Online Edition Newsletter of the North American Sport Library Network

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Website: http://www.aafla.org/

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   Official Reports for Paris/Chamonix, 1924 and St. Moritz 1928 (both in French)
   
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   Olympic Review (English ed.) is now back to 1980 (AAFLA is working back from 1994)
   
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   ASSH studies in sport history have been added from No1, 1986 – No11, 1999 (Australian Society for Sport History) and the ASSH Bulletins
   
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   Olympic curriculum guide, an updated version of a guide produced by AAFLA a number of years ago.
   

Further Sports Journals to be Added To AAFLA’s Fulltext Research Resources

Daniel Bell, AAFLA’s new Research Director, also mentioned that two more journals will join the impressive digitized collection by the end of 2000. Permission has been granted by the International Society of Olympic Historians to digitize their Journal of Olympic History (formerly, Citius Altius Fortius: the ISOH journal, v1, 1992 - v4, no3, 1996; and change to present title with v5, no.1, 1997) and from the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand for the journal entitled: Sport Management Review (v1, 1998- ISSN 1441-3523). With the addition of these titles, AAFLA is becoming a major website for sports researchers.
1.4 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.
NASLIN Steering Committee member, James Gates, Library Director at the NBHFM, Inc. reports that the Library’s online catalog is now available on their website: http://baseballhalloffame.org/index.htm. The system is aptly named ABNER (American Baseball Network for Electronic Research) (and for Abner Doubleday, generally considered the inventor of baseball – Ed.) and includes the catalog, several archival finding aids, and some bibliographies. It should soon have the addition of a file containing hyperlinks to other scholarly baseball resources on the Internet. While ABNER is still rather small it should continue to grow for quite some time.
In addition NBHFM has just received word that the Babe Ruth Scrapbook Collection, (10 scrapbooks on his career, a gift from his family) have been formally named American Treasures by the Save American Treasures program. This is a high profile program being highlighted by the First Lady, Hillary Clinton. NBHFM has also been notified that they are to be awarded a $50,000 grant as part of a matching fund program to help pay for the preservation of these items.
And to top off the good news, Major League Baseball Properties has agreed to provide NBHFM with $250,000 to sponsor an academic study on the history of African-Americans in baseball between 1860 and 1960. This is the first time that NBHFM has ever sponsored such a study. James mentioned that anyone interested in this project should request a copy of the RFP (Request for Proposals) and should contact him directly by mail or email or fax (James Gates, Email: jgates@baseballhalloffame.org) National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Box 590, Cooperstown, NY 13326, Tel: 607-547-7200, FAX: 607-547-4094
1.5 Joyce Sports Research Collection, University of Notre Dame
The website for the Joyce Sports Research Collection at the University of Notre Dame has had some recent additions as George Rugg, Curator, takes his task at hand and continues to arrange, catalog and make accessible on the web, information on the large collection of sports materials in this major repository. Recently the collection of 4600+ men’s college basketball team media guides, (1940s +) have been added in an item-by-item list by name of university: http://www.sport.nd.edu/Basketball/bkcolmg.html
In addition, the University’s OPAC will show the many recently catalogued, early and scarce sports monographs housed in the Library’s Special Collection Dept. Approximately 1500 sport-related titles, published prior to 1920, US and British imprints, are in this special and rare book collection.
The Winkler Collection of Boxing Photographs, images of boxers dating from 1920s to 1960s have been scanned into a database and should be on the web soon. There are some examples of the possible 6500 photos already on the website, see :http://www.sports.nd.edu/exhibits/winkexhibit/winkmenu.html. These photographs were originally on 4 x 5 inch glass negatives. Corel Photo House software pops up when web users select an image.
1.6 National Sporting Library
This outstanding library for equestrian sports in Middleburg, Virginia has now made their OPAC available to web users, (see: http://www.nsl.org/. Upon entering the home page, click on Catalog (in the list to the left) to access the NSL OPAC which utilizes Caspr’s Library World software ( Web: http://www.caspr.com/ ) and is supported by Library.com platform. The NSL collection now stands at 12,000 monographs and serial titles. In the late fall, the OPAC will have the 3,000 volume rare book collection added. This collection features 16^th and 17^th century books on equitation, the first shooting and fishing books published in America, Izaak Walton’s The Complete Angler in the first five editions and many other works on fox hunting, hunting, plus the manuscript treasures.
Rob Weber is the Librarian at NSL and can be reached at: nsl@nsl.org. Tel: 703-687-6542
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