EVENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM RESOURCES

The Art Institute of Vancouver Library carries many Event Management resources that cover topics such as event preparation, budgeting, management, planning, the event management industry, business management, and much more. Search the Voyager Library Catalogue to see what books are currently available.

See also Program Resources for:

• EVALUATING INFORMATION - Books, Web, & Journals
• RESEARCH, WRITING & COPYRIGHT
• BUSINESS & MARKETING RESOURCES

The Art Institute of Vancouver Library uses Library of Congress classification call numbers. Event Management books are generally found in the GT-GV call number range as follows:

Recommended Books
Art of Celebration South Florida: The Making of a Gala-South Florida Style Art of the event : complete guide to designing and decorating special events Confessions of an event planner : case studies from the real world of events Display: 2-D and 3-D Design for Exhibitions, Galleries, Museums and Trade Shows Events Management: An Integrated and Practical Approach Event planning : the ultimate guide to successful meetings, corporate events, fundraising galas, conferences, conventions, incentives and other special event The everything guide to being an event planner : insider’s advice on turning your creative energy into a rewarding career Opportunities in event planning careers Preston Bailey’s design for entertaining : inspiration for creating the party of your dreams Special event production: The resources Streetwise meeting and event planning Sustainable Event Management

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Complete, up-dated information on the magazine collection can be found on the Voyager Library catalogue and a full list of titles can be found HERE.

General Event Management Resources, News & Tools

• APEX - The Accepted Practices Exchange - an initiative of the Convention Industry Council (CIC) that brings together all stakeholders in the development and implementation of accepted practices to create and enhance efficiencies throughout the meetings, conventions and exhibitions industry.
• BNET.com - Provides working professionals with the tools, advice, and insight they need to succeed in today's workplace with searchable white papers, case studies, business articles, and blog posts relating to event management.
• Event-Planner.com - providing consumers and event-planning professionals with a comprehensive source of event planning information. 
• Evite -  free online event planning service & for planning or attending group gatherings, including guest list management tools, polling, maps, reminders, and payment collection applications.
• The impact of events - aims to provide teachers and students with key readings and concepts that cover the role of event managers and the impacts of an event throughout each stage of the planning process and beyond.
• Major sports events : the guide - to help inform decision making by organisers of major and world class sporting events. It highlights key areas that need to be considered when planning and preparing a bid for staging a major event.
• Meeting Professionals International - The meeting and event industry’s largest and most vibrant global community, helps our members thrive by providing human connections to knowledge and ideas, relationships, and marketplaces.
• Meetpie.com - includes industry news, links to education and job opportunities, publications, and directories.
• Meetings: Review - Web TV and news resource for the international meetings/MICE community, delivering dynamic content, to corporate, association meeting and incentive travel planners in a sustainable way that is in keeping with modern and responsible media.
• Showamovie.ca - Guide to everything you need to know to show a film in public.
• Speaking of Events - Website by Certified Special Events Professional, Julia Silvers, providing useful and usable information on all aspects of event management laced with real-life examples that drive the concepts home.
• Sport & Recreation Managment - contains a section for event management in the context of sports and recreation.

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The Art Institute of Vancouver Library is proud to offer a collection of excellent databases and online resources that Event Management instructors and students can use. These resources are available for you to use at any of The Art Institute of Vancouver campuses or remotely from home for your study, research, work, and leisure needs.

**Please note that you must obtain the necessary Access USER IDs & Passwords from the library to use these resources.  Please drop by at any Art Institute of Vancouver Library location, call, or email the library staff to obtain the necessary information.**

• Firstcom Music
  UNLIMITED downloads and full access to Firstcom’s library of over 140,000 post production music tracks. Clips may be included in internet sharing, webcasts, postcasts, cellular and mobile devices and social networks; non-broadcast audio, video, digital media; corporate intranet, and/or closed circuit communications productions. Audio MUST NOT BE USED IN ANY PRODUCTION THAT IS SOLD!

• Getty Images - If you have already signed-up for Getty Images, contact library for access codes. Otherwise, *Sign-up* for Getty Images.
  Getty Images User Guide (PDF)
  Over 500K high quality stock imagery. Students may download up to 50 high-resolution images and an unlimited number of low-resolution imagery per quarter. Images are for educational purposes only and using them for any commercial (even non-profit) or non-coursework or non-portfolio related purposes is strictly prohibited.

• H. W. WilsonWeb Omnifile Full Text Select
  Quick Tips Search Guide (PDF) Full User Guide Tutorial (PDF)
  Periodical database that provides full-text articles with their accompanying indexing and abstracts on topics in the arts, applied and pure sciences, social science, education, humanities, legal and business fields. Contains full text of articles from over 2500 publications, some back to 1982.

• Killer Tracks
  Killer Tracks User Guide (PDF)
  Post-production audio resource. Users may download or stream audio clips ONLY from the NJJ library, discs 101 to the most current Killer Tracks CDs, and discs 185 to the most recent Network Music CDs. Clips may be included in non-broadcast audio, video, digital media, corporate intranet, and/or closed circuit communications productions. Killer Tracks MUST NOT BE USED IN ANY PRODUCTION THAT IS SOLD

• Proquest Bigchalk Electric Library
  ELibrary offers a broad range of full-text and multimedia content, including a digital archive of information sources of more than 2700 full-text periodicals, international newswires, classic books, maps, photographs, and major literary, art, and reference titles.

• Proquest “Big Bundle"
  Proquest Quick Reference Guide (PDF)
  One stop access to THOUSANDS of periodical magazine, newspaper, trade and scholarly publications including Proquest Research Library; ABI Complete which covers business, economics, product and competitive info, corporate and management techniques and strategies; National Newspapers 27 which provides articles from major regional dailies; and Proquest Psychology which encompasses a range of topics from over 500 leading psychology publications

• Safari Technical E-Books
  Sample Searches Search Guide (PDF)
  An electronic library collection of over 7800 e-books in a fully searchable database from Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press, Adobe Press, and many other top technology publishers, covering Adobe, Maya, Photoshop, and much more.

Do you know of any other resources? Having trouble finding the information that you need? Need the user access codes for these databases? Please contact the Library for help, or if you have any comments or resource suggestions.

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