Community & Leisure

Shetland Coaching Resource Centre

The Shetland Coaching Resource Centre is based in the Learning Centre of Shetland Library and stocks a wide range of materials relating to sports coaching – including textbooks, CD-ROMs, DVDs and videos. These resources aim to support local coaches working with sportspeople by broadening their knowledge base and improving their coaching skills.

The materials available cover generic issues such as fitness training, sports nutrition, sports injuries and mental skills as well as specific sports, such as football, netball, badminton etc. A list of items stocked in the Coaching Centre is available here.

For the current availability of items in the Coaching Centre, as well as other items in the main library in the fields of sport, recreation and physical activity, please search the complete online Library Catalogue at http://library.shetland.gov.uk/TalisPrism/

The Coaching Resource Centre forms part of an ongoing strategy to increase the profile of coach education in Shetland. The resources provided in the centre will support the delivery of SportsCoach UK coach education courses, which will be run in Shetland in the future. For more information on the work of SportsCoach UK please look up – www.sportscoachuk.org

The Centre has been established by the Community Development Service of Shetland Islands Council and hopes to provide materials covering a wide range of sporting interests and topics.  If you have any queries, comments or requests for coaching materials that you would like to see stocked, please contact either:

Shetland Library
Lower Hillhead, Lerwick
01595 693868

Sports Development Officer
Community Development Service
Hayfield House, Lerwick
01595 744006