NASLIN Activities
Announcing the Joint Conference of IASMHF and NASLIN
The Executive Boards of the International Association of Sports
Museums and Halls of Fame and the North American Sport Library
Network want to announce a joint conference to be held October
27-30, 1999 in Lake Placid, New York.
The main sessions of the conference will be on October
28-30 with all participants invited to attend all the sessions
on those three days.
The Conference Planning Committee will coordinate the
whole conference and consists of: IASMHF: Diane Imrie, President;
Teri Cober, Assoc. Administrator; Karen Goddy, Board Liaison;
and Jacqueline Baker, Director, Lake Placid Olympic Museum
NASLIN: Gretchen Ghent, Chair; James Gates, National Baseball
Hall of Fame; Henriette Heiny, University of Oregon; Linda
Wheeler, Sport Information Resource Centre Accommodation
and Transportation: Air service has improved to Lake Placid
with US Airways flying into Saranac Lake from the larger
centers of Burlington, VT or Albany, NY and Montreal. The
Lake Placid Hilton is the conference hotel and rooms have
been reserved for conference participants.
Further information about the conference will be forthcoming
in late fall. The Conference Planning Committee would like
to know if enough rooms have been set aside and we ask that
you please send a short email message if there is a likelihood
that you will be able to attend. Send the message to Gretchen
Ghent.
Distribution of the Nasline Online
As reported in February 1998 issue of Nasline, the paper
edition of our newsletter has been discontinued in favor
of an online version. In order to assure a wider distribution,
a survey was conducted to seek out the kinesiology/PE/sport
sciences librarians at US/Canadian colleges and universities
where master's and Ph.D. programs are offered in this subject
area. The list of institutions was drawn up utilizing information
in Peterson's Guide to Graduate Studies. Approximately 304
US colleges/universities and 28 Canadian universities were
identified with Master's or Ph.D. programs in sport management,
exercise and human performance, sport sciences or physical
education.
To date 24 academic US librarians are already on the NASLIN
mailing list and 280 US college/university library administrators
have been queried or letters written asking whether there
is a PE/Kinesiology/Human Performance/Sport Sciences librarian.
To date over 100 additional librarians have been identified.
For the Canadian universities, 10 librarians are already
on the NASLIN list and an additional 12 are now on the Naslin
mailing list.
If readers of Nasline know of other individuals from the
academic world or sport organizations who would like to
receive an online copy of the newsletter, please notify
the editor at gghent@ucalgary.ca.
Sport Information Resource Centre
In the past few months there have been many staffing changes
at SIRC. Gilles Chiasson, whose vision and dedication brought
the organization from its infancy in the 1970's to the sport
information powerhouse it is today, has stepped down as
President and is now the Chief Information Officer. His
most challenging task at present is the implementation of
a new inhouse computer system. SIRC will be migrating from
Minisis and implementing a more powerful, inhouse, computer
system called Cuadra STAR. It is expected that the file
conversion will be complete by the end of September or early
October. Debra Gassewitz, who was brought on board last
year as Vice-President has been appointed President of SIRC.
In addition, Jean-Michel Johnson has been named Director
of Reference and Indexing, upon the resignation of Marion
Fournier who contributed 15 devoted years at SIRC.
The implementation of Cuadra STAR will give SIRC the capacity
to fulfil their goals of furnishing users with many enhanced
services reflective of state-of-the-art computer-based era.
Cuadra Associates in Los Angeles markets STAR for institutions
requiring multi-user, multi-purpose software to manage information
collections of all types. Cuadra Associates already provides
services to specialized libraries, museums and archives
including LC's Congressional Research Service, National
Archives and Records Administration and ERIC (for further
information see their website, www.cuadra.com)
Included in the SIRC package slated for implementation
or enhancement in October is SIRCDetective.
SIRC will be making SPORTDiscus available for use by subscribers
via the internet. For a long time there have been individuals
and small organizations who do not have convenient access
to the database as does the university/college or large
organizational subscribers. Through a monthly subscription
fee of $49.95US these monthly subscribers can search the
database to their hearts content. Monthly renewal can be
made any number of times. Payment can be made through checks
or credit card. When the searcher goes to SIRC's SPORTquest
website and clicks on SIRCDetective, the researcher is taken
to the OVID system, where the database can be utilized on
the OVID web-based server.
SPORTUpdate
In the past an individual researcher could lodge custom-made
search profile with a vendor (e.g.BRS, a now defunct vendor)
in order to have delivery of those citations which meet
the search profile specifications. With the SPORT Update
service, patrons can establish a search profile which reflects
the individual research subject, adjust it once, and have
the monthly citations delivered via paper or email. This
service will cost $99US/year.
Fulltext Journals
If you have surfed the SIRC website recently www.sportquest.com
you will note that a new journal has been announced; Journal
of Excellence (2 issues per year), edited by Terry Orlick.
Do note the cost of the subscription both in fulltext and
paper format ($34.95US and $50US respectively). In fact,
the database indexers have now begun to index other online,
fulltext journal articles and it is expected that in the
Oct. 98 database update, you will see the articles which
are published in the Journal of Excellence in the SPORTDiscus
database.
Jean Michel Johnson reports that they have also just indexed,
Lecturas: educacion fisica y deportes, revista digital,
which is archived on the SPORTQuest site. There are two
new fields added to the document record to accommodate indexing
of articles housed on websites: URLADD - the exact website
URL address is shown in this field (field tag number U560)
and AUEMAL - this field contains the email address of the
author of the article (field tag number U550)
As October is Women's studies month, Jean Michel's indexers
have also indexed the Canadian Association for Women in
Sport and Physical Education's newsletter called Action.
For instance an article entitled: "What one sport is doing
for women" in the Winter 1998 issue, www.sportquest.com/women/481435.html.
The number 481435 is also the Accession Number. This is
a really exciting enhancement to the database.
News of NASLIN Members
Over the past six months we have had contact with a number
of sport information specialists (in addition to the kinesiology/sport
sciences university/college librarians) and want to welcome
everyone to NASLIN. Below are some additional members: Rafael
Lind, Director, Inst. for Sport Development, Puerto Rico
Dept of Sports and Recreation has re-established contact.
He reports that the Government of Puerto Rico has implemented
a new communication network, thus he was incommunicado for
a long time. Note his new email address ralind@prtc.net.
He can still be reached by snail mail at:
PO Box 3207,
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902
Tel: 809-721-2739 FAX: 809-724-4224
We also welcome Tanya C. Gray, Coordinator, Media Assets,
United States Golf Association. She can be reached at:
Golf House,
PO Box 708, Liberty Corner Rd.,
Far Hills, NJ 07931-0708,
Tel: 908-781-1053 FAX: 908-234-1472
tgray@usga.org
Doug Stark, the new archivist/librarian at the Naismith
Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA is busy
assisting in the planning for a new Hall of Fame, working
on organizing the NBHF archives/library and answering the
many reference questions posed to him by researchers. He
mentioned that the collection is open to researchers, but
by appointment only. NMBHF offers reproduction services
for the photographic, film and video collections. The "Hoop
Hall" recently unveiled a special exhibit of women's professional
basketball. Doug does not have an email address as yet (he'll
have one when the new building is built - hopefully by fall
of 2000), but he can be reached in the traditional way at:
PO Box 179,
Springfield, MA
01101-0179
Tel: 413-781-6500 Ext 112
Henriette Heiny, Director of the International Institute
for Sport and Human Performance and Microform Publications
at the University of Oregon reports that a new librarian
is on board who will be cataloguing the theses for the Microform
Publications, be involved in collection development and
see to the acquisition of theses for the project. Anne Miller
was most recently employed at the library of the Bastyr
University in Seattle. Anne can be reached via email at
micrpubs@oregon.uoregon.edu
or by telephone at 541-346-0932
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles
Website Update
AAFLA is continuing on its way to provide sport researchers
with a plethora of services and since our last newsletter
issue, the Library's catalogue is available for searching
on their website www.aafla.org.
The search engine allows author/title/subject searching.
Do note, however, when using LC subject headings to put
two dashes between the subject words (e.g. baseball -- history).
Other exciting news from Wayne Wilson is that the International
Olympic Committee has given AAFLA permission to convert
100 years (1894-1994) of the Olympic Review to digital format
for publication on the AAFLA website. Both the French and
English editions will be scanned and made available in PDF
format.
As mentioned earlier, the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games
Official Reports are available at the AAFLA website, but
now 1896 is available as is St. Moritz 1928 and Lake Placid
1932. The Official Report for Paris 1924 should be available
by the end of October.
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Researchers who have recently gone to the NBHFM website
have noticed the archival information and other baseball
research which is available. James Gates, Librarian at the
NBHFM, is busy implementing a new library system, INNOPAC,
contracted through Innovative Interfaces. He and his staff
are also in the process of raising funds for the required
hardware and software so that the catalogue will eventually
be accessible via the internet.
The Sporting News Library
Jim Meier, librarian at The Sporting News is busy reconverting
and reorganizing the book collection utilizing the records
in OCLC's WorldCat database. He has found matches to 6,000
books and has added The Sporting News (non-circulating)
to the records already in WorldCat. There are still over
500 books that OCLC does not have and he will have to do
original cataloguing for these in the future. The next step
though, is networking their database to the many editors
and sportswriters at The Sporting News. This latter activity
is planned for 1999.
National College Athletic Association Update
As reported earlier, NCAA headquarters will be making a
move to Indianapolis, Indiana in summer 1999 into a renovated
floor mill, built in 1872 and which is in the Indiana Register
of Historic Places. Mary Johnston, Librarian, also mentioned
that the library and archives will undergo many changes
as they are in the midst of selecting a computer system
for all NCAA records. First priority is to scan and index
all agendas, supplements and minutes of NCAA committee meetings
from 1950's forward and then to ensure storage and retrieval
of all electronic, paper, film and tape records for, initially,
NCAA staff and members, and, eventually, to the public.
Visit their website for major publications available recently
www.ncaa.org. Other publications
available free of charge are:
- Characteristics of NCAA Division I recruits in the 1994-
1995 Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse, 1997, 25p. (NCAA
research report; 96-03).
- Drug-testing program, 1997-98. 1997 12p.
- Race demographics of NCAA member institutions' athletics
personel. 1998, 111p. (chiefly tables)