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The Olympic and Event Resource Project

Jackie Edwards

UTS Library


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


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


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


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


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


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


Events


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


Supporting fellowships


Natalie Essig: Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany


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


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


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


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


Web links


Launch of the Australian Centre for Event Management online community


Australian Centre for Event Management


developing a research community

email alerts, RSS feeds and updates

discreet collection from the Library catalogue and web pages

recent submissions available easily


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


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


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


Future

audio and videostreaming live conferencing developing the thesis and conference materials

collection corporate sponsorship


Issues

copyright – ensuring items may be kept sustainability – ensuring currency and relevance in

the collection archiving materials marketing our community


Other online resources


Tourism Research Australia


Australian Bureau of Statistics


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

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Documents

uts slide

fellows uts

kc campus library

university of edinburgh

olympic buildings

australian olympic committee

dvd player slide

sydney olympic torch