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IASI Newsletter
No. 9, August 1997
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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 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
- E-mail: nclarke@ausport.gov.au
- Fax: (+61) 2 62141681
The Secretary is pleased to report that IASI now has 136 members
in 67 countries compared to 124 members in 61 countries in 1996.
This growth in membership was stimulated largely by the IASI
Congress and proves that there are many individuals and
organisations who are keen to be involved in sport information
activities.
The challenge for IASI is to keep serving its members and to
undertake intiatives to further develop sport information resources
and services.
If you ever wanted to know what the future of sport information
will be like then you should have been in Paris from 10-12 June
1997 . Because it was here at the 10th IASI Congress that over 200
people from all parts of the world met to discuss this very
topic.
The 10th Scientific Congress of IASI was held at the magnificant
headquarters of the French Olympic Committee and was organised by
Alain Poncet and his professional team from numerous departments of
INSEP.
During the 3 day Congress 79 full conference papers and poster
sessions were presented.
It is not possible to summarise all of the papers of the
Congress however it would be fair to say that the Congress raised
some key issues within each of the Congress themes. Many of these
issues focussed on technology and the Internet in particular; on
issues related to globalisation and the preservation of information
in various languages and from particular geographic areas; on
equity of access to information and perhaps the most challenging
issue for IASI members was to consider what the future role of the
sport information professional might be.
Discussion on this issue was stimulated by the inaugural debate
where speakers from outside of IASI, some of whom were the
affiliates and clients of IASI put forward their views on the
future of sport information. Discussion on the topic was also
stimulated by the roundtable session where the IASI Vice Presidents
gave their view of the future of sport information along with
experts from sports journalism and sports technology.
In looking at the papers of the Congress I think it is only
possible to agree with a statement made by Jose Antonio Aquesolo in
his paper on the future role of the sport documentalist which in
summary said that sport documentalists will be around for a long
time as long as they keep adapting, specialising and enlarging
their knowledge in order to fit in with a new era and with new
working systems and methods.
All in all the Congress was a rewarding and stimulating
experience and thanks must once again go to French Ministry of
Youth and Sports, Sportdoc, INSEP and in particular the Executive
Director Mr Michel Cheveau who gave his support to the Congress and
the IASI meetings
Thanks must also go to the French Olympic Committee and
particularly to Alain Poncet and Miriam Elle who made the congress
a wonderful success.
To purchase copies of the Proceedings of the 10th IASI
Scientific Congress send 350 French Francs (prepayment required)
to:
- Monsieur l agent comptable del INSEP
- INSEP Service de Documentation
- 11, avenue du Tremblay
- 75012 Paris, France
- Tel: 33 01 41 74 07
- Fax: 33 01 48 08 19 60
Payment can be made by:
Bank Cheque or By Postal Order CCPno.9 097 65 F Paris or By Bank
Transfer to Tresor Public Bank Code 30081 Office Code 75000 Account
Number 00003005985 Cle RIB 35
The IASI meetings and General Assembly in Paris resulted in IASI
s four year Working Program being established which consists of the
key objectives for IASI and lays down the specific priorities of
tasks to be completed.
The four key objectives for IASI for the next 4 years are:
- To service the membership of IASI through an efficiently
administered association which provides regular communication and
professional development opportunities for members.
- To encourage and support national, regional and international
initiatives in sport information development and to provide
guidance and assistance in this development.
- To apply new technology for the effective management of sport
information and to facilitate the sharing of sport information in
all parts of the world.
- To develop strategic alliances with other organisations
operating in the field of sport and physical activity and to
promote an awareness of the activities of IASI to these
organisations.
Under these objectives members prioritised the tasks to be
completed and these tasks were assigned to specific members or to
Ad Hoc Working Groups for completion. In some cases these tasks
were allocated a budget.
It is expected that in the future reports will be given to the
annual meeting on progress with these tasks so that IASI will have
a clear idea of what is being achieved in relation to its
objectives.
A great deal of effort was put into the development of the
Working Program prior to the Paris meeting and during the meeting
which has resulted in a very clear Working Program. This Working
Program will be published as part of the Minutes of the Paris
meetings and members should note the tasks they are respoonsible
for.
The IASI meetings in Paris and the General Assembly was the
occasion of the IASI elections.
During these elections the IASI President and Vice Presidents
and the Executive Committee of 18 members were elected.
The election process involved the counting of postal votes, the
acceptance of proxy votes and direct secret ballot voting by
members present in Paris. The elections were presided over by
Gilles Chiasson who was elected Chair of the elections and a team
of scrutineers assisted in counting the votes.
The thanks of the Association should go to all those who
assisted in the elections, to Albert Remans for so ably preparing
the election papers and managing the postal voting procedure and to
the members of IASI who were present at the elections and who
showed so much patience in waiting for the election results. In the
future IASI will consider timetabling the conduct of the election
so that it does not disrupt the proceedings of the meetings.which
invariably run to a tight timeframe.
THE ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE IASI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1997-2001
are:
- IASI President
- Mrs Nerida Clarke, Australia
- IASI VICE PRESIDENT AFRICA
- Mr Laurie Tempelhoff, South Africa
- IASI VICE PRESIDENT OCEANIA
- Jill Haynes, Australia
- IASI VICE PRESIDENT ASIA
- Mr Zhao Yaping, China
- IASI VICE PRESIDENT NORTH AMERICA
- Mrs Gretchen Ghent, Canada
- IASI VICE PRESIDENT EUROPE
- Mr Alain Poncet, France
- IASI VICE PRESIDENT LATIN AMERICA
- Mrs Esperanza Bobes Ruiz, Cuba
- MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
- Mr Ma Tie China
- Mr Albert Remans, Belgium (Also Secretary Treasurer of
IASI)
- Mr Andrei Teodorescu Romania
- Mrs Ayala Maharik Israel
- Mr Bruno Rossi-Mori Italy
- Mrs Anita Palvimaki Finland
- Mr Maurizio Bruni Italy
- Mrs Anne-Mette Vibe Norway
- Mrs Beatriz Maria Barbera Argentina
- Mr Gilles Chiasson Canada
- Mr Jose Antonio Aquesolo Vegas Spain
- Mrs Euginia Salazar Roderiguez Chile
- Mrs Erika Schwarz Spain
- Mrs Sally Hall United Kingdom
- Mr Benoit de Chassey Switzerland
- Mr Al Ismail Abdel Saudi Arabia
- Mr Olavo Malveiro Portugal
- Ms Cindy Slater USA
August 2 1997 was a significant day for sport in the Oceania
Region as it was the day of the official launch of the Oceania
Regional Sport Information Centre (OSIC).
The Centre to be located within the Library of the University of
the South Pacific in Suva Fiji is a partnership between the Oceania
National Olympic Committees, the University of the South Pacific
and the Australian Sports Commission with additional support for
the project being provided by UNESCO. IASI has supported the
project as a regional initiative which was developed by the IASI
Oceania Vice President over a number of years. ICSSPE has also lent
its support to the project with an initial grant to conduct a
workshop in Fiji to help set the broad operating framework for the
Centre.
The Oceania Centre will be proactively disseminating information
to the countries of the Region and will ensure that information on
sport in the Oceania is documented for inclusion on the SPORT/IASI
data base.
The Centre will also assist in the development of national sport
information centres in the countries of the Region as required.
Mr Albert Miller of the University of the South Pacific who has
a great deal of experience in sport in the Pacific Region has been
appointed to the position of Manger of the Centre and will take up
the position in early September.
At the opening of the Centre a message was read from the
President of the IOC Mr Juan Antonio Samaranch which said:
On behalf of the Olympic Movement, I would like to take this
opportunity to congratulate the Oceania National Olympic Committees
on the occasion of the inauguration of the ONOC Sports Information
Centre at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. This new
centre linking the NOCs of the region and opening new channels of
exchange between them and the rest of the sports world promises to
become a major resource for athletes and scholars alike.
The establishment of the centre is a reflection of ONOC s
dedication to the dissemination of the Olympic ideal and yet
another example of regional efforts to contribute to Olympic
education in Oceania.
I therefore convey my best wishes to everyone who contributed to
the creation of this centre,and to its new staff and users, for
continued success in their endeavours to promote Olympic
education.`
Nerida Clarke addressed the opening ceremony on behalf of the
Australian Sports Commission and IASI, Dr Robin Mitchell of ONOC
presented an address as did Professor Chandra the Deputy Vi ce
Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific. The opening
ceremony was held within the USP Library which had a large display
of sporting material and during the ceremony athletes who will
compete at the South Pacific Min Games lit the Olympic flame as a
symbol to open the Centre.
The opening ceremony was chaired by Ms Esther Williams the USP
Librarian. The staff of USP Library did an excellent job in
organising the opening which received considerable print and
electronic media coverage with a large supplement in the Fiji
newspapers.
This project is an excellent example of regional cooperation and
could be a model for the development of other regional sport
information centres.
A detailed paper on the development of the Centre and the
operational framework for the Centre was presented by Nerida Clarke
to the IASI Congress. The full text of this paper is contained in
the Proceedings of the IASI Congress.
From all reports the World Police/Fire Games were a great
success n Calgary, financially, socially but with the emphasis on
fitness, friendly competition and fun. With a cadre of
6,000volunteers the competitions were held in sites all over he
city. No admission charges were levied at any of the competition
sites.
One of the most popular competitions was the PoliceService Dogs,
who demonstrated their talents at apprehending criminals . In
addition to the more serious sports of volleyball, softball and
track and field there were many competitors in the fun games of
darts, horseshoes, wrist wrestling and rodeo. The Organizing
Committee published a souvenir program and had an official
photographer take pictures at all the competition sites.
Pictures can be purchased from:
Banff Laser Graphics
238 11th Ave. SE, Calgary, Alberta T2GOX8. CANADA
Tel: 403-261-3026.
The 1999 World Police/Fire Games will be held in Stockholm in
Sweden.
At the IASI meetings at INSEP in Paris, one of the Working
Program priorities was a union list of sports serials. Other online
service providers also see a need for this.
Recently there has been an addition to OCLC's (Online Computer
Library Center in Dublin, Ohio) FirstSearch services where phase
one of the OCLC Union Lists of Periodicals database was added in
mid July. Subscribers to FirstSearch services can now search this
union list of periodicals by name of the journal, location (e.g.
Los Angeles or CA meaning all of California)and find the exact
holdings (this is called: Local Data Records) for libraries in that
city.
In this first phase are all the libraries which belong to
consortia. Phase two and three will broaden the access points to
inlude ISSN, other access points and the other library's Local Data
records. Up to this point, a searcher was presented with a list of
libraries who reported holding a particular journal, but the
detailed holdings were not available to be viewed.
- Sport Information Resource Centre:
- A new Vice President for Marketing and Strategic Planning, has
joined SIRC in mid-June of this year. Debra Gassewitz, formerly
Manager of the international sales team at Corel Corporation, (a
very successful Canadian graphics software company) will put her
considerable experience to work developing marketing plans and
strategies for SIRC. She developed numerous product launches,
business and production marketing strategies for Corel. She is also
a professional figure skating coach. Welcome, Debra, to the world
of sport information.
- Greg Blood
- has returned to the positon of document delivery librarian at
the Australian National Sport Information Centre having broadened
his work experiences with a stint in the horticultur al industry
and a 12 month period as the Research Librarian at the Sydney
Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. Greg will no doubt be
renewing his acquaintances with IASI colleagues in all parts of the
world as he arranges the supply of documents and makes
requests.
- Albert Miller
- has been appointed to the position of Manager of the Oceania
Sport Information Centre. Albert will take up the position on 1
September 1997. As Albert begins his work at the Centre he will no
doubt become known to members.
- Albert Remans
- has been appointed to the position of ICSSPE Deputy Secretary
General at the ICSSPE Berlin meeting. This appointment is
recognition of Albert's professional competence and shows the close
working relationship which IASI has with ICSSPE. It doesn t mean
that Albert leaves IASI it ju st means that abusy man is even
busier!!
Jodie Davis of the Australian National Sport Information Centre
is always on the look out for new and interesting Internet sites
and would like to draw members attention to the following
sites:
Basketball Australia Site
URL: www.basketball.net.au
Also worthy of note is the Sports Medicine Australia Site. This
site will be developed urther with information on the Pre-Olympic
Scientific Congress which will be held in Brisbane Australia in the
year 2000 and which will be run by Sports Medicine Australia.
URL: www.ausport.gov.au/sma
The Journal of Nutrition
URL: nutrition.org
Journal of Comparative Physiology
URL: link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00359/index.htm
have recently come online.
European Handball Federation now has a site.
URL: www.eurohandball.com
The AUS Accessibility Standards for webpages may also be useful
to webmasters.These are interesting standards for people to
consider when designing WWW sites as they outline what should be
taken into account for people with disbilities.
URL: www.agd.nsw.gov.au/
standards.html
Another interesting site for sports librarians is this paper on
the Net which reviews (analytically) and details all the current
search engines and indexing agents available to-date on the web -
giving details of each. The paper prepared by the Lund University
in Sweden is entitled - The building and maintenance of robot based
internet search services: A review of current indexing and data
collection methods. It is available at:
www.ub2.lu.se/desire/radar/reports/D3.11
Laurie Tempelhoff
IASI Vice President Africa
In recent months the South African Sports Information Centre has
identified several key issues for urgent attention. These issues
constitute the following:
- The launching of an official South African Sport Site on the
Internet;
- A workshop for African Countries to be held in Pretoria;
- Accessibility to the SISA-SPER bibliographical database.
THE OFFICIAL SOUTH AFRICAN SPORT SITE ON THE
INTERNET
This Internet site was launched in February 1997 and focuses on
a variety of topics including, the infrastructure of sport in South
Africa, the national sports federations, a sports directory, an
events calendar, facilities profiles, details of coaches, etc.. The
address of the site is:
www.sportsa.ca.za
It is planned to broaden out and expand on the site with day to
day sporting happenings in South Africa and to appoint a full time
official to oversee this particular needs on the site.
Further two special databases are to be created, one on talent
identification and the other on high performance.
This workshop which was scheduled for October 1996 has been
postponed to April 1998. The reason for this postponement has been
the restructuring of the sports set up in South Africa and the fact
that the Sports Information Centre now falls directly under the
jurisdiction of the Ministry of Sport. This naturally affects the
projects that the former S.A.
Sports Information and Documentation Centre had planned but
which now need sanctioning and approval once again. In this regard
the matter was raised in February 1997 and the organiser of the
proposed workshop was requested to present his plan of action
together with a budget, to the Ministryof Sport. A major
consideration is still the matter of the Ministry providing
adequate funds to sponsor the visitors in total. Although finality
has not been reached on the funding, it is anticipated that a
limited amount at least, will be approved.
Details about the workshop includes:
- date: April 1998
- venue: CSIR, Pretoria
- format: 3 days
- speakers: information specialists from the CSIR, the University
of South Africa's Archive division and the Secretary General of
IASI
- invited countries: Eleven from the African Continent
- topic: The establishment and management of a national sports
information centre.
During the past months several requests for access to the centre
s SPER bibliographic database (containing 80 % documents of South
African origin) have been received from Australia and Canada.
In order to accede to this request, several options have been
considered. One is to place these documents on a CD Rom which could
then be sold. However, no local company is prepared to provide this
facility unless the database comprises at least 40 000
documents.
At a recent board meeting of the Sport SA Information Centre, it
was resolved that the SPER bibliographic database be attached to
the already existing S.A. Sport database site on the Internet. A
major obstacle at present, is to transfer the SPER database
documents from the antiquated Unix system to a more modernsystem
and this might take some time.
The following guidelines apply for people wishing to make an
application for funds for specific projects from IASI.
General Principles:
- The project must be in accordance with the current aims and
tasks of the IASI.
- Priority will be given to project in the following order: IASI
ad hoc Working Group,International, regional/language, national,
local. Joint projects might be accepted.
- Project proposals must be submitted by members and non-members
must have a member sponsor.
- The project must be feasible, proposals will clearly describe
in detail, the expected outcomes of the project, timetable and
costs.
Process to be followed:
- The Presidium will examine all ptroposals and inform the
Executive Committee during the first session of its annual
meeting
- The Executive Committee will decide on project funding with a
majority vote at its annual meeting
- Written progress reports on projects should be prepared and
presented at each Executive Committee meeting.
The Library of the Stockholm University College of Physical
Education and Sports dates from the days of PH Ling the father of
Swedish gymnastics who started the training of Swedish physical
education teachers in 1813 at the Royal Central Institute of
Gymnastics(GCI). The collection of the Library reflects the history
of gymnastics and sports in Sweden.
The name of the Institute was changed in 1992 to
Indrottshogskolan I Stockholm (Stockholm University College of
Physical Education and Sports). Today the Library holds about
40,000 volumes and subscribes to around 200 periodicals. Holdings
are registered on a local data base and on the Swedish national
data base LIBRIS. In collaboration with the Swedish Sports
Federation a national sports data base is being built in which all
articles in Swedish sports journals are being indexed as well as
research projects and papers concerning sport in a broad sense from
other universities and university colleges in Sweden. The data base
can be searched via the WWW on the Internet at www.svenskidrott.se
The main task of the Library is to serve students, teachers and
researchers. As a special library the Library can also provide
services to other libraries in Sweden and abroad. The staff of the
Library consists of 2 librarians and 2 assistant librarians.
Internationally the Library cooperates with IASI and the Nordic
organisation NORSIB.
The addresss of the Library is:
Indrottshogskolan I Stockholm
Biblioteket
Box 5626
S-114 86 Stockholm Sweden
Phone: +48 8 402 22 32
Fax: +46 8 402 22 81
The 6th North American Sports Library and Information Network
Conference will be held from October 24-25, 1997 in Los Angeles,
California hosted by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los
Angeles
The conference Banquet Speaker is David Wallechinsky, noted
Olympic author (his latest work is The Complete Book of the Summer
Olympics, 1996 ed.) and the Keynote speaker is Dr. Robert Edelman,
noted sports researcher who will give a paper entitled, Eleven
from the Polish Judge: Researching Soviet Sport in Russia and the
USA.
A number of other outstanding sessions are included in a very
full program.
If you have questions regarding the NASLIN conference
contact:
Wayne Wilson, AAFLA
Email: wwilson@mailgate.aafla.com
Tel: 213-730-9696)
or
Bonita Carter
Email: bcarter@mailgate.affla.com
or
Gretchen Ghent
IASI Vice President North America.
At times free text database searching is not a wise way to find
specific information especially when the terms searched are very
common words (e.g. soccer, football). However, this type of
searching is recommended when one is looking for a specific name of
a test for often the abstract will have test names mentioned in
full or abbreviated form (e.g.profile-of-mood-state is a
descriptor, but one can find many more records which have this term
in the Abstract field).
Free text searching may also be a good way to find names of
individuals or other specific terms. In over 900 monographic
records the Abstract field will yield the contents of a book. In
some cases there are too] many names to add to the descriptor
field, but these are listed in the Abstract field, usually in the
full name form. Thus if one searches for a person in the Descriptor
field, e.g. king-b, the searcher should also search for: billie
jean king as a free text term. Tables of Contents are included for
monographic records when the chapter titles are descriptive, thus
giving the searcher more flexibility in finding specific
information. A number of books on sports law have been handled in
this way as are some sport histories and other current monographic
titles. The SPORTDiscus policy is to include full abstracts for
most advanced level materials (only a few publishers will not allow
this) but the Table of Contents is a time saving, alternate way of
adding value and accessibility to other records. To view records
with Tables of Contents, search under: contents in ab and then:
monograph in dt or look at the following excellent examples:
AN403060, AN
404169, AN
343895, AN 404778 or AN 404256 (AN=403060 etc.)
Two leaflets which may be of interest to IASI members are the
Directory of participants in the Cuban Sport Information National
Network Email addresses and the Directory of Email Addresses of
IASI Latin American Country Members.
These leaflets are available from:
CINIID-INDER
via Blanca y Boyeros
Cerro, Ciudad de la Habana
CUBA
Fax 53 7 335310, 409037
Email CINID@CENIAI.CU
The Secretary of IASI has advised that the dates for the 1998
IASI Meeting will be from 31 March to 5 April 1998 at the Hong Kong
Sports Institute as proposed at the 1997 IASI meeting in Paris.
Details of the meeting will be forwarded to all members by the
Secretary.
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