The Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Exercise and Sport Science Microform Publications (HPER) microforms collection is composed of theses and dissertations in health, physical education, recreation, exercise and sport sciences, sport history, and sport-related issues in the humanities and social sciences and dance. There are 10,000 titles in the complete collection. It covers fifty years of graduate research. The theses and dissertations are compiled primarily from universities in the United States and Canada. This collection is published by the University of Oregon, International Institute for Sport and Human Performance. Bell Library owns publications from this collection from 1949 to 1987.

Access to the HPER collection is provided through the library's online catalog, Portal, and through a set of indices that are contained on microfiche.

The first step in using the HPER collection is to find the author's name. Portal can be used for author, title, subject and keyword searches. By entering a word combination such as "baseball and microform" a researcher could find several publications that are in the HPER collection. The resulting Portal records for any HPER materials contain the authors' names as well as call numbers. The call numbers are not used in the arrangement of the physical microforms but they do contain useful information. Each call number starts with HPER. In the next segment are letters that identify the subject matter of the material. For example, HE stands for heath, PE stands for physical education, and PSY pertains to psychological matters.

The microfiche indices are author and subject indices. These microfiche indices are located in the front of the file cabinet in which the rest of the collection is held. There are five volumes of indices that cover progressive years of the collection. Determined researchers may use these indices but Portal contains most of the information necessary for locating a particular publication.

The HPER microfiche are located in one file cabinet in the microform area. The microfiche are filed alphabetically by the author's last name. Please feel free to ask for assistance in setting up the microform readers. Operating instructions are posted next to the readers for the convenience of patrons.

Microform copies are 10 cents per page copied. Make sure to deposit your money in the coinbox attached to the microform reader. From that point on pressing the print button on the microform reader will make copies of the viewed materials. The printer located underneath the microform reader must be turned on. An attendant in the Periodicals Department will be able to assist if necessary. Alternatively, a person could print off of one of the research computers if the item was on the Internet.

Please place the microfilm in the small return box on the table next to the microform readers

We invite questions and/or comments and look forward to hearing from you. Contact Sarah Sutton at Sarah.Sutton@tamucc.edu.

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Webpage revised on 09/24/2009