| News | No.37 February 2003 |

IASI's Mission: To develop and promote the value of sport information. IASI Website: http://www.iasi.org/ IASI is a non-profit making organization whose aim is to stimulate, support and develop activities in the field of international documentation and information for physical education and sport. It brings together a worldwide network of scientists, documentalists, librarians, information experts and managers of sports information and documentation centers. We welcome contributions to this newsletter from all countries in all languages. Send information to the IASI Newsletter editor, Ms Gretchen Ghent, Librarian Emeritus, c/o The University of Calgary Law Library, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4. Email: gghent@ucalgary.ca Membership information is found on the IASI website, http://www.iasi.org/ or contact Mr. Jose Aquesolo, IASI Executive Secretary, C/o Andalusian Institute of Sport (IAD), Avda. Sta. Rosa de Lima, 5, E - 29007, Malaga, Spain, Tel: +34 951 04 19 00, Fax: +34 951 04 19 39, Email: jaker@uida.es IASI News Cooperative Projects Between IASI and the IOC In the continuing, co-operative relationship between IASI and IOC, and as an extension of the information supplied in Manual for a Sports information Centre (2000), Alain Poncet met with our partners at IOC headquarters on July 1. In attendance was Mr. Pere Miro Director of Olympic Solidarity and NOC Relations Department, Mr. Michel Filiau, Chief of the Administrative Service of NOC Relations Department, Mrs. Nuria Puig Director of the Olympic Studies Center in the Olympic Museum, Mr. Jerome Poivey assistant Mr. Filiau. Two main topics were discussed. The first topic concerns the World Directory of Sports Information Centres and Experts. This database will be soon available on the NOC Extranet, by a link created from www.directory-iasi.org. In addition an announcement will be made to inform the NOC information centres about the existence of this new product. Included in the announcement will be an encouragement to register their NOC libraries/centres in the World Directory. In that way, we hope to have, in a very short time, a comprehensive database where a specific centre or expertise could be found from any part of the world. The second discussion point concerned the program for developing countries and in particular for Africa. That is a recurrent question we discussed during our last ExCo meeting in Barcelona. Emerging from the meeting was the proposal for the future establishment and support for two main African sports information centres: one to serve the English speaking area; the second for the French speaking area. These centres, which would be supported by an existing NOC, would become the co-operative resource and foundation for sport information for all the NOCs in their respective linguistic area. With this infrastructure support, IASI would provide its expertise in the field of creating and developing a sports information and documentation centre. Ms. Gretchen Ghent University of Calgary Law Library 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary T2N 1N4 CANADA tel. +403 220 6097 fax +403 282 6837 gghent@ucalgary.ca http://www.icsspe.org/portal/texte/area/bulletin/ IASI News