Labor Relations and the Sports Industry: Find Books

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• Request delivery of Rutgers books that are not in your local campus library by the Book Delivery/Recall or Book Special Request option in QuickSearch. 
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The Library catalog is the gateway to all information resources located in the Rutgers University Libraries.  Use keywords--Title Keyword or Subject Keyword-- to search for the appropriate materials.  Some examples:

• Baseball and Labor Unions
• Sports and Economics
• Labor Relations and Basketball

The most effective way to search for books is to use the subject headings assigned to each topic, company, or person. Below is a list of subject headings that are related to the sports industry. 

• Baseball players--Labor Unions--United States
• Baseball--Economic aspects
• Collective Bargainng--Baseball
• Sports Administration
• Sports--Economic Aspects

These examples use 'Baseball"; you should of course substitute your target sport when doing a subject heading search.

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