SIRC - Sport Information Resource Centre

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SIRC - Sport Information Resource Centre

• Brandie Adams and Kim Cook
• Winnipeg, November 22, 2007

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Who is SIRC?

• Worlds leading sport information resource
  centre
• Founded in 1973
• Not-for-profit Canadian corporation
• Promoting Sport Research for over 30 years
• Our expertise is known worldwide
• Located in Ottawa, Canada

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www.sirc.ca

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www.sirc.ca

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Do you find yourself

• Looking for resources?
• Trying to find ways to communicate with and
  educate your members?
• Needing to raise awareness of your sport?
• Dealing with time constraints?
• Wishing for the convenience of it all to be in
  one place?

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Looking for Resources?

• We have
• Professional librarians and indexers
• 6.5 million pages of sport related information
• Scope of collection includes
• Coaching
• Administration
• Sport Medicine
• Physical Education
• Physical Fitness
• Leisure

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Trying to Communicate and Educate?

• SIRC Newsletter
• Anti-doping
• Coaching
• Physical Education
• SIRC Collection
• 24/7 access
• Ask a librarian
• Receive your documents
• SIRC Online Resources

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Trying to Communicate and Educate?

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Trying to Communicate and Educate?

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Trying to Communicate and Educate?

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Needing to Raise Awareness?

• SIRC Press release service
• Reaches 6000 SIRC Members
• National and International Coverage
• Results, announcements, job postings
• SIRC Job Postings
• SIRC Seminars
• SIRC Conference Calendar

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Needing to Raise Awareness?

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Needing to Raise Awareness?

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Needing to Raise Awareness?

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Needing to Raise Awareness?

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Dealing with Time Constraints?

• SIRC Collection
• 24/7 access
• Ask a librarian
• Receive your documents
• SIRC Literature Review Service

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Convenience of it all to be in one place?

• SIRC Membership
• Ask a librarian
• Search SIRC Collection
• Receive your documents
• Stay informed
• SIRC Newsletter
• SIRC Press Release Service
• Job Postings
• Conference Calendar

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Convenience of it all to be in one place?

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Convenience of it all to be in one place?

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Contact Us!

• Brandie Adams
• badams_at_sirc.ca
• 613-231-7472 ext. 242
• Kim Cook
• kcook_at_sirc.ca
• 613-231-7472 ext. 243