A True Team Effort: The Baylor University Libraries Athletics Archive

“A Lot of Flexibility within the Structure”: Academic Library Collection Development & E-Resources Management from an Athletics Perspective

“…Academic libraries have an established history of collaborating with their institutions' athletics departments in order to provide academic and research support to student-athletes. However, while examples of libraries engaging in outreach and providing academic support to student-athletes (Caniano, 2015;Davidson & Peyton, 2007;Sapp & Vaughan, 2017), developing specific collections pertaining to athletics (Ames, 2012;Gustafson & Meese, 2016), and even offering exercise equipment in their buildings (Hoppenfeld, Graves, Sewell & Halling, 2019) are fairly common in the literature, I believe that describing how athletics has influenced the professional work of an academic librarian is unique.…”