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SIRC Reaches Agreement with the Olympic Museum

The internationally renown Olympic Museum, located in Lausanne, Switzerland, signed an agreement with the Sport Information Resource Centre in January 1996. This agreement will allow the bibliographic database of the Museum's library to be included on the SPORT Discus CD-ROM. The Olympic Museum acknowledged that this will allow for international access to this unique collection of Olympic information resources.

The Olympic Museum, which is a foundation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), was founded in 1922 when it was first housed in premises in Montbenon, Switzerland. It later moved to Mon-Repos Villa in Lausanne and operated there until 1970. No exhibits were displayed after 1970 until the re-establishment of the Olympic Museum in 1982 by the IOC. In 1993 it moved to its new modern facilities at Ouchy in the centre of Lausanne.

The Museum puts the Olympic Movement on display and provides constant information on the Games. The library of the Olympic Museum contains over "15,000 volumes relating to the IOC, the Games, and Olympic disciplines as well as sport in general and its relations with health, art and culture. It is constantly being enriched by new additions."

The Sport Information Resource Centre was founded in 1973 and is a nonprofit organization which indexes the literature of sport through its on-line SPORT Database and its CD-ROM SPORT Discus. The SPORT Discus currently includes the SPORT Database (over 375,000 bibliographic citations) and also France's largest sport information database, Sportdoc's Heracles database (over 55,000 bibliographic citations). The SPORT Database and the SPORT Discus are currently being used in over 50 countries around the world and by more than 200,000 people annually.

The addition of the Olympic Museum's database to the SPORT Discus will allow for worldwide access to this unique collection of sport information. It is planned that the Olympic Museum's database will be added to the SPORT Discus in its July update. This information would be accessible prior to the commencement of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta this Summer.

Debra Gassewitz

President and CEO

SIRC

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