LS 472: Legal Issues in Sports and Recreation: Finding Books

To find books and government documents in USA Libraries' collections, use SOUTHcat: USA Libraries' Catalog.

• Catalog tips and tricks:
  • Keyword searches – use quotation marks to hold phrases together ("sports law")
  • Truncation – use ? after the root of a word to find all its variants (negligen? finds negligence, negligent ...)
  • Browse the Subject(s) field in records to find the right words for searches. (Example: Try doing a keyword search for "sports law," then look at the subject(s) field in several records. You’ll see that one subject term is "Sports --Law and legislation --United States --Cases." Click the subject heading to find more records with this subject.)
• Revise and refine your searches.
• Watch for repeating call numbers and browse stacks in that area.
• Pay attention to the Location and Status fields. You will need this information to locate the item in the library.

The University owns or subscribes to several ebook collections. These are the most useful for sports law: