Foreign Media Systems

Conferences, proceedings of three recent international telecommunications

Yves de la Haye, ed. Marx and Engles on the Means of Communication (International General, P.O. Box 350, New York, N.Y. 10013---$4.50 or £2.25, paper)

David Hargreaves' Adult Literacy and Broadcasting: The BBC's Experience (London: Frances Pinter/New York: Nichols, 1980---$22.50)

Christopher Bagley and Gajendra K. Verma's Racial Prejudice, the Individual and Society (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books/Farnborough: Saxon House, 1979--- $19.00)

David Morley's The Nationwide Audience: Structure and Deconding (British Film Institute, 127 Charing Cross Rd., London WC2H oEA---£.2.95 or about $$7.50, paper)

Barbara Coulton's Louis MacNeice in the BBC (London: Faber and Faber/Lawrence, Mass.: Merrimach Book Service, 1980---E12.50/$31.00)

Australia, a report from Henry Mayer of some recent material from

World Bank, catalog of publications from     

Foreign Media Systems

Philip Schlesinger's Putting 'Reality' Together: BBC News (London: Constable, 1978---E8.50/4.50 or about $17.00/9.00)

Australia, latest round-up of media publications from

John A. Lent, Third World Mass Media and Their Search for Modernity: The Case of Commonwealth Caribbean, 1717-1976 (Cranbury, N.J.: Bucknell University Press, 1978---$22.50)     

Foreign Media Systems

Patricia Hindley, Gail M. Martin, and Jean McNulty The Tangled Net: Basic Issues in Canadian Communications (Vancouver, British Columbia: J.J. Douglas Ltd., 1977—$12.95)

Tom Burns The BBC: Public Institution and Private World (London: Macmillan [New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc.], 1977—$19.50)

Alison McLeay The World of the Onedin Line (Newton Abbot, England (North Pomfret, Vt.): David & Charles, 1977—$11.95)     

Foreign Systems of Communication

Gunnel Rikardsson's The Middle East Conflict in the Swedish Press: A Content Analysis of Three Daily Newspapers 1948-1973 (Stockholm: Esselte Studium, 1978—price not given, paper)

Ron Sanders' Broadcasting in Guyana (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978-13.95 or$9.50, paper)

Charlotte Brunsdon and David Morley's Everyday Television: 'Nationwide' (94 pp.)

Revue Francaise de Communication (CEEPP 38, rue de Bassano, 75008 Paris, France—various rates from different regions: about $38.00 to the USA/quarterly)

A Comparison of Commercial Television in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Japan and Australia (Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, 153 Walker St., North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia—apparently free on request, paper with spiral binding)

Dean T. Jamison and Emile G. McAnany's Radio for Education and Development (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1978—$15.95/7.95)     

国外图书馆职业准入制度对我国的启示

职业准入制度是国际上通行的一种对技术技能人才的资格认证制度。论文介绍了国外图书馆职业准入制度的发展情况，并对我国图书馆职业资格准入制度的建立提出了建议。     

国外信息过滤系统的研究综述

明确了信息过滤系统与相关系统的区别，设计了一个框架，根据多种标准对信息过滤系统进行分类；阐述了相关的过滤方法；描述了信息过滤系统的重要概念和用于实现的技术；讨论信息过滤系统的评估方法及其局限性。最后，文章对信息过滤系统发展方向进行了展望。     

国内外著名文献传递系统的比较分析

文章主要介绍了国内外6个著名文献传递服务系统的发展概况,详细分析比较了CALIS、NSTL、CASHLBLDSC、ILLiad、Subito文献传递系统各自的主要特点,并针对国内著名文献传递服务系统存在的不足,从方便用户使用的角度提出了一些完善系统文献传递服务的建议。     

国外高校图书馆嵌入课程管理系统研究

根据近10年来国外学者在高校图书馆嵌入课程管理系统方面的最新研究,可以将相关学者的研究归纳为嵌入意义、嵌入方法、嵌入内容和嵌入所面临的问题等几个方面。希望通过对国外相关研究的梳理,为我国该领域的理论研究和实践工作提供借鉴与参考。     

国外典型语义数字图书馆系统的比较研究

介绍语义数字图书馆系统的定义,在系统技术框架、内容和元数据、语义技术应用三个方面对语义数字图书馆系统BRICKS、Fedora和JeromeDL进行分析比较,展望语义数字图书馆系统的发展趋势.     

国内四大外文期刊检索系统之比较

介绍了中科院文献情报中心的电子期刊服务系统、中国高校人文社科文献中心的外文期刊目次数据库、重庆维普咨讯公司外文科技期刊数据库及国家科技图书文献中心的外文期刊数据库几大检索系统的免费使用部分,并分析对比了各系统在收录期刊的品种范围、收录年限、检索方式、更新速度等方面存在的优点和缺点。     

国外基于本体的信息系统概念建模研究

信息系统概念建模是在信息系统开发的需求分析阶段,为促进相关人员之间的理解和沟通,对某些领域的静态现象和动态现象进行形式化地表示和建立文档的活动,属于需求工程和软件工程的子学科。基于本体的信息系统概念建模是指用本体理论或模型支持信息系统概念建模的方法。本文根据目前国外学者对基于本体的信息系统概念建模的研究情况,将其分为两个主要的学派:一是BWW本体学派;另一个是REA学派。在此基础上介绍和比较了两大学派的研究成果,并对其未来的研究方向进行了展望。     

国外主要图书馆集成管理系统采访模块的分析与比较

本文选择了近年来我国主要引进的国外四大图书馆集成管理系统Horizon、Unicorn、Millennium以及A-LEPH500,通过对四大系统的主要功能特点和采访模块的功能特点进行比较分析,着重研究了各系统的采访模块在数据接收与处理、订单处理、发票管理和经费结算、读者推荐等功能上的优势和区别。     

Foreign Communication

CSIS, two recent papers from

ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND POLITICS IN WESTERN EUROPE: EUROMEDIA RESEARCH GROUP HANDBOOK OF NATIONAL SYSTEMS edited by Hans J. Kleinsteuber, et al (Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag, 1986—price not given, paper)

THE POLITICS OF THE COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION IN WESTERN EUROPE edited by Kenneth Dyson and Peter Humphreys (London and Totowa, NJ: Frank Cass & Co., 1986—$29.50)

EMERGING CORPORATE INFORMATION NETWORKS: REGULATORY AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN JAPAN by Takashi Yokokura (Program on Information Resources Polic y, 200 Aiken, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138—price not given, paper)

WORLD BROADCASTING SYSTEMS: Update Notes, December 1987 by Sydney W. Head (available from Martha Sanchez, Kinko's Copies, 1212 South Dixie Highway, Coral Gables, FL 33146—$7.00 spiral bound)     

Foreign Communications

Sue Pyne's “Current British Research on Mass Media and Mass Communication: Register of Ongoing and Recently Completed Research” (Documentation Centre for Mass Communication Research, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, 104 Regent Rd., Leicester LE1 7LT, England---£2.00 in the UK and £2.50 outside, paper)

British broadcasting annual yearbooks (BBC and IBA)

David Ellis' Evolution of the Canadian Broadcasting System: Objectives and Realities, 1928-1968 (Canadian Government Printing Office, Mail Order Service, 270 Albert St., Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0S9 ---$3.90, paper)

John C. Merrill and Harold A. Fisher's The World's Great Dailies: Profiles of 50 Newspapers (New York: Hastings House, 1980---$18.50/9.50)

Australian media, eight recent items reviewed by Henry Mayer

Harold D. Lasswell, Daniel Lerner, and Hans Speier, eds. Propaganda and Communication in World History: Volume III, A Pluralizing World in Formation (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1980---$25.00)     

Foreign Film

George Perry's The Great British Picture Show from the 90s to the 70s (New York: Hill and Wang, 1974---$12.50)

Mildred Constantine and Alan Fern's Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1974---$12.95)

Michael Jon Stoil's Cinema Beyond the Danube: The Camera and Politics (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974---$6.00)

Antonin J. Liehn's Closely Watched Films: The Czechoslovak Experience (International Artistic Sciences Press, 901 North Broadway, White Plains, N.Y. 10603, 1974---$15.00)

Eleanor Beatty's A Handbook of Canadian Film (Toronto: Peter Martin Association with Take One, 1973---price not known, paper)

Kuleshov on Film: Writings by Lev Kuleschov (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974--- $10.00)

Susan Sontag's Brother Carl (New York: Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974---$10.95/4.95)     

Foreign Communications

The Media: Contexts of Study (114 pp.---$6.30)

The Study of Culture 1 (152 pp---$7.65)

The Study of Culture 2 (144 pp.---$7.65)

The Audience (104 pp.---$6.16)

Media Organization 1 (106 pp.---$6.l6)

Media Organization 2 (60 pp.---$5.31)

Media and Society 1 (92 pp.---$6.16)

Media and Society 2 (53 pp.---$4.25)

Secrecy and the Right to Know, by Dina Goren (Ramat Gan, Israel: Turtledove Publishing, 1978---no price given)

Newspapers: The Power and the Money, by Simon Jenkins (London: Faber & Faber, 1978---E1.95, paper)

The Abuse of Power, by James Margach (London: W.H. Allen, 1978---95 p, paperback)

The Spanish Media Since Franco, by William Chislett (London: Writers and Scholars Educational Trust, 1978---£3.00)

T.J. Allard's Straight Up: Private Broadcasting in Canada 1918-1958 (Canadian Communications Foundation, 165 Sparks St., Ottawa, Ontario KiP 5S2---$10.95 1 paper including mailing)

Oswald H. Ganley's The Role of Communications and Information Resources in Canada (Program on Information Resources Policy, 200 Aiken, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02138---$10.90, paper--ask for Working Paper W79-1)

Anthony Smith's The Newspaper: An International History (London: Thames and Hudson, 1979 ---$14.95)     

Foreign communications

JAPANESE CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION: CRITICAL CULTURAL ANALYSIS by Ray T. Donahue (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998—$59.00/39.50, ISBN 0–7618–1248–2 hard, 0–7618–1249–0 paper, 377 pp., notes, references, index)

STATISTICAL YEARBOOK: FILM, TELEVISION, VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA IN EUROPE: 1999 EDITION by the European Audiovisual Observatory (Strasbourg, France: European Audiovisual Observatory, 1999— 900ff or about $160, paper, ISBN 92–871–3885–0, 415 pp., tables, charts, notes, bibliography)

MODERN HISTORY OF INDIAN PRESS by Sunit Ghosh (New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1998—no price available, ISBN 81–7020–697–9, 394 pp., index)

ASIAN COMMUNICATION HANDBOOK edited by Anura Goonasekera and Duncan Holaday (Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre and School of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University, 1998—$65.00, ISBN 9971–905–65–5, 446 pp.)

PUBLIC PURPOSES IN BROADCASTING: FUNDING THE BBC edited by Andrew Graham (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1999—£10.95, paper, ISBN 1–86020–561–5, 168 pp., tables, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN AFRICA edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1999—$75.00, ISBN 0–19–510201–0, 306 pp., tables, chapter bibliographies, index)

LIBERALIZING THE EUROPEAN MEDIA: POLITICS REGULATION AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE by Shalini Venturelli (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1998—£50.00, ISBN 0–19–823379–5, 316 pp., index, bibliography)     

Foreign Media

Robert E. Babe's Cable Television and Telecommunications in Canada: An Economic Analysis (East Lansing: Micigan State University Graduate School of Business Administration, 1975— $7.50, paper)

Manry Lisann's Broadcasting to the Soviet Union: International Politics and Radio (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1975—$16.50)