Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature / Edition 3

by Jo A. Cates

Overview

Jourbanalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature is a critically annotated bibliographic guide to print and electronic sources in print and broadcast jourbanalism. The first edition was published in 1990; the second in 1997. It has been described as one of the critical reference sources in jourbanalism today, and it is a key bibliographic guide to the literature. Choice magazine called it a benchmark publication for which there are no comparable sources. The format is similar to the second edition. What makes this edition significantly different is the separation of Commercial Databases and Internet Resources. Commercial Databases includes standard fee-based resources. The new chapter on Internet sources features Web-based resources not included in the commercial databases chapter as well as portals, other online files, listservs, newsgroups, and Web logs/blogs. All chapters have been revised, and there are significant revisions in Directories, Yearbooks, and Collections; Miscellaneous Sources; Core Periodicals; Societies and Associations; and Research Centers and Archives. The second edition has 789 entries. The third edition contains almost 1,000 entries. James Carey of Columbia University, who provided the foreword for the first two editions, has updated his foreword for this edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591580614
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/2004
Series:	Reference Sources in the Humanities
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

JO A. CATES is Director of the library at Columbia College Chicago, a school for the arts and the media. She has been Regional Research Manager of Ernst and Young's Center for Business Knowledge in Chicago, former Head of the Transportation Library at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and former Chief Librarian of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has an undergraduate degree in Jourbanalism from Boston University and an M.S. in Library Science from Simmons College.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Bibliographies and Bibliographic Guides
Encyclopedias
Dictionaries
Indexes and Abstracts
Selected Commercial Databases
Selected Internet Sources
Biographical Sources
Directories, Yearbooks, and Collections
Handbook, Manuals, and Career Guides
Stylebooks
Catalogs
Miscellaneous Sources
Core Periodicals
Societies and Associations
Selected Centers, Archives, and Media Institutes
Author/Title Index
Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

This is not merely a guidebook to journalism books, but a comprehensive, up-to-date, annotated source on where to find answers to most questions about journalism, mostly concentrating on newspaper and broadcast news. The author, who is the chief librarian at the respected Poynter Institute for Media Studies (and an LJ book reviewer), suggests reference books (including bibliographies, encyclopedias, and dictionaries), indexes, computer databases, manuals (including handbooks and stylebooks), catalogs, and guides to microform collections. She also includes guidelines on 50 ``core publications'' in the field, 75 major and 100 minor journalistic societies and associations, and 100 research centers, archives, and media institutions. The annotations supply sufficient information to help a researcher decide on whether to follow through on a lead. Recommended for every media collection.-- Abraham Z. Bass, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb

Library Journal

An annotated bibliography and guide to the reference literature from the late 1960s to the present. It examines some 1,000 titles and sources with descriptive and evaluative annotations. Covers bibliographies, encyclopedias, dictionaries, abstracts, indexes, databases, biographical sources, directories and yearbooks, handbooks and stylebooks, core periodicals, professional organizations, associations, and research centers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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