Sports & Society (EN1021)

Background Information	Research Process Flow Chart (Inspiration)
Books & Videos at Landmark College	Research Process Flow Chart (Word)
Books & Videos at Other Libraries	Search Terms Worksheet (Word)
Websites	Formulating a Research Question (Word)
Articles
Citations

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Find Background Information

Reference area (first floor)

Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports— 796.046 B513

 Encyclopedia of World Sport — 796.03 B513

  Encyclopedia of Sports in America: A History — 796.0973 E56

  Sport in American Culture: From Ali to X-Games — 796 D911S

  The Women's Sports Encyclopedia — 796.082 MAR

  Modern Sports Ethics -- 796 L958m

Business & Economics

  The Business of Sports — 796.0691 B979 v. 1-3

  Handbook on the Economics of Sport — 338.4779 H236

Biographies

  Current Biography Yearbook — 920 CUR

  Encyclopedia of 20th Century Athletes - 796.0922 MCG

Databases

• Biography Reference Bank
  Provides biographies, full text articles, and many images of over 500,000 people from antiquity to the present.

• Issues and Controversies
  Start with the subject Sports

 

Find Books & Films at the Landmark College Library

Search Library Catalog for books & movies in the Landmark College Library.

Book stacks (second floor)

• All-Stars & Movie Stars: Sports in Film & History — 791.4365 A442

• Baseball in Crisis: Spiraling Costs, Bad Behavior, Uncertain Future — 796.357 J895B

• The Bottom Line: Observations and Arguments on the Sports Business — 338.4779 Z71B

• Dope: A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today — 362.2909 R813D

• The Economics of Intercollegiate Sports — 796.0430 G762E

• One Helluva Ride: How NASCAR Swept the Nation — 796.72 C598O

• Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes— 796.092 O94

• Punch!: Why Women Participate in Violent Sports — 796.082 L33P

• Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change—  306.483 S7645

• Sport in Ancient Times — 796.0901 C953S

• Sports: The First Five Millennia — 796.09 G985S

• Sports Mania: Essays on Fandom and the Media in the 21st Century — 306.483 S7644

• Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader — 796.082 W872

DVD's in our collection (second floor)

• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (DVD) — 616.69206 B655

 

Find Books & Films Available from Other Libraries

1. Search in WorldCat for an item:
   
   

   Search for an item in libraries near you: Enter title, subject or author
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2. Print-out the record for the item you want and bring it the front desk of the library OR email the information to library@landmark.edu
3. Allow up to two weeks (average is one week) for the materials to arrive.

 

 

Websites

Use the C.R.A.P. Test (Word) to evaluate your web sources
Getting the Goods from Google (Word)

EXAMPLE: Michael Phelps Has No Business Apologizing for Taking Bong Hits

• Baseball | PBS 
  http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/baseball/

• Center for the Study of Sport in Society
  http://www.sportsinsociety.org/

• LA84 Foundation
  http://www.la84foundation.org/index.html

• Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
  http://americanhistory.si.edu/sports/
  
  
• Women's Sports Foundation
  http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/

• World Anti-Doping Agency
  http://www.wada-ama.org/en/

 

 

Find Articles

Use the Search Term Worksheet to organize your search strategy.

Databases

• Academic Search Premier
  Includes abstracts and some full text scholarly articles on all aspects of the relationship between sports and society. 

• CQ Researcher
  Includes reports on many aspects of sports and society and related subjects by objective, experienced journalists.
  • Use the list under the topic Sports & Recreation as a starting point

• PowerSearch
  Cross-search multiple databases, including many sports & society-related academic journals.

 

Citations

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Need Help??

Contact your class librarian Kathy Burris   x1628
Or Library Front Desk x1648