Sports and Recreation
Books
General Collection
Sports: the complete visual reference/Francois Fortin
The sports rulebook/Human Kinetics
The games do count: America’s best and brightest on the power of sports/Brian Kilmeade
The anatomy of sports injuries/Brad Walker
Coming back stronger: unleashing the hidden power of adversity/Drew Brees
Ebooks
Home team: coaching the Saints and New Orleans back to life/Sean Payton
Reference Books (in-library use only)
The language of sport/Tim Considine
Combat sports: an encyclopedia of wrestling, fighting, and mixed martial arts/ David Hudson
Periodicals
Sports Illustrated (Available in print and in MasterFILE Premier)
ESPN (Available in print)
Golf Digest (Available in print and in MasterFILE Premier)
Tiger Rag (Available in print)
Field & Stream (Available in print and in Master FILE Premier)
Online Databases
Biography Collection Complete - A comprehensive collection of more than 177,000 full-text biographies from many different sources, supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas.
Book Collection – Nonfiction - Contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.
MasterFILE Premier - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as the Image Collection, with over 502,000 photos, maps & flags
SPORTDiscuss - Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains well over 1.7 million records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.
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