The National Sporting Library is a state-of-the-art, non-lending research facility dedicated to the world of horse sports, shooting, and fishing. It is open to the public and admission is free.

Its 17,000-book collection covers a wide range of horse and field sports, including foxhunting, Thoroughbred racing, dressage, eventing, steeplechasing, polo, coaching, shooting, and angling. Over 4,000 rare books from the sixteenth century onwards are housed in the F. Ambrose Clark Rare Book Room. In addition to books, the Library owns important manuscript, archives, and periodicals relating to field sports, and also features an audiovisual center that stores nonprint materials, including films, videos, and DVDs. The John H. Daniels Fellowship program supports the research of visiting scholars. The Library hosts temporary art exhibitions and holds many fine works of sporting art, including paintings, sculpture, works-on-paper, and sporting artifacts in its permanent collection. Two galleries in the National Sporting Museum opened next door to the Library on January 1, 2009, and a new addition to the museum will open in late 2010.

Consider joining the Ivy Circle or Chairman's Council in support of the National Sporting Library.
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The National Sporting Library
102 The Plains Road
P.O. Box 1335
Middleburg, Virginia 20118-1335
Tel. (540) 687-6542
Fax (540) 687-8540

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