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Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA
of media on a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as
they begin their research project.
SPORTS
To find books in the MHS Media Center,
open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop.
Type in the sport you want to search such as baseball, football, basketball,
etc. For information on a specific athlete try a subject search using
the athlete's name (remember last name , then first name). Try a
subject search using the broad term sports and clicking on the browse
button to see how the term is divided into more specific subject areas.
Other suggested searches:
Athletes
Extreme sports
Professional sports
College sports
Doping in sports
Olympics
Sports--Vocational guidance
Some titles we have are:
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306.4 ARE |
Are Athletes Good Role Models? Geoff Griffin, book editor. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2005. |
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306.4 CUR |
Currie, Stephen. Issues in Sports. San Diego, CA: Lucent, 1998. |
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796.04 PRO |
Professional Sports / James D. Torr, book editor. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven, 2003. |
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REF 796 DUN |
Duncan, Joyce. Sports in American Culture : From Ali to X-Games. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLO, 2004. |
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REF 796 FOR |
Fortin, Francois. Sports : The Complete Visual Reference. Willowdale, Ont.: Firefly, 2000. |
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REF 796 HIC |
Hickok, Ralph. The Encyclopedia of North American Sports History. 2nd ed. NY: Facts on file, 2002. |
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REF 796 CHR |
The Olympic games : Athens 1896-Athens 2004. NY: DK, 2004. |
SELECTED WEB SITES
Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.sportsknowhow.com/
Offers the
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/popspt.html
Subject link access to sport websites.
Multnomah County Library
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sportshc.html
A great site. Check out their sports links.
Librarians' Internet Index
http://lii.org/pub/htdocs/home.htm
Put sports in the Search Lll box to find sports
links.
Authoritative websites contains high quality websites. Check out their
sports listings.
Dewey Browse
http://www.deweybrowse.org/Dewey_Browse_700.html
Arrangement is by Dewey subject. Look at the 796 subject area for
sports. This website was created and is maintained by high school Library
Media Specialist Gail Shea Granger in Chesterfield, NH.
KidsClick!
http://www.kidsclick.org
Choose either Sports (General) or
Sports Scores
Created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System
in Colorado.
ONLINE RESOURCES
InfoTrac®
PowerSearch
Contains
databases of magazine articles, biographical resources, literature, health and
business references. Try Reference Center Gold,
Expanded Academic ASAP, and Gale
Biography In Context.
eLibrary [in
library] [from
home]
Full text database
of magazine and newspaper articles, TV and radio transcripts, pictures and
maps. Find full text, up-to-date, published
articles.
ProQuest
(Massachusetts Newsstand)
Newspaper
articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current),
Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other
Massachusetts newspapers.
Grolier Online [in
library] [from
home]
2
electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia
Encyclopedia.
Articles in these encyclopedias link you to
other articles and also to relevant web sites where
you where you can find more information on
your topic.
CITING SOURCES
- Using MLA Style to Cite and
Document Sources
www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html
- OWL Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html#Works-Cited
- NoodleBib
http://www.noodletools.com/login.php
Online tool to assist you in citing your sources easily and correctly in the MLA style format.
Using these links
indicates the user is leaving
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.
Edited by Media
Staff
12/15/10
Date last edited