congress.
The Congress organisers have advised that those intending to
attend the conference should make their accommodation bookings as
soon as possible.
For information regarding the Congress please contact:
- Organising Committee
- IASI 10th Scientific Congress
- 11 avenue du Tremblay
- 75012 Paris
- France
- Fax: (33) 1 48081960
- Email: FRA7501@CRIUC.UNICAEN.FR
SPECIAL CONGRESS WORKSHOP ON SPORT DISCUS
A workshop on searching techniques for the SPORTDiscus database
will be given by Jean-Michel Johnson of the Sport Information
Resource Centre (SIRC) during the IASI upcoming 10th Scientific
Congress. In Paris. The workshop will be held on June 9th, 1997
from 13:00 to 17:00. The fee for the workshop is 200 FF.
To register, please contact:
- Organizing Committee of the 10th Scientific Congress
Secretariat
- 11, avenue du Tremblay
- 75012 Paris, France
- Tel: 33 01 41 74 07
- Fax: 33 01 48 08 19 60
- e-mailFRA7501@CLENCHE.MSH.UNICAEN.FR
The Paris Congress will be the time of the IASI 4 year General
Assembly and it is at that time that members will elect the IASI
President, Regional Vice Presidents and Executive Committee
members. It should be noted that only financial institutional and
personal members of IASI are eligible to vote therefore membership
payments must be made immediately.
It should be noted that members may vote in three ways:
- By attending the General Assembly
- By sending a proxy
- By using a postal vote
The Secretary General has recently distributed a circular
regarding voting procedures. If you have not received this
information or have not paid membership fees please 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.
Richard Stark Vice President of SIRC resigned from his position
in February 1997 after 16 years to pursue a new career in the
information technology industry. Richard will be remembered for his
work on the Sport Database which for many members is a key
operational tool. We wish him well in his new career path.
Marion Fournier is now Head of Indexing and Christine Lalande is
Head of Client Services. For any marketing issues, please contact
Linda Wheeler, Marketing Coordinator. SIRC is currently advertising
for a Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Planning.
Craig Boaden has been appointed as the new manager of Research
and Information at the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic
Games (SOCOG) replacing Melissa Kimmerly who is undertaking project
work for SOCOG.
Craig has a background in education, in information consultancy
and spent several years with the Australian Agency for
International Development (AusAID) where he worked in information
management, administration, and foreign aid project work. Craig's
interest in information management stems from his belief that wide
access to information is an important foundation for the
sustainable maintenance of truly egalitarian and democratic
societies. His belief in the power of the Olympic movement as a
force for global reconciliation and his love for his native city of
Sydney led him to SOCOG, where he hopes to be able to contribute to
the success of the "Athletes' Games" in Sydney in 2000.
EVENTS CALENDARS
There are now 2 international events calendars on the Internet.
One is an online version of Sportcal International which some IASI
members have previously subscribed to on disc and the other is
called Sport97 and is run by a UK company entitled the Press
Connection. Both services operate with limited free information and
more detailed information being provided to subscribers.
The addresses are as follows:
SPORTCAL INTERNATIONAL www.sportcal.co.uk
SPORT97 www.sport97.com
NEW ZEALAND INTERNET SITES LAUNCHED
2 new and interesting Internet sites have just been launched in
New Zealand these are:
NEW ZEALAND HILLARY COMMISSION SITE
This site contains information about the Commission and its
programmes - such as "Green Prescriptions" - there are sports facts
culled from a variety of surveys including the initial results from
a new sports participation survey and much, much more... "Running
Sport", the new set of booklets for volunteers in sports clubs and
regional associations can be downloaded using Adobe Acrobat.
A kid's page for 8-12 year olds includes school projects and a
"hyperzine".
Find this site at: www.hillarysport.org.nz
NEW ZEALAND SPORTS FOUNDATION
The NZ Sports Foundation launched a site Sports Link Information
Exchange late last year. This is a forum for sports people
(particularly coaches) and sport professionals to exchange
information, news and ideas. It includes information about the
Foundation, and presents Sports Talk -discussion forums on sports
science, drugs in sport, sports medicine, and coaching.
Find Sports Link at: http://www.sportlink.org.nz
WOMENS SPORTS FOUNDATION SITE
Web address is www.lifetimetv.com/WoSport
SPORTSCI SITE
This site comes from University of Otago in New Zealand and is
sponsored by The Royal Society of New Zealand. Will Hopkins the
moderator, has proposed a new e-journal called: Sportscience: an
interdisciplinary journal of research and human performance. He
hopes to get the first issue off the ground in 1997. There are many
other things on the site of interest to sport scientists.
The address is www.sportsci.org
NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME
Another excellent site in North America is The National Baseball
Hall of Fame. IASI members might like to look at this site as an
example of a well done site.
The address is: www.enews.com/bas_hall_fame
SPORTING NEWS SITE
The USA Sporting News site is another well done site done by
James Meier.
Address is www.sportingnews.com
BRAZILIAN LISTSERV SITES
The following Brazilian listservs on Sport, Physical Education
and Leisure may be of interest to IASI members:
a) CEVHIST-L - list of History of Sport and Physical Education.
Send a message:subscribe cevhist-l your name address: listproc@server.nib.unicamp.br
b) EFESPORT-L - general list of Physical Education and Sport
Send a message: subscribe efesport-l your name address: listserv@cesar.unicamp.br
c) CEVLAZER-L - list of leisure send a message: subscribe
cevlazer-l your name address: listserv@server.nib.unicamp.br
100 YEARS OF THE IOC
If you are interested in finding out information on the Olympics
the following book published by the IOC in 1996 will be of great
assistance.
Fabulous 100 years of the IOC Facts - Figures - and much, much
more by Wolf Lyberg. Lausanne, International Olympic Committee,
1996 (411 p.) Published in English and French. ISBN 929 1490
202.
This book has information on IOC Members, Olympic Realia (IOC
name, Olympic Cup, Olympic Flag, Oaths, Anthems, Insignia, Flame
etc), Bidding, Television Rights, Doping, Participation at Summer
and Winter Olympics. This book will help answer many questions
relating to the Olympics.
If you are interested in this book please contact:
- International Olympic Committee
- Chateau de Vidy
- C.P. 356
- 1007 Lausanne
- Switzerland
- Fax: 41 21 621 62 16
AUSTRALIAN SPORTS DIRECTORY
The Australian Sports Commission has published its annual Sports
Directory which lists all Australian sporting organisations with
their contacts. This year the Directory includes an expanded list
of all events to take place in Australia in 1997.
Available from:
- Publications Program
- Australian Sports Commission
- PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
- Belconnen ACT 2616
- Australia
- Fax 0011 61 6 2521995
- Cost: A$20.00 + A$6.00 postage
NZ HILLARY COMMISSION BOOKLETS
The Hillary Commission has just produced a set of booklets to
assist volunteers in sports clubs and regional associations. There
are nine titles: Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers, Club
Secretary, Managing Meetings, Marketing and Media, Funding and
Sponsorship, Club Planning, Managing Money, Event Management, and
The Sports Team Manager.
Download these resources from the Hillary Commission web site:
www.hillarysport.org.nz
For more information on these contact:
- Robin White, Librarian
- The Hillary Commission
- PO Box 2251, Wellington, New Zealand
- Fax: +64-4-4710813
- Email: rwhite@actrix.gen.nz
This recent posting to the SPORTHIST Listserv (Sport History
Scholars List) on the Internet might be of interest to IASI
members.
This posting reported that on January 9th 1997 that Anke Brunn,
Minister for research and higher education in the German state of
Northrhine-Westfalia, ceremoniously opened the new building of the
German Central Library of Sport, Zentralbibliothek der
Sportwissenschaften.
Located in a wooded suburb of Cologne and placed in the centre
of the Higher Institute of Sport (Deutsche Sporthochschule) campus,
the project was completed in less than two years. The total costs
remained under 15 million DM, financed jointly with federal and
state funds.
When the German library network was remodeled after the end of
the Second World War, the Cologne Higher Institute of Sports became
the centre of sport education in West-Germany. Its library traces
its origin back to the day in 1947 when a British army truck
appeared on the campus dumping a load of books and journals onto
the lawn. The stock had been secretly taken from Berlin where it
had formed part of a national sport collection. At first only
ramshackle quarters could be found, and it took until 1963 that
adequate storage was assured. That year the Institute's central
administrative offices were opened, and the library moved its stock
to two floors of that edifice.
The premises were far from ideal for library use, and they
furthermore soon proved too small for an ever growing student body.
With just 40 seats in its reading section and its catalogues placed
in the hallway, everyone believed in a short temporary arrangement.
But due to budgetary restraints, plans for a new building were
delayed from year to year. When the German Research Association
(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft = DFG) in 1977 conferred the
national sport collection to the library, the number of annual
acquisitions rose steeply, but not in line with the space available
for their storage. Thus soon books and journals were housed in the
basement, and later in abandoned wardrobes, dressing rooms and
equipment halls. Its quarters were so cramped, that state agencies
responsible for the supervision of fire-prevention regulations
several times even threatened a partial closure of the library.
In 1986 the ministry in charge finally agreed to fund a new
building for the beleaguered institution. The first draft foresaw
4.400 sqm of usable space, whittled down to 3.00 sqm in the course
of detailed negotiations. A site was chosen, unfortunately a rather
elongated piece of land, and in 1994 construction was finally
begun. The new library is built as a five-storey structure, placed
in a north-south direction on the campus. Via a small pedestrian
bridge, which also permits handicapped person an unencumbered
access, it is connected with the Federal Institute of Sport
Research. The longitudinal edifice (79 x 16 m) with slanting metal
roofs encompasses three glass-covered light shafts which permit
natural light to get into the building.
On the west side a line of trees will provide shade from the
summer heat. The 3000 sqm of usable space offer ample room for
catalogues, reading areas, cd-rom, microfiche-readers and book
storage.
As a specialized library subsidized by DFG funds, the library
collects sport literature from publishers worldwide. It also
subscribes to a large number of journals covering even special
sport activities such as paragliding, inline skating and deep-sea
diving.
Periodicals are also collected irrespective of their language or
country of origin. The scope of the library's collection also
extends to government publications, grey literature, conference
proceedings, reports and theses. The library not only provides
literature for a substantial local usership (7.000 students), it
furthermore receives requests for sport literature from a growing
national and international clientele. In order to extend its
services and to make consultation from afar possible, the Ministry
agreed to finance the costs of an online-catalogue (OPAC). More
difficult to put into practice will be the plan, cherished by
library director Karl-Heinz Lemke, to open the library for longer
hours during the week, because the state has become rather cautious
in creating more posts.
Gernot U. Gabel who wrote this piece on the Listserv works as
deputy librarian in the Cologne university library.
Preston Levi Librarian of the International Swimming Hall of
Fame reports that the Hall of Fame is now supporting two Internet
WWW sites:
www.ishof.org and www.fina.org.
Unfortunately, the library catalog is not currently included.
IASI members are advised that the International Swimming Hall of
Fame is willing to to assist with aquatic sports questions.
The email address for the ISHOF is: library@ishof.org
- Preston Levi
- Director
- The Henning Library at the International Swimming Hall of
Fame
- 1 Hall of Fame Drive
- Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 USA
- Phone: (954)462-6536, Ext. 204
- Fax: (954)522-4521
- Anne-Mette Vibe
- Chief Librarian
- Norwegian University of Sports & Physical Education,
- Oslo, Norway
The library at the Norwegian University of Sports and Physical
Education is the place with the responsibility for sports
information in Norway. The Library is one of the seven large
university and college libraries in the country responsible for one
subject.
The library's main activities are
- to serve students and staff members at the university, as well
as other libraries in Norway and abroad, and individuals from
outside the university.
- to provide services such as lending service of books and
periodicals, references, copying of articles and reader education
for students and staff. The staff have access to the CD-ROMs SPORT,
MEDLINE, SPOLIT, Norwegian UB-Bok.
The library has, through national cooperation, access to OCLC
FirstSearch and ISI (Science Search, Social Science Search and Arts
& Humanities Search). The staff have direct access to these
databases.
Since 1994 the library has been a member of the national
university database BIBSYS. All literature from 1986, including
some articles, are in the database. This data base can be searched
via the Internet.
There are 7 staff members covering 6 full time jobs. The
staffing consists of a university librarian, 4 librarians, a
consultant and a secretary.
In March 1995 the library moved to a new location in the
research building which was completed in spring 1995. The space and
the equipment of this new library are very satisfactory.
Internationally there is cooperation through a number of
activities. The University cooperates with IASI, has Nordic
cooperation through NORSIB, and has cooperation with the education
library at University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Last fall our
library organized the NORSIB meeting.
The address of the library is:
- Norges Idrettshogskole
- Biblioteket
- Boks 4014 U.H.
- 0806 Oslo, Norway
- Phone: 47 22 18 56 44
- Fax: 47 22 23 42 20
- e-mail:annemv@brage.idrettshs.no
Report presented at 1996 IASI Meetings.
Changes in the LIKES-Information Service and Jyvaskyla
University Library reported to the 1996 IASI meeting by Anitta
Palvimaki Head of Department LIKES - Information Service for Sport
and Health Sciences
Name Change
The English names of the LIKES-Information Service and the
LIKES-Research Center have been changed. The new names are LIKES -
Information Service for Sport and Health Sciences and LIKES -
Research Center for Sport and Health Sciences.
The publication series is called LIKES - Research Reports for
Sport and Health (the latest publication list available). Staff
Changes
LIKES information specialist Outi Merilainen has moved to a new
job. She is now an information specialist in the Finnish Research
and Development Center for Welfare and Health in Helsinki. She will
still remain as a personal member of IASI and it is hoped that she
will be in Paris at the IASI Congress reporting of her study
"Compatibility of the Finnish Sport Thesaurus with the Canadian
Sport Thesaurus with special reference to descriptor
equivalence".
The chief librarian of the Jyvaskyla University Library Ms. Oili
Kokkonen has retired this summer. Her successor is Mr. Kai
Ekholm.
Internet
The address of the WWW-page of the LIKES-Information Service is:
http://www.jyu.fi/-kirj asto/tieteenalat/Iiik/likes.html
Teaching and advising researchers, teachers and students of the
Jyvaskyla University and LIKES to use Internet for retrieving
information about their own branch of science is now an everyday
activity particularly as the technological infrastructure improves.
The University of Jyvaskyla computer network has been widened (ATM
super highway), and new high-tech computers have been provided for
staff and students.
The WWW pages of the Jyvaskyla University Library have been
developed since 1995. Most of the pages have been translated into
English and the amount of both national as well as international
links relevant to sports scientists have been increased http://www.Jyu.fi/~/library/
In cooperation with five Finnish university libraries, among
them Jyvaskyla University Library, a research project called
"Virtual Library" was started in May 1996. This project aims is to
study the usefulness of Internet information resources and an
inventory of information resources available via the Internet will
be made. The project also collects user-friendly links (= "virtual
libraries") in various subject fields on its WWW pages. Jyvaskyla
University Library examines the resources of sport sciences,
psychology and education.
The address of the WWW-page of sport sciences is www.jyu.fi/~/library/virtuaalikirjasto/Iiikunta
The Virtual Library pages are only in Finnish.
The Finnish Sport Thesaurus
The 2nd revised edition of the Finnish Sport Thesaurus has now
been published.
Phone Number Changes
All district codes of Finnish telephones will be changed soon.
From October 12, 1996 on the new telephone and fax numbers are:
LIKES-Information Service: tel. +358 14 603 390 (Anitta Palvimaki),
fax +351 14 603 371 Jyvaskyla University Library: tel. +358 14 603
391 (Mira Laitinen), fax +358 14 603371.
Cooperation in the Nordic Region
The calendar of NORSIB (Cooperative Body for Sport Information
in Nordic Countries) will not be published any more. Instead a
NORSIB homepage has been established on the Internet. The Jyvaskyla
University Library is in charge of the project and the NORSIB
homepage has been attached into its WWW-document. The NORSIB pages
are available in Swedish and English http://www.jyu.fi/~/-kirjasto/norsib
The latest update (December 1996) of the SPORTDiscus CD-ROM was
shipped in late January from Silver Platter. With this update, the
database now contains more than 400,000 references. Also on this
update is a full reload of the HERACLES database which now contains
more than 66,400 references.
A free listing of Periodicals Indexed for SPORTDiscus is now
available and can be obtained by contacting Linda Wheeler lwheeler@sirc.ca.Please include your
full mailing address in your e-mail address.
Please note that SIRC's ARIEL address for electronic inter
library loans has been changed to 207.216.36.15. You can also use:
ariel.sirc.ca
The 6th conference of the North American Sport Library Network
will be held at the Los Angeles Amateur Athletic Foundation from
24-25 October 1997.
BELARUS CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF SPORT
Mr Vladimir Soroko Director of the Library of the Republican
Scientific and Methodical Library for Physical Culture reports that
in December 1996 a scientific and practical conference was held in
Minsk Belarus to examine the problems of top sport and sports
reserve training in Belarus. The conference was organised by the
Ministry of Sport and Tourism, Scientific and Research Institute of
Physical Culture and Sports and the Academy for Physical Education
and Sport.
Charles Durand IASI member from South Africa has provided the
following information on Events Calendar, whose services may be of
use to the members of IASI.
Events Calendar is a sport information bureau based in
Johannesburg South Africa, and forms part of the SSI group of
companies which include sport sponsorship management and marketing,
event management, and design and production company. It was formed
in 1992 to provide sporting event information to the media.
The operation can be divided into two parts:
1. Maintaining various databases on sponsors and sponsorships,
sporting organisations, both governmental and private, sporting
events, and facilities.
2. Doing research projects for clients according to specific
briefs. This would typically include facts and figures on sport
structures, sponsorships, and player and spectators demographics
and numbers.
We have designed a very user friendly software package called
SportDisk, which is a searchable database of what, where and when
of several thousand sporting events. It is distributed on an annual
subscription basis and costs R2 500-00 (about $500) per annum.
Monthly updates are sent by disk to subscribers. Subscribers
include magazines, video production companies, town councils, hotel
groups and sport product suppliers.
We also have an email service whereby subscribers are alerted to
the latest announcements of new events, sponsorships and other
sport related news by receiving a weekly email newsletter.
Although our focus is South African, we are expecting the
company to show particular growth on the international side as more
businesses become aware of our services and products.
In a nutshell, should anyone require information on the
structure of the competitions of any sport in South Africa, as well
as of sponsorship and administrative matters, we will be able to
supply information.
- Charl Durand
- Events Calendar SA
- Sport information suppliers
- Johannesburg South Africa
- Telephone 27-11-616-6225
- Fax 27-11-622-4676
From the beginning of the 1980's, China commenced its patent
system of which sport inventions are an important part and a
database for sports patents has since been established.
The China Sports Patent Database now contains over 5,500 sports
patents for which patent protection has been applied for in the
China Patent Bureau since 1985. The patents relate to sport
uniforms, sports facilities, sports equipment and so on. Patent
information recorded in this database includes filing data, patent
agents, inventors, applicants, dates of delegate, disclosure and
application number, etc.
The database was set up on software CDS/ISIS which is easy to
use and enables us to retrieve whatever patents we are interested
in with abstracts available.
The staff are now giving full play of their wisdom and technical
skills to make the database a very quick and convenient retrieval
system. This data base has given vitality to the promotion of sport
patent in China. For further information, please contact:
Mr. Zhang Zhongyou, Tel:86-10-67122162
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