NALINE Activites
Joint Conference, IASMHF/NASLIN, Lake Placid, NY
October 27-30, 1999
The Planning Committees for the IASMHF/NASLIN joint conference
are buzzing with ideas for the program and the social activities
in Lake Placid. Joint sessions will be held on Thursday and
Friday morning and include presentations on automation of
collections, conservation, collection appraisal among other
topics. Friday afternoon is reserved for tours of the Lake
Placid sports facilities and musuem. Saturday's sessions will
focus on technological innovations and problems including
listservs (operation), website issues (images, changes in
technology, upkeep), archives and presentations from outstanding
sports centers.
Accommodation/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 at $79 per night.
Program/Registration
The program should be finalized by April/May with the mailing
of the conference information by late summer. We will also
send an email registration/program to NASLIN members. Early
registration is $150 (late summer deadline) and includes
many meals and banquet. The late registration fee is $175.
Do mark your calendars and make preliminary plans. Lake
Placid organizers have requested an especially beautiful
fall for 1999, so we hope to see you there.
Sport Information Resource Centre
Implementation of SIRC's new computer system, Cuadra STAR,
is coming along very well with SIRC staff working very hard
to implement each module. A new Coding Manual is in the
final editing process and soon farflung indexers will have
a guide to the field tags which will replace the numerical
ones which are formerly used.
In the fall a new librarian, Paula Van Steen, joined SIRC
and she will be indexing the monographic material for the
SPORTDiscus database.
SPORTDiscus Enhancements
With the issuing of the 1999-01 update to the database,
6,000 of SIRC's serial holdings records will be added. These
represent the active serials which are indexed for the database
and those which have ceased publication. Staff is working
with the two major vendors, SilverPlatter and Ovid to reload
the SPORTDiscus database. This reload will bring new fields
(some were mentioned in Nasline #12). One other new field
added to the SIRC serial-article and book analytic record
is the total number of pages for each article or chapter
(Field tag name is: JPTOT and BATPG for the serial-article
and book-analytic tags, respectively)
Other additions to the database include a number of Australian
local sport club histories and other materials which the
National Sport Information Centre in Australia added last
summer. This was all part of NSIC's work with the Australian
National Bibliography and other sport sources to ensure
that the SPORTDiscus is more comprehensive when it comes
to all aspects of Australian sport.
The American Alpine Club Library (AAC)
The AAC Library has a new Library Director, Gay Ellen Roesch,
who is busy cataloguing this important collection (10,203
titles) of mountaineering material. Records are reported
to OCLC's WorldCat. Established in 1916, the AAC Library
is the oldest alpine research collection in the US and serves
the AAC as well as the Colorado Mountain Club, plus other
researchers. She estimates that 75-80% of her collection
has a record in WorldCat and the rest is unique or needs
extensive record upgrading. In addition, the AAC Library
has an sizable map, slide and photograph collection. In
her new quarters, a special climate controlled room now
houses the precious rare book collection. Gay can be contacted
at: library@americanalpineclub.org or visit their website
at: www.AmericanAlpineClub.org
where library services and other AAC services are outlined.
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles
Website Update
On March 19-23, 1999, AAFLA will play host to members of
the International Association for Sports Information who
will hold their annual meeting in Los Angeles. IASI members
from sport documentation centres around the world are expected
to attend this meeting in the very pleasant surroundings
of the AAFLA library and museum.
Wayne Wilson, VP Research reports also that the AAFLA
website is implementing
a search engine on the website to make it easier to find
the information one requires.