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Sports

The Sports collection includes books and other materials that deal with team and competitive sports, as well as non-competitive sports, outdoor sports and activities, and indoor games. Some of the areas covered are hiking, mountaineering, fishing, card games, chess, magic tricks and sleight-of-hand, and role playing games. Items in the sports collection circulate throughout the library system, and are very popular.

The collection includes many "how-to" works, which provide information about coaching and teach the technical fundamentals of various sports and activities. Examples are: basketball, baseball, football, soccer, golf, tennis, skiing, hiking, fishing, snowboarding, the martial arts, chess, card games, and mountaineering. The library is seeking to increase this collection by adding more of these materials in soccer and racquet games, which are increasingly popular. In addition, the library has sports and games reference materials of many kinds, including histories, biographies, encyclopedias & dictionaries, and sports statistics.

The heaviest users of this collection are people with an interest in sports as participants, such as individuals seeking to improve their skill level with a game or sport. Fans who are looking for statistics, history, and current events in sports and games also use this collection, as do students.

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Materials related to athletic activities, but which focus largely on the health aspects of sports are kept in the Medicine collection (e.g. yoga, at 613.7046). Books and other materials about toys and games (including manuals on fly tying) are kept in the Manufacturing collection. Some materials on hunting and fishing, in particular those dealing with the commercial aspects of these topics, are kept with the Technology collection.

At Central Library, these collections are housed in the Science & Business room.