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North American Sport Library Network (NASLIN) NASLINE: Newsletter of the North American Sport Library Network is published 2 times per year and is edited by Gretchen Ghent, Librarian Emeritus (Chair, North American Sport Library Network) University of Calgary Library, 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 Tel: 403-220-6097 FAX: 403-282-6837 E-Mail: gghent@ucalgary.ca
1. NEWS FROM SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS 1.1. NORTH AMERICAN SPORT LIBRARY NETWORK: The 6th Conference of NASLIN The attractive facilities of the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles and marvelous Southern California weather provided a splendid atmosphere for the assembled conference participants at the 6th Conference of NASLIN. The conference talks focused on technological innovations, services on the Internet and sport-related research. The program also included a tour of the Paul Ziffren Sports Resource Center (AAFLA library) and the Sports Department of the Los Angeles Public Library. Many thanks to the conference organizers at AAFLA, Wayne Wilson, Bonita Carter, Shirley Ito, Michael Salmon and Ed Derse plus most importantly, our speakers Dr. Robert Edelman (UCLA), Debra Hannah (Photo Researcher), Matthew Schoen (Allsport Photography USA), Karen Goddy (AAFLA), Richard Lipsey (SGRnet), Jim Meier (The Sporting News), Steve Gietschier (The Sporting News), Graham Smith (Sportcal, UK), Nancy Banks (SIRC), Gilles Chiasson (SIRC), Dr. Donald Guthrie (UCLA) and David Wallechinsky (Olympic Author). Notes from the 6th Conference For the first time the Notes from the 6th Conference have been compiled and are available on the NASLIN website which is maintained by the Sport Information Resource Centre (http://www.sirc.ca/naslin.html). View the site to read these proceedings from our conference. Contact addresses for the speakers are included along with other pertinent details in order that readers may follow up on particular topics or technological initiatives. NASLIN Steering Committee 1997-1999 Two founding members of NASLIN, Wayne Wilson, AAFLA and Cindy Slater, USOC Library, resigned from the NASLIN Steering Committee. They will be missed by all for they contributed thoughtful leadership and fellowship over the past 8 years. The Steering Committee re-elected Gretchen Ghent as Chair and elected three new Steering Committee members (indicated by *). The following persons constitute the 1997-1999 Steering Committee:
NASLINE Is Published in an Online Version Only At the Steering Committe meeting held in Los Angeles, Oct. 24, 1997, it was agreed that NASLINE be published in an online version only and archived on the Sport Information Resource Centre website: http://www.sportquest.com/naslin/(note: the change in URL). This website now has fulltext of Issues no. 5, May 1995 to date.
1.2 SPORT INFORMATION RESOURCE CENTRE (SIRC) SIRC staff have been working hard on many enhancements to their products and marketing over the past 6 months. Listed below are a few of the initiatives: SPORTQuest Update As readers know, SPORTQuest is the SIRC website which organizes over 14,000 sport-related websites the world over (www.sportquest.com). Recently over 200 free references were mounted on the site intended for use by busy school teachers. Recognizing that teachers have little preparation time, these document records describe physical education programs and are intended to assist teachers in creating various strategies to help children develop motor skills, enchance attitudes of self confidence, team building and cooperation, promote safety and injury prevention and contribute to the life skills required to succeed in today's fast paced environment. Articles are from well known periodicals, e.g. Journal of Physical Education , Recreation and Dance, Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, and essays from collected works. In addition, the SPORTQuest site has developed a special section on the Winter Olympic Games, Nagano 1998. SPORTDiscus Updates and Database Enrichment Sport information specialists and researchers will be happy to know that the January 1998 update of SPORTDiscus (which is expected by mid February), will now include over 13,000 sport-related website URL records. These URLS have also been indexed thus allowing additional access points to the information. Included also in the January update are additional sport databases including: a) The Olympic Museum database of monographic and serial records of over 11,000 records; b) the Atlantis database of Spanish language periodical articles, monographs etc. c) an update of the Heracles, the French language sport database, to over 71,000 records. With this update the SPORTDiscus database will contain over 500,000 records. Congratulations to the hard working SIRC staff in reaching this benchmark in the year of their 25th anniversary!
1.3 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EHEPSW LIBRARY Laura Blomquist, a long-time NASLIN member, reports that the Ohio State University Libraries has amalgamated a number of libraries (including the physical education subjects) into the Education, Human Ecology, Psychology and Social Work Library. Laura has been appointed head of EHEPSW, and some of her sport/PE collection responsibilities have been assigned to Gerry Greenberg. Gerry is a longtime distance runner (now recreational jogger) and has been a reference librarian in the former OSU Undergraduate Library for the past 11 years. Welcome to NASLIN, Gerry! Address: EHEPSW Library, Ohio State University, 110 Sullivant Hall, 1813 North High St. Columbus, OH 614-292-8602. Tel: 614-292-2075 Email: greenberg.3@osu.edu.
1.4 AMATEUR ATHLETIC FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES WEBSITE UPDATE As promised to the 6th NASLIN conference participants, AAFLA has mounted the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games Official Report on their website www.aafla.org). This report is in a Portable Document Format (PDF) and in order to view the document, one must have Adobe Acrobat Reader software on your computer. This software is free of charge and can be downloaded from Adobe's website: (www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat). This searchable Official Report file is quite large (86mb) and has complete visual integrity. Glyphica is the company which scanned the the 1932 Official Report. Glyphica's address is: 2234 Old Middlefield Way, Suite E, Mountain View, California 94043. Tel: 650-428-1800, FAX: 650-428-1820, Website: www.glyphica.com Email: info@glyphica.com See further details and instructions on AAFLA's website on how to view and use this fulltext document. Also look for the 1984 Los Angeles Official Report in the next few weeks along with access to their inhouse, online catalogue.
1.5 GLEANINGS FROM DECEMBER IASI NEWSLETTER A number of newsy items appeared in the International Association for Sports Information Newsletter: Sports Council Name Change The Sports Council in London is now called the English Sports Council. They now have a website (www.english.sports.gov.uk). Look for monthly updates to this website to include publications, statistics and information on Council programs. Hillary Commission, New Zealand Robyn White reports that the Hillary Commission's website has many additional items including sports participation statistics, information on Green Prescriptions, New Zealand's new physical activity program, and information on other new publications. Website address: www.hillarysport.org.nz. Publications can be ordered from: info@hilarysport.org.nz.
1.6 CANADIAN OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION LIBRARY AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY Irena Murray, Head of the McGill University McLennan Library's Rare Book Collection, reports that the Canadian Olympic Association's Olympic collection is available for use in the newly renovated Rare Books room. Reference service will be available on a limited basis as staffing levels do not permit the more specialized reference service available in the previous location at Olympic House. However, researchers are welcome to utilize the collection in situ and are asked to contact staff when they expect to make an extended use of the collection. In February the bibliographic records for the collection should be up on their website. Hours of Access: Mon-Fri 9-5, Reference Telephone number: 514-398-4711. Address: 4th Floor, McLennan Library, McGill University, 3458 McTavish St, Montreal, PQ H3A 1Y1
1.7 NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION UPDATE A recent communication with the Library at the NCAA elicited the news of a new librarian, Mary Johnston, who has been with the NCAA as a software developer since 1991. Mary reports that the NCAA website (www.ncaa.org) has grown tremendously since it was introduced in spring 1996. This website contains descriptions of NCAA rule books, statistical and instructional manuals, record books, videocassettes and other publications. Ordering is not yet available through the site, but purchases can be made by mail, phone or fax using the order forms provided on each page. In addition to the Sports Library, the NCAA News, statistics, news releases, championships information, membership information, one has the ability to email the NCAA staff. Requests requiring research within the NCAA archives are forwarded to Mary (she can be reached also at: mjohnston@ncaa.org). Other news from the NCAA is the NCAA Joint Policy Board has decided to move NCAA headquarters to Indianapolis. The move is scheduled in the summer of 1998. Indianapolis portrays itself as the "amateur sports capital of America" and put together an impressive bid that will significantly reduce NCAA operating expenses.
1.8 UNITED KINGDOM INSTITUTE OF SPORT, SHEFFIELD Alan Brailey, spokesperson for the consortia, and Denise Harrison, Faculty Librarian, Education and Leisure Management at the University of Sheffield report the exciting news that a consortium of Sheffield institutions won the national lottery bid to establish a national Institute for Sport. The consortium partners include Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Sheffield, Sheffield City Council and the Hospital Trusts. The Institute will be funded mainly by the National Lottery but contributions will come from other sources including the private sector. Goals of this cooperative project include: a) setting standards and giving a new priority for sport; b) ensuring the establishment of facilities and support services needed by elite athletes; c) providing up-to-date information, coaching expertise, training techniques for athletes. The overall goal is to produce medal-winning elite athletes. This area already has a number of key facilities in place, e.g. the Don Valley Stadium, which was built for the World Student Games of 1991, with other facilities to be incorporated or built in the next few years. Included in the bid is provisional costing for a state of the art library/information service. It was proposed that this would be a stand-alone service although it would have organisational links to the two universities and the Sports Library, which was set up for the World Student Games and is now housed in the Sheffield City Libraries. The local Sports Health and Leisure Group will be discussing information provision at its future meetings.
1.9 MICROFORM PUBLICATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Henriette Heiny, Director, Microform Publications, mentioned that a new computer billing and invoice software system is being installed and asks library clients who encounter problems or have questions to contact her new Coordinator, Dana Gorman, Tel: 541-346-4117.
1.10 UNITED STATES OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION INFORMATION SERVICES Cindy Slater, Library Manager, USOC, related that the USOC will maintain an up-to-the-minute section on their website called Live from Nagano which will include news reports and photographs from Nagano, Japan, site of the February 1998 Winter Olympic Games. USOC's website address: www.olympic-usa.org.
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