Event Management
This pathfinder is intended to assist those doing research in the area
of event management (event, in this connection, being defined as public
assembly for the purpose of education, celebration, marketing, or reunion).
This guide is arranged in the following sections: |
Subject Librarian:
Shmuel Ben-Gad
Location: Gelman Library
E-mail: shmuelb@gwu.edu
Phone: 202-994-6048
Updated: July 2007
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Use these indexes to find articles in periodicals.
To access databases with a location of "ALADIN", click on the title of the database. To see a list of databases available through ALADIN, go to the ALADIN Home Page. Under "Databases by Title" on the right side of the screen, choose from the three alphabetical groupings.
ALADIN databases are available for use only by current GW students, staff, and faculty. If you are using this page from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter the barcode number from the back of your GWorld ID card before you can access the database.
- ABI Inform. 1970-
Location: ALADIN
A business database. Some useful subject headings are special events, festivals,
and corporate sponsorship.
- Business
Source Premier
Location: ALADIN
Another business database. Some useful subjecct headings are special events, festivals, and corporate sponsorship.
- ProQuest Research Library Plus. 1970-
Location: ALADIN
Useful subject headings are special events, festivals, and corporate sponsorship.
- Business and Industry Database. 1994-
Location: ALADIN
This index covers "leading trade magazines, newsletters, the general business press and international business dailies" from different countries and in a number of languages. For all articles there are substantive abstracts in English and the full text is available as well for most of the English language articles. This is a particularly good source for information about companies, industries, products, and services.
- Factiva.
Location: ALADIN
This provides the full text of newspaper and business magazine articles. The emphasis is on news rather than scholarly articles.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.
Location: ALADIN
This provides mostly full text of articles in many newspapers and general interest and some business periodicals. The emphasis is on news rather than scholarly articles.
- Leisuretourism.com.
1976.
Location: ALADIN
Indexes hospitality, leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and cultural industries
literature, including books, chapters within books, and periodical articles.
Useful key words are special events, festivals, conference tourism, and conference
facilities. There is a paper version, Leisure, and Tourism Abstracts (REF
GV 191.6 .R86), that covers 1976-1998.
- Sports
Business Research Network. 1995 -.
Location: ALADIN
Covers literature about the sporting goods and sports marketing industries.
Use the library catalogue on ALADIN. Subject headings that may be helpful to search under are:
- SPECIAL EVENTS
- MEETINGS--PLANNING
- CONGRESSES AND CONVENTIONS--PLANNING
- CONGRESSES AND CONVENTIONS--MANAGEMENT
- FESTIVALS--PLANNING
- FESTIVALS--MANAGEMENT
- CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP
- CONVENTION FACILITIES
- CATERERS AND CATERING
You may also want to search under specific types of events (e.g. Webrings).
- APEX Glossary
Location: http://glossary.convetionindustry.org
"The glossary of the meetings, conventions and exhibitions industry."
- International Dictionary of Event Management edited by J. Goldblatt and K. Nelson
Location: REF GT 3404 .I57 2001; there is also a copy in Special Collections.
- Major Exhibit Halls.
Location: http://www.MajorExhibitHalls.com
This provides links to the web sites of large exhibition facilities in many countries.
- Convention Bureaus.
Location: http://www.ConventionBureaus.com
This is, "a directory of official Convention Bureau and National Tourist Office web sites around the globe."
- National Trust Guide Meeting Planner's Guide to Historic Places
Location: TX 907.2 .R49 1997
Portfolios on reserve can be identified by clicking on "more search options"
near the top of the library home page and then on Course Reserve, and then choosing
in the department box "GW-TSTD: Tourism Studies." Not all the items
listed will be portfolios.
Visit Gelman Library's Department of Special Collections, which houses The
Event Management and Marketing Archives. This archives includes a variety of
collections of primary and secondary source materials of scholarly and historical
interest.
For more information, call the Reference Desk at 202-994-6048 or use
the E-mail Reference Form. This page is maintained
by Shmuel Ben-Gad.
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