Sports, the Olympics, and the Olympian Ideal - A Library Guide

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SEARCHING FOR BOOKS

To search for books, identify a subject term from the Library of Congress Subject Headings and enter it in the search box of the online library catalog as a subject. For example, consider using the following subject headings: philosophy ancient, Olympics, athletics, sports. You may also search by keyword and then identify and ‘follow’ linked subject headings included in the catalog record.

Or browse the following Dewey numbers located in the stacks of the Library: (79x.xxx Olympics), (913.38.xxx Greece Civilization), ( 796.01 Sports), (18x.xxx Philosophy Ancient), ( 901xxx – 930.xxx History Ancient).
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REFERENCE BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

R 032 En19 1998
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc.

R 050 R22
Reader's guide to periodical literature: an author and subject index (1900-1993)
H.W. Wilson Company.

R 103 En19
The encyclopedia of philosophy
Edwards, Paul

374.22 G798
Great books of the Western World. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago
Hutchins, Robert Maynard

R 796.0922 P143
Black olympian medalists
Page, James A. (James Allen)

R 901.91 C144h
The Cambridge ancient history
Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell

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                              SEARCHING FOR ARTICLES

To search for articles, consider the following databases, link to which may be found at the library Web Page: http://library.morningside.edu/index.htm

Academic Search Premier by EBSCO accesses over 3,800 full-text publications including 2,800 peer- reviewed journals. See sample search strategy on page two.

A to Z by EBSCO is a listing of periodicals available either in print in the Morningside Library or through the databases to which Morningside College is subscriber.

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FROM THE WORLD WIDE WEB

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

The Perseus Digital Library – Greek & Roman Materials
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html

The Olympic Games from the Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/

Olympics Through Time
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/olympics/

The Ancient Olympic Games – Virtual Museum
http://minbar.cs.dartmouth.edu/greecom/olympics/

The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games (From the University of Pennsylvania)
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc/Mediterranean/Olympics/olympicintro.shtml

The Olympic Information Center (A virtual archive of scholarly studies, official reports and oral histories)
http://www.aafla.org/6oic/over_frmst.htm

The U.S. Olympic Committee Homepage
http://www.usoc.org/

The Official Website of the Olympic Movement
http://www.olympic.org/uk/index_uk.asp

Athens 2004
http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/athens/index_uk.asp

Center for the Study of Sport in Society
http://www.sportinsociety.org/index2.html

Sports Ethics Institute
http://www.sportsethicsinstitute.org/

Scholarly Sports Sites (University of Calgary)
http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/ssportsite/

Sport Psychology Oversite
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bing/oversite/sportpsych.html

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