The Olympic and Event Resource Project Jackie Edwards UTS Library UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Background to the project Australian Centre for Olympic Studies ACOS was officially launched by Helen Brownlee of the AOC and Phil Coles of SOCOG on 6th October 2005 main donations come from the Director Richard Cashman and members of the Australian Olympic committee UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Helen Brownlee, AOC and Rob Lynch, Dean of Business Faculty, UTS Olympic and Event Resource Project our objective is to provide a unique study and research environment for sport and event management in Australia our research profile has been extended to the Asia Pacific region collection includes print, online resources and ephemera such as a Sydney Olympic torch, Melbourne Commonwealth Games banner, posters and other items UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU The collection documents and publications relating to SOCOG post Games Reports from 1908 official result books for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and Paralympics Games bid books both successful and unsuccessful for the Summer and Winter Games UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU The collection 20,000 slides from 1993-2000 7 photograph albums, 200 videos unique material: the post games report from the 1936 Berlin Summer and winter Olympics are one of our prized possessions donations from Australian IOC member, Phil Coles UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU The Centre Opened by Helen Brownlee of the AOC and Phil Coles of SOCOG on 6th October 2005 Located at KC campus Library, meeting such as plasma tv, DVD player UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Activities Ongoing: researching and harvesting relevant documents and data from the internet selecting relevant print resources actively supporting University fellowships by granting both Library and database access to fellows UTS hosted the NSW Olympic Academy in 2006 UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Events UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Two annual fellowships Australian Olympic Research Fellow 2007 -Dr John D. Horne Dr Horne is a Senior Lecturer, Sociology of Sport and Leisure at The University of Edinburgh UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Supporting fellowships UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Natalie Essig: Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Student fellowship 2006 “Sustainability of Olympic Sporting Venues’” Natalie Essig is currently completing her PhD in the Faculty of Architecture at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Natalie’s dissertation will investigate the sustainability of Olympic sports facilities, in collaboration with the National and International Olympic Committee (NOC and IOC) of Germany. The intention of her thesis is to develop an international sustainability standard for Olympic Buildings that incorporates architectural, social, environmental, economic and energy benchmarks UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Australian Centre Event Management ACEM became part of the collection in 2006 began ordering and collecting materials for event management purchasing equipment and display cabinets creating a resource for teaching and research in event management UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU The Library majority of the collection is available for loan to students and researchers this includes access by inter library loan many enquires are received from overseas – Canada, Puerto Rico for example unique and archival items are available for on campus use only UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Facilities the Olympic and Event Studies Room was officially opened by Alex Byrne, University Librarian it may be booked for events, by organisations such as the NSW Sports Academy kitchenette plasma TV and DVD player data projector and adjoining seminar room UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Web links UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Web links UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Launch of the Australian Centre for Event Management online community UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Australian Centre for Event Management UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU developing a research community email alerts, RSS feeds and updates discreet collection from the Library catalogue and web pages recent submissions available easily UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU UTSePress video streaming and audio files where possible unpublished theses and conference materials can be made available abstracts and keywords added to the records web links can be captured rather than relying on current links UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Event management collection social, environmental and economic impacts of events event case studies event bidding planning and marketing of events risk management in events event evaluation events and accessibility UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Maintaining the collection donations from academic and researchers harvesting the web for quality resources engaging students and researchers in the community support from corporate sponsors collaboration with other institutions UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Future audio and videostreaming live conferencing developing the thesis and conference materials collection corporate sponsorship UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Issues copyright – ensuring items may be kept sustainability – ensuring currency and relevance in the collection archiving materials marketing our community UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Other online resources UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Tourism Research Australia UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Australian Bureau of Statistics UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Thanks many thanks to all the staff at KC for making the project possible we have received great support from ACOS, ACEM and UTS and thanks to staff and students at UTS for using the resources UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU