This guide highlights some of the more significant basketball-related materials held in the Joyce Sports Research Collection, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries. It does not include basketball materials held elsewhere in the Hesburgh Libraries, or in Notre Dame's University Archives. Its purpose is to provide researchers with a convenient overview of Special Collections' resources in this subject area; it does not aspire to be comprehensive. Items listed in these finding aids do not circulate; they may be requested and consulted in Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library, from 9:30am to 4:30pm weekdays.
Researchers interested in materials specifically relating to basketball at Notre Dame should contact University Archives, 607 Hesburgh Library.
The Joyce Sports Research Collection houses many monographs relating to basketball. All genres of basketball books are represented, including fiction. All items may be discovered in the Libraries' online catalog.
Title or collection descriptions on this page are linked to records, inventories, catalog records and other appropriate types of finding aid when available. The dates that follow many of the annual and periodical titles on this page indicate the span of years a given title was published; available holdings are indicated in the linked finding aid or catalog record. Questions concerning the materials on the page may be directed to the curator of the Joyce Sports Research Collection.
For a description of manuscripts and archival collections relating to basketball held in RBSC, please see The Joyce Sports Research Collection: Manuscripts (Basketball).