| Bell, Daniel. | |
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Encyclopedia of International Games. |
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| Location: General/Humanities Reference Collection, Trustees Reading Room (DR) | |
| Call Number: GV721 .B45 2003 | |
| Focusing on international multi-sport competitions held since 1896, this source provides a historical summary and statistical information for these competitions. | |
| Mallon, Bill with Ian Buchanan. | |
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Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement. |
| 3rd ed. |
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| Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC) | |
| Call Number: GV721.5 .B83 2006 | |
| Enfield, Stan Greenberg. | |
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The Guinness Book of Olympics Facts and Feats. |
| Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives, 1983. | |
| Location: | |
| Call Number: GV721.8 .G74 | |
| This resources includes illustrated entries for each Olympic summer or winter game held from 1896 to 1984, providing such information as numbers of countries in attendance and of participating male and female athletes, final medal counts by country, and a summary of significant highlights. Individual sporting events are also profiled, where researchers can find information on the history of the event in the Olympics and lists of medal winners. | |
| Findling, John E. and Kimberly D. Pelle, eds. | |
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Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement. |
| Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2004. | |
| Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC) | |
| Call Number: GV721.5 .H546 2004 | |
| Includes essays on each summer and winter Olympic game from 1896 to the 2002 Salt Lake City games, with detailed a bibliography following each essay. There are also a number of appendices on such topics as the International Olympic Committee and its members, the relationship between the games and television, Olympic feature films, Internet sources, and an extensive general bibliography. | |
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Olympic Impact Statements |
| (various publishers) | |
| Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC) | |
| Call Number: GV721.5 .O495 | |
| Olympic impact statements for Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992, Lillehammer 1994, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, and London 2012. | |
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Journal of Olympic History |
| Location: ONLINE | |
| Call Number: http://www.aafla.org/5va/joh_frmst.htm | |
| Mallon, Bill. | |
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The Olympics: A Bibliography. |
| New York: Garland Pub., 1984. | |
| Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC) | |
| Call Number: Z7514.O5 M35 1984s | |
| Olderr, Steven, ed. | |
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The Pan American Games: A Statistical History, 1951-1999. |
| Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland & Co., 2003. | |
| Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC) | |
| Call Number: GV722.5.P3 053 2003 | |
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Olympic Research Symposium Proceedings |
| Location: ONLINE | |
| Call Number: http://www.aafla.org/5va/proceedingsicos_frmst.htm | |
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Olympic Review and Revue Olympique |
| Location: ONLINE | |
| Call Number: http://www.aafla.org/5va/review_frmst.htm | |
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Olympika |
| [London, Ont.]: Centre for Olympic Studies, 1992- | |
| Location: Firestone Library | |
| Call Number: GV721.5 .O6 | |
| Periodical of sociological and cultural research concerning the modern Olympic games and the Olympic movement. | |
| Page, James A. | |
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Black Olympian Medalists |
| Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1991. | |
| Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC) | |
| Call Number: GV697.A1 P284 1991 | |
| Wallechinsky, David. | |
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The Complete Book of the Olympics. |
| New York: Viking Press, 1984. | |
| Location: General/Humanities Reference Collection, Trustees Reading Room (DR) | |
| Call Number: GV721.5 .W25 1984 | |
| Wallechinsky lists the top four to eight finishers and their times or scores for each event in the summer and winter Olympics from 1896 to 1980, additionally summarizing and describing each race or game. | |
| Wallechinsky, David. | |
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The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics. |
| 1994 ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993. | |
| Location: General/Humanities Reference Collection, Trustees Reading Room (DR) | |
| Call Number: GV841.5 .W26 1993 | |
| Arranged according to sporting event, this resource gives a brief history and description of each event and records the top eight men and women placers, along with their times and scores, for each Olympic year from the time the event was included in the Olympics through 1992 winter games. |
General Biographical Resources
Official Olympic Reports (courtesty of LA84 Foundation)
Olympic Dates (courtesty of Library of Congress)
International Olympic Committee
Olympic Results Database (International Olympic Committee)
Mega-Events and Olympics (Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions)