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Gretchen Ghent,
Librarian Emeritus,
Chair, NASLIN and VP, North American IASI,
President,
International Association for Sports Information (IASI)
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Gretchen Ghent is a Librarian Emeritus at the University of Calgary, having taken early retirement
after serving 25 years from staff librarian to in her last position as Head of the Sciences/Professions
Area in the University of Calgary Library.
A graduate of Ohio State University with an additional degree in Library Science from the University of
British Columbia, she is a founding member and the present Chair of the North American Sport Library
Network. Currently President of the International Association for Sport Information (IASI), she also
serves on the Editorial Board of the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education.
Her website, Scholarly Sport Sites: a Subject Directory was created in 1999 to assist IASI, NASLIN
and the academic community with links to important resources for sport sciences research. A volunteer
indexer for SPORTDiscus database, she has contributed over 4,000 indexed records for the 1988 Winter
Olympic Games, the Canadian Sport History Project and currently sport essays and chapters from
non-sport books.
Conference presentations include Archival Networks and Databases: Sport Archives information in
Canada and the United States, for the 12th IASI World Congress, Beijing, and the essay, Magazines
in the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport, 2005.
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