Most of the books on sports and recreation are located in the Education Library in Sangren Hall.  When you find a book in the catalog, look at the book's LOCATION to make sure you are in the right library.

Use the Library's Catalog Advanced Search to find books on your paper topic.  You can find both primary documents and secondary sources through the catalog.  Just follow the suggestions in the search tips.

When looking for books by topic, enter your keyword(s) into the search boxes. Break up your topic using different keywords, putting them on separate lines.

SEARCH TIP:  If you are using a phrase in your search, be sure and put it in quotation marks, e.g., "african americans"

SEARCH TIP:     Use the asterisk  *  as a wild card to pick up variant endings of words, e.g., ethnic* will retrieve ethnic, ethnicity, ethnicities, etc.

SEARCH TIP:  To find primary documents, use one of the boxes in the Advanced Library Search to include keywords such as: sources OR letters OR diaries OR "personal narratives" OR "oral history" OR correspondence OR speeches.

SEARCH TIP:  Be sure and do an author search in Advanced Library Search to see if the person/people that are prominent in the topic you are researching authored any materials.  Books written by people who participated in an event are considered primary documents.

If you are interested in sports in the Chicago area, be sure to take a look at the Chicago History Encyclopedia.