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Books, AV & Magazines

The MATC Libraries Catalog provides access to books, magazines, reserve material, audio-visual material, and web resources. Most of the books and audio-visual items on sports and leisure are in the 790's. You can search for your particular sport you're interested in as a subject term, or try doing one of the following broad searches:

Browse our catalog for titles about Recreation and Leisure

Browse our catalog for titles relating to Sports

The MATC Libraries subscribe to several magazines covering different sports and leisure topics.
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Bicycling

Climbing

Field & Stream

Hot Rod

Mountain Bike

National Geographic Adventure

Outside

Runner’s World

Sporting News

Sports Illustrated

Western Horseman

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Web Sites

CBS Sportsline
http://cbs.sportsline.com/
All sorts of current sports information.

ESPN.com
http://espn.go.com/
Sports news and analysis, as well as a well-maintained scoreboard of current and past scores.

GORP (Great Outdoor Recreation Pages)
http://www.gorp.com
Large, annotated directory of site for outdoor recreation.

Recreation.gov
http://www.recreation.gov
One-stop source for information about recreation on United States federal land.

The Sport Journal
http://www.thesportjournal.org/
This electronic journal is a publication of the U.S. Sports Academy. It is designed to further the knowledge of sport by allowing professionals in the field to publish articles at this site.

Sporting News Archives: the Vault
http://www.sportingnews.com/archives
Historical archives of the Sporting News that is arranged to be used as a reference tool.

SPORTQuest
http://www.sirc.ca/online_resources/sportquest.cfm
This Canadian site provides links to detailed information on nearly 100 sports.

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Electronic Databases

Click on the title of the database below. Access from home or work is available with your MATC network ID and login.

Academic Universe -- Search thousands of newspapers through the Quick News Search or search a specific list of sports publications in the Guided News Search.

Powersearch

Proquest Online Newspapers

Learning Objects

A Learning Object is any digital resource that breaks educational content down into small chunks:

HOWLER -- HOWLER (Help Online with Library Education & Research) is a series of multimedia tutorials designed to guide you through the library research process.

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