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UTS:LIBRARYWWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU
The Olympic and Event Resource Project
Jackie Edwards
UTS Library
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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
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Helen Brownlee, AOC and Rob Lynch, Dean of
Business Faculty, UTS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Events
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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
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Supporting fellowships
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Natalie Essig: Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Web links
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Web links
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Launch of the Australian Centre for Event Management online community
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Australian Centre for Event Management
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developing a research community
email alerts, RSS feeds and updates
discreet collection from the Library catalogue and web pages
recent submissions available easily
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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
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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
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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
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Future
audio and videostreaming live conferencing developing the thesis and conference materials
collection corporate sponsorship
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Issues
copyright – ensuring items may be kept sustainability – ensuring currency and relevance in
the collection archiving materials marketing our community
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Other online resources
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Tourism Research Australia
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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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