Book reviews

IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF REFERENCE SERVICE FOR GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS. McClure, Charles R. and Hernon, Peter. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1983, 284 pp., $35.00.

INFORMATION ECONOMICS AND POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES. Rubin, Michael Rogers. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1983, $35.00.

VIDEOTEX PROJECT REVIEWS II. Widing, Robert E. and Talarzyk, W. Wayne. Dublin, OH: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 1983, 115 pp., $6.00.

BILINGUAL EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT 1983; INCLUDING AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1983, $45.00.

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES FOR HANDICAPPED INDIVIDUALS, SECOND EDITION. Wright, Keith and Davie, Judith. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1983, 184 pp., $20.00.

MAGAZINES FOR CHILDREN: A GUIDE FOR PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND LIBRARIANS. Richardson, Selma K. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1983, 147 pp., $12.50 paper.

DICTIONARIES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS. Prepared by the Reference Books Bulletin Editorial Board, American Library Association. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1983, 38 pp., $1.95.

BACK TO BOOKS: 200 LIBRARY ACTIVITIES TO ENCOURAGE READING. Marshall, Karen K. McFarland, 1983, 138 pp., $12.95.

UNION CATALOGUES OF SERIALS: GUIDELINES FOR CREATION AND MAINTENANCE, WITH RECOMMENDED STANDARDS FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND HOLDINGS CONTROL. Whiffen, Jean. New York: The Haworth Press, 1983, 138 pp., $14.95.

THE ALA GLOSSARY OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE. Edited by Young, Heartsill. Chicago, 1L: American Library Association, 1983, 261 pp., $50.00.

THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE DICTIONARY, SECOND EDITION, REVISED. Edited by Beckman, Erik. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press, 1983, 247 pp., $22.95; $16.95 paper.

GUIDE TO RESEARCH ON NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Hirschfelder, Arlene B.; Byler, Mary Gloyne; and Dorris, Michael A. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1983, 330 pp., $75.00.

ANNIVERSARIES AND HOLIDAYS. Gregory, Ruth. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1983, 262 pp., $20.00.     

Book reviews

Michael Brian Schiffer. The Portable Radio in American Life. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991.

Michael C. Keith and Joseph M. Krause. The Radio Station (third edition). Boston: Focal Press, 1993.

Robert L. Hilliard and Michael C. Keith. The Broadcast Century: A Biography of American Broadcasting. Boston: Focal Press, 1992.

Bruce Siegel. Creative Radio Production. Boston: Focal Press, 1992.

Lewis B. O'Donnell, Philip Benoit and Carl Hausman. Modern Radio Production (third edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993.

Daniel Mark Epstein. Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993.

Ty Ford. Advanced Audio Production Techniques. Stoneham, MA: Butterworth‐Heinemann, 1993.     

Race,whiteness, "lightness," and relevance: African American and European American interpretations of Jump Start and The Boondocks

African American and European American participants were interviewed about two syndicated comic strips written by and featuring African Americans: Jump Start, a comic strip that portrays African Americans in a normative middle-class family narrative and focuses only occasionally on racial issues, and The Boondocks, a comic strip that focuses frequently on racial issues. The African American groups interpreted the comic strips through the terministic screen of race cognizance, through which racial politics and oppression were highly relevant. Almost all of the European American participants, however, interpreted the comic strips through the terministic screen of Whiteness, through which racial politics and oppression were not relevant.     

Standpoint: Wither communication?

Dennis, E. E., & Wartella, E. (Eds.). (1996). American communication research: The remembered history. Mulwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lent, J. A. (Ed.). (1995). A different road taken: Profiles in critical communication. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Schiller, D. (1996). Theorizing communication: A history. New York: Oxford.

Signorielli, N. (Ed.). (1996). Women in communication: A biographical sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood.     

21st Century Anthropology Scholarship: A Citation Analysis

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A 2017 citation study looked at four scholarly anthropology journals in order to evaluate current research trends. This study examined the following journals: Current Anthropology, the American Anthropologist, the American Ethnologist, and the Journal of Anthropological Research. The results showed an average of 89.9 citations per article, which is a large increase over previous studies. The breakdown by the largest two categories showed 48.1% citations to total books, compared to 41.2% for scholarly journals. All other source types of citations comprised only 10.7% of total citations. These results were compared to a 2005 study by William Robinson and Paul Posten of the same four journals from 1999.     

BOOK/RESOURCE REVIEWS

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NORTON ON ARCHIVES: THE WRITINGS OF MARGARET CROSS NORTON ON ARCHIVAL & RECORDS MANAGEMENT (Third printing, 2001). Mitchell, Thornton W. (Ed.). Chicago: Society of American Archivists, c1975. Reviewed by Debora A. Rougeux

SAMPLE FORMS FOR ARCHIVAL AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS. Ginn, Mary Lea (Consulting Ed.). Lenexa, Kansas and Chicago: ARMA International and Society of American Archivists, 2002, 264 pp. + CD. $40.00, ISBN 1-931786-00-3. Reviewed by Chuck Piotrowski

ARCHIVES, LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS: CONVERGENCE ARCHIVES, BIBLIOTHÉQUES ET MUSÈES. Witt, Maria, and Majid Ihadjadene (Eds.). European Library Automation Group (ELAG), 2000. Paris: Citè des sciences et de l'industrie, 2001, 445 pp., ISBN 2-86842-146-6. Reviewed by Amy Cooper     

Among the eminent,the aspiring,and the young: A short history of new world writing

New World Writing, a magazine founded by New American Library in 1952, quickly became an important vehicle for liberal intellectual and literary thought. In addition to providing an outlet for new writing, the magazine became an important acquisitions tool for NAL. Throughout its lifetime, New World Writing remained a showcase for many of the finest writers of the 1950s, including Christopher Isherwood, Louis Auchincloss, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac, and Gore Vidal. He is the author of Under Cover: An Illustrated History of American Mass Market Paperbacksand Heavy Traffic and High Culture: The New American Library as Literary Gatekeeper. He is working on a study of American literary agents     

Loci sigilli and American Indian treaties: Reflections on the creation of volume 2 of Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

The presence–or absence–of locus sigilli “[L.S.]” or “[SEAL]” indicators, to validate the signatures in those texts of American Indian treaties collated by Charles J. Kappler in his Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, is examined. The results of this inquiry suggest that Kappler spent far more time examining the original treaty documents than Deloria and DeMallie proposed in their Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775–1979.     

REVIEWS AND REMARKS

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PROTECTING LIBRARY STAFF, USERS, COLLECTIONS, AND FACILITIES: A HOW-TO-DO-IT MANUAL. Cravey, Pamela. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2001, (How-To-Do-It Manuals for librarians, number 103), 175 pp., $55.00, 1-55570-392-5. Reviewed by Robert Burger

USABILITY TESTING FOR LIBRARY WEBSITES: AHANDS-ON GUIDE. Elaina Norlin and CM! Winters. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002, 69 pp., $32.00, 0-8389-3511-7. Reviewed by Carol Goodson

COPYRIGHT ESSENTIALS FOR LIBRARIANS AND EDUCATORS. Crews, Kenneth D. Chicago: American Library Association, 2000, 143 pp., $56.25, 0-8389-0797-0. Reviewed by Linda Collins

LIBRARY OFF-SITE SHELVING: GUIDE FOR HIGH-DENSITY FACILITIES. Nitecki, Danuta and Curtis L. Kendrick, eds. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 2001, 241 pp., $60.00, 1-5208-885-1. Reviewed by Joan Stein

TIME MANAGEMENT, PLANNING, AND PRIORITIZATION FOR LIBRARIANS. Siess, Judith A. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002, 214 pp., bibl, index, forms, 0-8108-4438-9. Reviewed by Gregg Sapp     

“Go,little book ...”: Getting a book to readers

An author, editor, agent, marketing director, and bookseller describe in turn how one book—Facing the Music: Short Stories by Larry Brown—made the journey from a writer's brain to readers' brains. Larry Brown is the author of two novels,Dirty Work andJoe, and two short-story collections,Facing the Music andBig Bad Love. His next book,On Fire, is a nonfiction account of his experiences in the Oxford, Mississippi, Fire Department. Liz Darhansoff is a literary agent with Darhansoff and Verrill Literary Agency, New York. Richard Howorth is an Oxford bookseller who serves on theParis Review's Booksellers' Advisory Board, the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Board of Directors of the American Booksellers Association. He chairs the ABA's Publisher Relations Committee and in 1986 was awarded the Charles S. Haslam Award for excellence in bookselling. Shannon Ravenel is editorial director of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and the editor of its annualNew Stories from, the South. From 1977 to 1990 she was series editor forBest American Short Stories, and she editedThe Best American Short Stories of the Eighties. Ina Stern is marketing director of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.     

BOOK REVIEW

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LAW LIBRARIANSHIP: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES. Gasaway, Laura N. and Michael G. Chiorazzi, eds. American Association of Law Libraries, 1996, 639 pp. Reviewed by Terry A. Cullen     

A future for the journal

Huston, A.C., Donnerstein, E., Fairchild, H., Feshbach, N.D., Katz, P.A., Murray, J.P., Rubinstein, E.A., Wilcox, B.L., &; Zuckerman, D. (1992). Big world, small screen: The role of television in American society. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 195 pages.

Blumler, J.G. (Ed.). (1992). Television and the public interest: Vulnerable values in West European broadcasting. London: Sage. 242 pages.

Dayan, D., &; Katz, E. (1992). Media events: The live broadcasting of history. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 306 pages.     

BOOK/RESOURCE REVIEWS

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HOME MOVIES: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDUSTRY, 1897-1979. Katelle, Allan. Nashua, NH: Transition Publishing, c2000. Reviewed by Erika Briana Gorder

AMIA COMPENDIUM OF MOVING IMAGE CATALOGING PRACTICE. Martin, Abigail Leab (Ed.). Written and compiled by AMIA Cataloging and Documentation Committee's Subcommittee for the Compendium of Cataloging Practice. Beverly Hills, CA: Association of Moving Image Archivists; Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2001. Reviewed by Erika Briana Gorder     

Book review

Abelman, B. (1995). Reclaiming the wasteland: TV & gifted children. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Neuman, S. B. (1995). Literacy in the television age: The myth of the TV effect (2nd ed.). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Strasburger, V. C. (1995). Adolescents and the media: Medical and psychological impact. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Harrison, L. F., & Williams, T. M. (1986). Television and cognitive development. In T. M. Williams (Ed.), The impact of television: A natural experiment in three communities (pp. 87–142). Orlando, FL: Academic Press.

Lehr, W. (Ed.). (1995). Quality and reliability of telecommunications infrastructure. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Teske, R. (Ed.). (1995). American regulatory federalism and telecommunications Infrastructure. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.     

PROFESSIONAL MATERIALS

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THE LIBRARIAN'S INTERNET SURVIVAL GUIDE: STRATEGIES FOR THE HIGH-TECH REFERENCE DESK. McDermott, Irene. Barbara Quint, Ed. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2002, 267 pp., $29.50, ISBN 157387129X. Reviewed by Gwyneth Crowley.

MAGIC & HYPERSYSTEMS: CONSTRUCTING THE INFORMATIONSHARING LIBRARY. Billings, Harold. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002, 147 pp., $38.00, ISBN 0838908349. Reviewed by Barbara E. Kemp.

STARTING AND OPERATING LIVE VIRTUAL REFERENCE SERVICES: A HOW-TO-DO-IT MANUAL FOR LIBRARIANS. Meola, Mark, and Sam Stormont. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2002, 167 pp., $59.95, ISBN 1555704441. Reviewed by Marla Wallace.     

REVIEWS

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PREPARING THE INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL: AN AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE. Sajjad Ur Rehman. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000, ISBN 0-313-30673-7. Reviewed by Isabel Espinal.

DEVELOPING AND MANAGING ELECTRONIC JOURNAL COLLECTIONS: A HOW-TO-DO-IT MANUAL FOR LIBRARIANS (How To Do It Manual for Librarians, No. 102). Donnelyn Curtis, Virginia M. Scheschy, and Adolfo R. Tarango. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2000, ISBN 1-55570-383-6. Reviewed by Andrew Osmond.

FUNDAMENTAL REFERENCE SOURCES, 3rd Ed. James H. Sweet-land. Chicago: American Library Association, 2001, ISBN 0-8389-0780-6. Reviewed by Selma C. Etter.     

Book/video reviews

John R. Catsis. Sports Broadcasting . Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1996.

Ralph Engelman. Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996.

Marc J. Seifer. Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla . Secaucus, NJ: Birch Lane Press, 1996.

How to Construct a Radio Documentary (CD‐Rom). Concord, Ontario: Irwin Publishing, 1996.

Paul Chantler and Sim Harris. Local Radio Journalism . Oxford: Focal Press, 1997.

Donald G. Godfrey and Frederic A. Leigh, (Eds.). Historical Dictionary of American Radio, Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Nancy Lynch Street and Marilyn J. Matelski, (Eds.). Messages From the Underground: Transnational Radio in Resistance and in Solidarity . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Michael Nelson. War of Vie Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War . Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997.

Radio Industry (video). New York: Insight Media, 1997. 30 minutes, color.     

BOOK REVIEWS

TO FREE THE MIND: LIBRARIES, TECHNOLOGY, AND INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM. Oboler, Eli M. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1983, (137 pp.,) $15.00.

THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY: THE PROMISE AND THE PROCESS. Dowlin, Kenneth E. New York: Neal‐Schuman Publishers, (Applications in Information Management and Technology Series.), 1984, 212 pp., $24.95.

A READER ON CHOOSING AN AUTOMATED LIBRARY SYSTEM. Joseph R. Matthews, Editor. Chicago: American Library Association, 1983, 390 pp., $35.00.

ONLINE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; USE AND OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS, LIMITATIONS, AND DESIGN ALTERNATIVES. Gerri, Brenda. Arlington, VA.: Information Resources Press, 1983, 230 pp., $24.50.

REFERENCE SOURCES IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES: A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE. Purcell, Gary R. and Schlachter, Gail Ann. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC‐Clio Information Services, 1984, 359 pp., $45.00.

PERSUASIVE PUBLIC RELATIONS FOR LIBRARIES. Kathleen Kelly Rummel and Esther Perica, Editors. 1983, 199 pp., $20 paper.

DICTIONARY OF LIBRARY AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY. 2nd ED. REVISED AND EXPANDED. Kenyon C. Rosenberg. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1983, 197 pp., $24.50.

FICTION, 1876–1983: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF UNITED STATES EDITIONS, 2 VOLS. New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1983, 1053 &; 2328 pp., $99.50.

BOOKS OUT OF PRINT, 1980–1983. 2 VOLS. New York: R. R. Bowker 1983, $59.00.

READING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA. Dorsett, Cora Matheny, Regional Editor. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1983, vii, 150 pp., $15.00.

INTERNATIONAL BOOK COLLECTORS ALMANAC/ NEWSLETTER. J. H. Raymond, Editor. Vol. 1, Issue 1, February, 1984. Vashon Island, WA: Pegasus Publishers, Inc. 10 issues/yr., 24 pp., $36.00.

USING COPYRIGHTED VIDEOCASSETTES IN CLASSROOMS AND LIBRARIES. Miller, Jerome K. Champaign, IL: Copyright Information Services, 1984, 92 pp., $10.00.     

REVIEWS

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ABRIDGED DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION AND RELATIVE INDEX. Devised by Melvil Dewey. Ed. 13. Edited by Joan S. Mitchell, editor, and Julianne Beall, Winston E. Matthews, Jr., and Gregory R. New, assistant editors. Albany, NY: Forest Press, 1997. Hi, 1023 p. + booklet (Relocations and Reductions, Comparative Tables, Equivalence Tables, Reused Numbers). $90.00. ISBN 0-9J0603-59-8.

ABRIDGED 13 WORKBOOK; FOR SMALL LIBRARIES USING DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION ABRIDGED EDITION 13. By Sydney W. Davis and Gregory R. New. Albany, NY: Forest Press, 1997. ix, 71 p. $20.00. ISBN 0-910608-61-X. Reviewed by Jim Cole, Editor.

BOOKS AND PERIODICALS ONLINE: A DIRECTORY OF ONLINE PUBLICATIONS. Edited by Nuchine Nobari. Washington, DC: Library Technology Alliance, ISSN 0951-838X.-1997 ed. $350.00. ISBN0-9630277-3-5. Reviewed by Molaan K. Mosell.

THE FUTURE OF DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGING RULES. Edited by Brian E. C. Schottlaender. (ALCTS Papers on Library Technical Services and Collections, no. 6) Chicago: American Library Association, 1998. vii, 135p. $28.00. ISBN0-8389-3477-3. Reviewed by Margaret Mering.

OUTSOURCING LIBRARY TECHNICAL SERVICES OPERATIONS: PRACTICES IN ACADEMIC, PUBLIC, AND SPECIAL LIBRARIES. Edited by Karen A. Wilson and Marylou Colver. Chicago: American Library Association, 1997. xxi, 239 p. ISBN 0-8389-0703-2. Reviewed by Bruce R. Kingma.     

Courtroom coverage: The effects of being televised

The Soap Opera, Muriel G. Cantor and Suzanne Pingree (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1983), 167 pp., $17.50/ $9.95.

Life on Daytime Television: Tuning‐in American Serial Drama, Mary Cassata and Thomas Skill (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1983), 214pp., $28.50/$15.95.

Milestones in Mass Communication Research, Shearon Lowery and Melvin L. DeFleur (New York: Longman, 1983), 398 pp., $24.95/$12.95.

Television Production, 2d ed., Alan Wurtzel (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1983), 632 pp., $26.95.

Television Production Handbook, 4th ed., Herbert Zettl (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1984), 614 pp., $26.95.

Blacks and White TV: Afro‐Americans in Television Since 1948, J. Fred MacDonald (Chicago: Nelson‐Hall, 1983), 288 pp., $23.95/$11.95.

Images of Nurses on Television, Philip A. Kalisch, Beatrice J. Kalisch and Margaret Scobey (New York: Springer Publishing, 1983), 214 pp., $22.50.

Prime Time Crime: Criminals and Law Enforcers in TV Entertainment, Linda S. Lichter and S. Robert Lichter (Washington, DC: The Media Institute 1983), 64 pp., $5.95.

Television Programming Across National Boundaries: The EBU and OIRT Experience, Ernest Eugster (Dedham, MA: Artech House, 1983), 238 pp., $50.00.