1. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU The Olympic and Event Resource Project Jackie Edwards UTS Library

2. 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 6 th October 2005 main donations come from the Director Richard Cashman and members of the Australian Olympic committee

3. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Helen Brownlee, AOC and Rob Lynch, Dean of Business Faculty, UTS

4. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU 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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6. 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

7. 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

8. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU The Centre Opened by Helen Brownlee of the AOC and Phil Coles of SOCOG on 6 th October 2005 Located at KC campus Library, meeting such as plasma tv, DVD player

9. 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

10. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Events

11. 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

12. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Supporting fellowships

13. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Natalie Essig: Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Web links

19. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Web links

20. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Launch of the Australian Centre for Event Management online community

21. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Australian Centre for Event Management

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Future audio and videostreaming live conferencing developing the thesis and conference materials collection corporate sponsorship

27. 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

28. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Other online resources

29. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Tourism Research Australia

30. UTS:LIBRARY WWW.LIB.UTS.EDU.AU Australian Bureau of Statistics

31. 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