Kinesiology/Sports Librarian

Library Contact for Kinesiology

The library liaison for kinesiology is Scott Marsalis. I no longer maintain this blog.

Susan

Recent Acquisitions (2005-2006)

3-59.4 : the quest to break the four-minute mile / John Bryant.
A hero for Daisy [videorecording] / a 50 Eggs production in association with Redtree Productions and
American sports : from the age of folk games to the age of televised sports / Benjamin G. Rader.
America's first Olympics : the St. Louis games of 1904 / George R. Matthews.
Amped : how big air, big dollars, and a new generation took sports to the extreme / David Browne.
Annals of an Eton house, with some notes on the Evans family, by Major Gambier-Parry.
Aristocracy and athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece / Nigel James Nicholson.
Aspects of sport governance / edited by Darlene Kluka, William Stier, Jr. & Guido Schilling.
Association football and society in pre-partition Ireland / Neal Garnham.
Athletics and literature in the Roman Empire / Jason K+¦nig.
Baseball in Minnesota : the definitive history / Stew Thornley.
Basketball fun & games : 50 skill-building activities for children / Keven A. Prusak.
Berkshire encyclopedia of world sport / David Levinson and Karen Christensen, editors.
Beyond reality : a guide to alternate reality gaming / John W. Gosney.
Body, sport and society in Norden : essays in cultural history / by Niels Kayser Nielsen.
Boxing in black and white : a statistical study of race in the ring, 1949-1983 / Andrew Lindsay.
Boyz 2 buddhas : counseling urban high school male athletes in the zone / David Forbes.
Career opportunities in the sports industry / Shelly Field.
Consuming sport : fans, sport, and culture / Garry Crawford.
Counseling in sports medicine / [editors], Richard Ray, Diane M. Wiese-Bjornstal.
Cricket and national identity in the postcolonial age : following on / edited by Stephen Wagg.
Deconstructing sport history : a postmodern analysis / edited by Murray G. Phillips ; with a forewor
Directory of graduate programs in applied sport psychology / developed by the Association for the Ad
Directory of graduate programs in sport management / editor, P. Greg Comfort.
Dynatomy / William Whiting and Stuart Rugg.
Elementary physical education teaching & assessment : a practical guide / Christine J. Hopple.
Elite sport development : policy learning and political priorities / Mick Green and Barrie Houlihan.
Encyclopedia of recreation and leisure in America / Gary S. Cross, editor in chief.
Encyclopedia of traditional British rural sports / editors, Tony Collins, John Martin, and Wray Vamp
England's revelry : a history of popular sports and pastimes, 1660-1830 / by Emma Griffin.
European cultures in sport : examining the nations and regions / edited by James Riordan, Arnd Kr++g
Exercise physiology : professional issues, organizational concerns, and ethical trends / Tommy Boone
Feminist sport studies : sharing experiences of joy and pain / edited by Pirkko Markula.
Financing sport / Dennis R. Howard, John L. Crompton.
Football and American identity / Gerhard Falk.
Football, the first hundred years : the untold story / Adrian Harvey.
Free time and leisure participation : international perspectives / edited by Grant Cushman, A.J. Vea
From sandlots to the Super Bowl : the National Football League, 1920-1967 / Craig R. Coenen.
Games and festivals in classical antiquity : proceedings of the conference held in Edinburgh 10-12 J
Games and sanctuaries in ancient Greece : Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens / Panos Valavanis
Games for the whole child / Brian Barrett.
Greek athletics in the Roman world : victory and virtue / Zahra Newby.
Handbook of computer game studies / edited by Joost Raessens and Jeffrey Goldstein.
In the game : race, identity, and sports in the twentieth century / edited by Amy Bass.
Inclusive physical activity : a lifetime of opportunities / Susan L. Kasser, Rebecca K. Lytle.
Indian cricket through the ages : a reader / edited by Boria Majumdar.
Inside the minds : the legal sides of entertainment, sports, & media.
Inside the Olympics : a behind-the-scenes look at the politics, the scandals, and the glory of the g
Issues in recreation and leisure : ethical decision making / Donald J. McLean and Daniel G. Yoder.
Judaism's encounter with American sports / Jeffrey S. Gurock.
Juicing the game : drugs, power, and the fight for the soul of Major League Baseball / Howard Bryant
Lords of the rinks : the emergence of the National Hockey League, 1875-1936 / John Chi-Kit Wong.
Muscle and manliness : the rise of sport in american boarding schools / Axel Bundgaard.
Native athletes in sport & society : a reader / edited by C. Richard King.
New perspectives on sport and 'deviance' : consumption, performativity and social control / Tony Bla
Notable sports figures / Dana Barnes, editor.
Old leather : an oral history of early pro football in Ohio, 1920-1935 / Chris Willis.
Opportunities in recreation & leisure careers / Clayne Jensen, Jay H. Taylor ; revised edition by Na
Our greatest hopes, our worst fears [videorecording] : the tragedy of the Munich Games / ABC Sports.
Out of the shadows : African American baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson : the best o
Philosophy and the sciences of exercise, health and sport : critical perspectives on research method
Power and global sport : zones of prestige, emulation, and resistance / Joseph Maguire.
Programs that work : public recreation in high risk environments / Peter A. Witt, John L. Compton, e
Protecting home : class, race, and masculinity in boys' baseball / Sherri Grasmuck ; photographs by
Qualitative methods in sports studies / edited by David L. Andrews, Daniel S. Mason and Michael L. S
Reclaiming leisure : art, sport and philosophy / Hayden Ramsay.
Redemption song : Muhammad Ali and the spirit of the sixties / Mike Marqusee.
Ring of hate : Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling : the fight of the century / Patrick Myler.
Serious games : games that educate, train and inform / David Michael, Sande Chen.
Shattering the glass : the remarkable history of women's basketball / Pamela Grundy and Susan Shacke
Shut out : a story of race and baseball in Boston / Howard Bryant.
Sport and society : history, power and culture / Graham Scambler.
Sport in consumer culture / John Horne.
Stories by Minnesota women in sports : leveling the playing field / edited by Kathleen C. Ridder wit
Synthetic worlds : the business and culture of online games / Edward Castronova.
Teachers and football : schoolboy association football in England, 1885-1915 / Colm Kerrigan.
The beginnings of a commercial sporting culture in Britain, 1793-1850 / Adrian Harvey.
The commercialisation of sport / editor Trevor Slack.
The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running : hurry, hurry has no blessing / Randy E. Mayes.
The four-minute mile [videorecording] / a Centre Films and Oliver & Sullivan production.
The global politics of sport : the role of global institutions in sport / edited by Lincoln Allison.
The great god baseball : religion in modern baseball fiction / Allen E. Hye.
The physical education curriculum / Jim L. Stillwell, Carl E. Willgoose.
The political economy of sport / edited by John Nauright and Kimberly S. Schimmel.
The primacy of movement / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone.
The proximate principle : the impact of parks, open space and water features on residential property
Twilight of the long-ball gods : dispatches from the disappearing heart of baseball / John Schulian.
When Billie beat Bobby [videorecording] / an Alliance Atlantis production in co-production with IN-m

New Journals from Taylor & Francis

The Libraries has added a new electronic journals collection from Taylor & Francis that covers many disciplines. On the publisher's Web site, you can browse journals by subject.

I just checked a few titles and I suspect the links are still being set up - so you might want to wait a few days ore more before expecting working links. But, know that these are coming soon! If I learn any tricks about access I'll update this message.

Here's the listing for:
Sports and Recreation
European Journal of Sport Science - New to Taylor & Francis for 2005
European Sport Management Quarterly - New to Routledge for 2005
International Gambling Studies
The International Journal of the History of Sport (in a MNCAT search omit initial "the")
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
Journal of Sports Sciences
Journal of Sport Tourism
Leisure Sciences
Leisure Studies
Managing Leisure
Reflective Practice
Soccer & Society
Sport, Education and Society
Sport in History - New to Routledge for 2005
Sport in Society

Enjoy!

Recent acquisitions in sports

For more information search MNCAT
1 Sport facility management : organizing events and mitigating risks / Ammon, Rob. book 2005 TC Wilson Library GV401 .A46 2005 Regular Loan

2 In the game : gay athletes and the cult of masculinity / Anderson, Eric. book 2005 TC Wilson Library GV708.8 .A43 2005 Regular Loan

3 Sport and the Irish : histories, identities, issues / Bairner, Alan. book 2005 TC Wilson Library 306.48309417 In Process

4 Strategic and performance management of Olympic sport organisations / Chappelet, J.-L.(Jean-Loup) book 2005 TC Wilson Library Quarto GV713 .C47 2005 Regular Loan

5 Human rights in youth sport : a critical review of children�s rights in competitive sports / David, Paulo, book 2005 TC Wilson Library GV709.2 .D38 2005 Regular Loan

6 Disability sport / DePauw, Karen P. book 2005 TC Wilson Library GV709.3 .D47 2005 In Process

TC Wilson Library GV709.3 .D47 2005 On Order

7 Marketing of Olympic sport organisations / Ferrand, Alain. book 2005 TC Wilson Library Quarto GV716 .F47 2005 Regular Loan

8 Female gladiators : gender, law, and contact sport in America / Fields, Sarah K., book 2005 UM MORRIS Briggs Library GV709.18.U6 F54 2005 In Process

TC Wilson Library GV709.18.U6 F54 2005 Regular Loan

9 Pop culture Arab world! : media, arts, and lifestyle / Hammond, Andrew, book 2005 TC Wilson Library DS36.88 .H357 2005 Regular Loan

10 Practical philosophy of sport and physical activity / Kretchmar, R. Scott(Robert Scott) book 2005 TC Wilson Library GV706 .K74 2005 Regular Loan

11 Principles and practice of sport management / Masteralexis, Lisa Pike. book 2005 TC Wilson Library GV713 .P75 2005 Regular Loan

12 Biomechanics of sport and exercise / McGinnis, Peter Merton, book 2005 TC Wilson Library Quarto QP303 .M36 2005 In Process

TC Wilson Library QP303 .M36 2005 On Order

13 The sport psych handbook / Murphy, Shane M., book 2005 TC Wilson Library GV706.4 .S667 2005 Regular Loan

14 Retro ball parks : instant history, baseball, and the new American city / Rosensweig, Daniel, book 2005 TC Wilson Library GV879.5 .R69 2005 In Process

TC Wilson Library GV879.5 .R69 2005 On Order

15 Adapted physical education and sport / Winnick, Joseph P. book 2005 TC Wilson Library GV445 .A3 2005 On Order

16 Berkshire encyclopedia of world sport. Levinson, David. book 200u TC Wilson Library Reference On Order

Interdisciplinary Conference

Don't miss the Publication, the Public University and the Public Interest interdisciplinary conference coming up April 19, 2005 at Coffman Union.

Excerpt:About the Conference

"Scholarship means little without publication. But the definitions of "publication" are undergoing major changes. The digital age has brought unprecedented opportunities to share research discoveries with a global audience, prompting a revolution some have compared to post-Gutenberg times. Yet as the Internet and World Wide Web have unleashed new resources and capabilities, they have also challenged the conventions of how research is published and shared. Traditional modes of publishing--print journals and books--have served scholars for decades. Today, though, scholars in some disciplines advocate making research results available through free electronic archives, and some are even suggesting that universities and funding agencies require "open access" publishing. Other new publishing genres like blogs have also been embraced by scholars.

"Featuring presentations by leading thinkers from the scholarly community..."

read the rest

Sport Discus News

SportDiscus now is coming to the U via Ebsco, the same vendor that provides us with Academic Search Premier.

It is also Find It enabled! This means Sport Discus will link to any full text articles available in Ebsco databases or via other online subscriptions, and if it doesn't find the item in full text, it will link to either MNCAT or the InterLibrary Loan request form. Read more about Find It software on the Find It FAQ.

We have also increased the number of simultaneous users from one to four, making the database more quickly accessible to you. I welcome your comments about these changes.

Title: SPORT Discus
Coverage: 1800 - present, updated monthly.
Description: The world's most comprehensive bibliographic resources for all aspects of sport and fitness. Includes Internet sites, conference papers, journal articles, unpublished papers and theses.
URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/sd.cgi

Sport Discus Product Information (pdf) from Sport Information Resource Centre in Canada.

Course Reserves

Here are a few handy links you might want to visit:
Course Reserves including information on Electronic Course Reserves.
Wilson Library Course Reserve - Information for Faculty.

CourseLib

Do you want the students in your classes to view specific library resources (online or in print)?

Consider arranging for a CourseLib page for your class.

CourseLib is a database for librarians, in consultation with faculty, to create custom-made pages for specific courses. A CourseLib page will list current links to online library resources, links to specific MNCAT records for books, and can include instructions and links for library-related assignments.

Interested?
Contact Susan Gangl, Librarian for Kinesiology and Sport Studies.

]]> See also my earlier note about CourseLib.

Information Commons open in Wilson

The Information Commons opened on the first floor of Wilson Library on November 11, and we're seeing regular and heavy use already!

For example, students compiling photos of figures in sports history can scan images and design Web pages at the Information Commons. They can write their papers using Word, compose a Power Point demo for class, research journal indexes, and read their e-mail.

After students have drafted a paper, they can consult with the Student Writing Center consultant, during the hours that service is available within the Commons. Read about The Student Writing Center Help Desk in the Wilson Information Commons.

Information Commons

The Information Commons, coming to Wilson in late October, now has a public Web page: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/undergrad/infocommons/

ERIC and E*Subscribe changes Fall 2004

College of Education Faculty--
For those of you use ERIC and E*Subscribe...

There are a number of upcoming changes in the ERIC database system as directed by the US Department of Education. These are detailed in the EDRS News section of the E*Subscribe web site ( www.edrs.com ) and this pdf: http://www.edrs.com/products/director_letter.pdf

Here are the key points--
A redesigned ERIC will be in place Sept 1 2004, with new features. The Library will continue to offer ERIC via ERIC FirstSearch and so the appearance will remain the same.
E*Subscribe, the source for downloading ERIC documents, will shut down/discontinue operations Sept 30, 2004. It will be gone. We have the ERIC documents on microfiche in the Government Publications Library here at Wilson Library. Some of the past ERIC documents may be available online in the new ERIC and others will not be. (No one likes using microfiche!)
No new ERIC fiche will be produced. We've received our last shipment!
In place of the ED/ERIC document on microfiche of the past, for the future "ERIC will introduce, for the first time, free-of-charge full text non-journal ERIC resources". The mechanism for this has not been specified.
This move to the new redesigned ERIC has been a long, difficult, and political process. Librarians and others have been active advocates on various issues related to this during the past few years with mixed results.

As a separate matter, as soon as the link is set up, this year we will offer access to ERIC with both ERIC FirstSearch and ERIC CSA for your use on the library web pages. (Same database...different vendor interface...different search features...see what works best for you). A year from now to save money, we may need to switch to ERIC CSA only given cost differences.

Laurel Haycock, Ph.D., Librarian for Education, Psychology,
and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Idea Exchange

Benefit from your colleagues' expertise and insights!

The Idea Exchange is a collection of teaching ideas that will help your students develop better research and writing skills. The Exchange is designed to save you time and lighten your workload. It's adaptable across disciplines and levels of undergraduate instruction and all the materials in it are available for you to duplicate or adapt.

More Tools for Your Students

If your students could benefit from a occasional gentle reminder about assignment deadlines, suggest Assignment Calculator to help them plan their progress through library assignments and discover the best resources to help them complete their work.

There is also a handy Virtual Tour of Wilson Library in case they haven't ventured over to West Bank very often. I will get that updated to include the Information Commons, coming in October to the first floor of Wilson.

Information Commons

Wilson Library is getting ready to offer a new service designed primarily for undergraduate students. It will be called the Information Commons and will be located on the first floor of Wilson.

More information coming soon!

Fall Semester!

It's that hectic time of year when you're getting ready for your courses. If you plan to include a library component, feel free to contact me. I can put together a tailor-made CourseLib page for your class. View the courses that already have a page at CourseLib for courses beginning with the letter K.

For basic information introduce your students to Research QuickStart and set the subject menu on one of the following:
Education
Physical Education, Recreation and Kinesiology
Sports Medicine
or any subject that applies to your course.

If you would like me to meet with your class, contact me at least a week in advance so I can see if my schedule is open during class time. Send me a copy of your syllabus and information about any library-related assignments you have in mind. We can discuss whether you'd like the class to come to the library or if you'd prefer to have me visit in your regular classroom.