COLLECTION AREA
Recreation
GENERAL PURPOSE
The collection supports instructional and extra-curricular interests of students, faculty and staff in many areas of sports and recreation.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE PROGRAM
The fund is not affiliated with a specific academic program at Dartmouth but serves in an adjunct capacity for several subject areas. Examples include biographical works, and materials on the sociology, psychology , economics or history of sports and recreation; works related to sports medicine, nutrition and training are also collected. In addition works that represent the extra curricular interests of students are collected. For many years Dartmouth had a nationally recognized collection of skiing literature reflecting the influence of Dartmouth graduates in the growth of alpine or downhill skiing in the United States. Dartmouth continues to collect in this area but at a much lower level. Works about specific team and individual sports (i.e. baseball, football, tennis, ) and in activities such as hiking, mountaineering/climbing, sailing, and chess are also collected.
GENERAL SUBJECT BOUNDARIES
Recreation materials fall primarily with the Library of Congress classification GV. Sport history, works on the business, psychological, or medical (RC 1200) aspects of recreation may class in those subject areas. Earlier holdings are primarily in the Dewey classes 796 - 799. Materials relating to Dance fall within the GV classification, SEE: Performing Arts collection development policy for information on collecting patterns. Generally, narrow technical or scientific studies are not collected.
LANGUAGES
English is the primary language of the collection. No languages are excluded.
TYPES OF MATERIAL COLLECTED
Monographs, periodicals, maps, indexes and abstracts, bibliographies, directories, yearbooks, and encyclopedias are collected.
FORMAT OF MATERIALS COLLECTED
The majority of material is in printed form. Retrospective serial runs are also purchased in microform.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS
The College Archives contains a large body of material pertaining to College athletics. The collection consists of photographs, programs, manuscripts, personal papers, memorabilia books (scrapbooks), realia, and miscellaneous published reports. The White Mountain collection contains books, pamphlets, guides, photographs, prints, music manuscripts, and miscellaneous materials relating to all aspects of the region. For the purposes of this collection the Whtie Mountain region is the area from the White Mountains Range and the White Mountains National Forest on the north, to and including Mount Cardigan on the south, but not including Mount Kearsarge. The recreational aspects of the collection include skiing, hiking, camping, climbing, and material relating to the grand hotels and resorts that once existed.
OTHER RESOURCES AVAILABLE
The Dartmouth Outing Club has a small collection of material related to outdoor programs. It is not a very active collection and the DOC is satisfied to have the Library collect in this area. There are no additional resources on a local or regional level which affect collection activity.
OTHER RELATED COLLECTION POLICIES
Related collection development policies include:
Economics
History
Medical Sciences
Psychology
Sociology
Creation Date
September 1993, (Francis Oscadal)
Revision Date
October 1999, (Francis Oscadal)
LC Class
GV
Bibliographer
Francis Oscadal
List of URLS
Economics policy
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cmdc/cdp/economics.html
History policy
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cmdc/cdp/history.html
Medical Sciences
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cmdc/cdp/medicalsci.html
Performing Arts
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cmdc/cdp/performing.html
Psychology policy
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cmdc/cdp/psychology.html
Sociology policy
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cmdc/cdp/sociology.html
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