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Sports Library
The Sports Library is located in the Arts, Social Science and Sports Library, in the Central Library Building.
The sports collection is a unique resource for anyone with an interest in sport and physical recreation, including books, journals and current information on a wide range of sports and related subjects, including:
- Building design
- Coaching
- Disability and sport
- Drugs
- Health and safety
- Leisure management
- Marketing
- Physiology and medicine
- Exercise and fitness
- Psychology
- Racism
- Violence in sport
The collection includes:
Download a copy of Sports Focus - the Sports Library magazine, where you can check out new sports books we have received.
Download a copy of Get Active - our leaflet about fitness information sources from the bottom of this page.
Contact us with your sports enquiries or for more information about the Sports Library:
Tel: 0114 273 4747
Online Resources
Use our free 24/7 online reference information in your library or at home. All you n eed is your library card or your smartcard number.
- CREDOreference includes -
- Oxford Reference Online
- Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
- KnowUK includes -
- Infotrac Custom Journals include -
- Mountain Bike (1999-current)
- Journal of Sports Sciences (2000-2006)
- British Journal of Sports Medicine (2001-2004)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Look through over 50,000 biographies of men and women who shaped Britain's past, as well as various "Themes"
- Who's Who and Who Was Who - Who's Who includes information on over 33,000 influential people in British public life, and Who Was Who is an historical archive of over 90,000 deceased people previously in Who's Who.
- NewsUK - search through national and local newspapers. Also has useful news topics on a variety of issues.
Downloads
Leaflet produced by the Sports Library about sources of fitness information (214 KB)
Leaflet produced by the Sports Library about sources of fitness information. (1.84 MB)
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