New From the Government

The Radio Frequency Spectrum: United States Use and Management, (Office of Telecommunications Management, Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C. 20504, no charge)

Reports on Selected Topics in Telecommunications (National Academy of Sciences, Printing and Publishing Office, 2101 Constitution Ave., Washington, D.C. 20418, $4.75)     

Government-Related

American Statistics Index: A Comprehensive Guide and Index to the Statistical Publications of the U.S. Government (Congressional Information Service, 600 Montgomery Building, Washington, D.C. 20014, 1973 – $375, two volumes).

Omnibus Copyright Revision–Comparative Analysis of the Issues (Washington, D.C.: American Society for Information Science, 1140 Connecticut Ave. NW, 1973-448.00, or $38.40 to ASIS members).     

Cable and Telecommunications

William A. Lucas and Robert K. Yin's Serving Local Needs with Telecommunications (Santa Monica, Calif: Rand Corporation Report R-1345-MF, November 1973—$3.00, paper).

Fred B. Wood's The Potential for Congressional Use of Emergent Telecommunications: An Exploratory Assessment (Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology, May 1974—apparently free on request)

Walter S. Baer, Michael Botein, Leland L. Johnson, Carl Pilnick, Monroe E. Price, and Robert K. Yin's Cable Television: Franchising Considerations (New York: Crane, Russak, & Co., 1974-=T13.50)

Charles G. Woodard's Cable Television: Acquisition and Operation of CATV Systems (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974—$27.50)

Planning Interconnection Systems: Options for the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (Washington, D.C.: Cable Television Information Center, 2100 M St. N.W., 1974-47.50, paper)

Cablelines (Cable Communications Resource Center, 1900 L St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036—monthly/free on request)     

Cable and Educational Media

Mary Louise Hollowell, ed, The Cable/Broadband Communications Book, 1977-1978 (Washington: Communications Press [1346 Connecticut Ave. N.W., 20036], 1977—$16.25 including postage, paper)

1976 NCTA Cable Services Directory (National Cable Television Association, 918 Sixteenth St. NW, Washington D.C. 20006—$4.00, paper)

Regulatinzfable Television Subscriber Rates: A Guide for Local Officials (Cable Television Information Center, Yrban Institute, 2100 M St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20037—$17.50 including postage, paper)

Alan Hancock Planning for Educational Mass Media (London and New York: Longman, 1977—$20.00)

Kenyon C. Rosenberg and John S. Doskey Media Equipment: A Guide and Dictionary (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1976—$11.50)     

Books of the Month: News in Washington

Stephen Hess, The Washington Reporters (Brookings Institution, 1775 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036—S17.95/6.95)

Joynt Kumar, Portraying the President: The White House and the News Media (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981—$26.50/9.95)     

Computers in Libraries 2002, 17th Annual Conference,Washington Hilton and Towers,Washington, D.C., March 13-15, 2002

Abstract

The author reviews the 17th annual Computers in libraries conference, held in Washington, D.C, in March 2002.     

Mass Media Production Guides

William Hawes' The Performer in Mass Media in Media Professions and in the Community (New York: Hastings House, 1978—$15.75/8.95)

Robert L. Hilliard, ed. Television Broadcasting: An Introduction (New York: Hastings House, 1978— $15.75/7.95)

Charles Bensinger's The Video Guide (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Video-Info Publications (P.O. Box 1507), 1977— $11.95, paper)

Mike Wolverton's And Now the News (Houston, Tex.: Gulf Publishing Co., 1977— $10.95)

The WAFL Book: A Guide to Film and Video in the Washington, D.C. Area (Washington Area Filmmakers League, P.O. Box 6475, Washington, D.C. 20009 —$5.45, including postage, paper)

David E. Fear's Technical Writing (New York: Random House, 1978—price not given, paper)     

Publishing and Mass Communications

John P. Dessauer's Book Publishing: What it Is What it Does (New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1974—$11.95)

Charles A. Madison's Irving to Irving: Author-Publisher Relations 1800-1974 (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1974– $19.95).

The American Film Institute Guide to College Courses in Film and Television (Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books, 1975—$6.95, paper)

Bert Cowlan and Dennis Foote's A Case Study of the ATS-6 Health Education and Telecommunications Projects (Washington: Office of Education and Human Resources, Bureau for Technical Assistance, Agency for International Development, 1975—no cost given, paper).

Charles S. Steinberg's The Creation of Consent: Public Relations in Practice (New York: Hastings House, 1975—$13.50/6.95).

Maxwell Sackheim's My First 65 Years in Advertising (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1975—$9.95/5.95).

Sherman Briscoe's Black Press Information Handbook: 1974-75 (National Newspaper Publishers Association, 770 National Press Building, Washington D.C. 20004—$5.00, paper)     

Political Journalism

Hillier Krieghbaum's Pressures on the Press (New York: Crowell, 1972—$6.95)

John R. Coyne, Jr. The Impudent Snobs: Agnew vs. the Intellectual Establishment (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1972— 8.95)

James Keogh's President Nixon and the Press (New York: Funk & Wagnalls with distribution by Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1972—$6.95),

Leo Bogart's Silent Politics: Polls and the Awareness of Public Opinion (New York: Wiley/Interscience, 1972—$9.95)

Ray Hiebert, Robert Jones, John Lorenz, and Ernest Lotito (eds.) The Political Image Mergants: Strategies in the New Politics (Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books, 1971—$7.95/4.95)

Delmer D. Dunn's Financing Presidential Campaigns (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1972— $5.95/2.95)     

Journalism and Mass Media

1977 Newspaper Edition (the publication will appear quarterly—apparently covering a different medium each issue, 342 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017— available without charge to key personnel concerned with media decisions at agencies and clients, $18.00 per copy to others)

1977 City and Regional Magazine Directory (Conference Management Corp., 500 Summer St., Stamford, Ct. 06901—$19.95, paper)

Washington Journalism Review (WJR, 3122 M St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20007—$16.00 per year/12 issues, with single copies at $2.00)

Maurice Rickards' This is Ephemera: Collecting Printed Throwaways (Brattleboro, Vt.: Stephen Greene Press, 1977—$7.00/3.9)

Prakash Sethi's Advocacy Advertising and Large Corporations: Social Conflict, Big Business Image, the News Media, and Public Policy (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books [D.C. Heath] , 1977—$25.00)     

Changing Technologies

UNDERSTANDING NEW MEDIA: TRENDS AND ISSUES IN ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION,edited by Benjamin M. Compaine (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger, 1984—$29.95).

ELECTRONIC MARKETING: EMERGING 'IV AND COMPUTER CHANNELS FOR INTERACTIVE HOME SHOPPING, by Lawrence Strauss (White Plains, New York: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1983—$34.95).

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY , by Peter Zorkoczy (White Plains, New York: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1982—$29.95).

INFORMATION NETWORK SYSTEM: TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by Yasusada Kitahara (Edison, New Jersey: Heinemann Educational Books, 1983—$15.00).

CABLE TELEVISION , by William Grant (Reston, Virginia: Reston Publishing, 1983—$23.95).

CABLE TELEVISION: AN ASSESSMENT OF CRITICAL ISSUES IN WASHINGTON, D.C. (Washington, D.C.: Institute for District Affairs of the University of the District of Columbia, n.d., but 1984—price not given, paper).

THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES: CHANGES AND CHALLENGES IN PUBLIC RELATIONS—A SOURCEBOOK OF GENERAL INFORMATION (Washington, D.C.: The Media Institute, 1983—price not given, paper).

INTRODUCING CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS: THE NEW MOBILE TELEPHONE SYSTEM , by Stan Prentiss (Blue Ridge Sumniit, Pennsylvania: Tab Books, 1984-$9.95, paper).

CHANGING INFORMATION CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGIES: A READER FOR THE PROFESSIONAL LIBRARIAN White Plains, New York: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1982—price not given, paper).

BOOKS, LIBRARIES AND ELECTRONICS: ESSAYS ON THE FUTURE OF WRITTEN COMMUNICATION (White Plains, New York: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1982—$24.95).

THE SUBCARRIER PAGING GUIDE, by Alan A. Reite and ThOrnas J. Buono (Subcarrier Publishing, P.O. Box 57011, Washington, D.C. 20037—$75.00, paper).     

Books of the Month

G.C. Wilhoit and Harold de Bock, eds. Mass Communication Review Yearbook, Volume I (Beverly Hills, Ca.: Sage Publications, 1980---$35.00)

Victor E. Ferrall, Jr., ed. Yearbook of Broadcasting Articles: Anthology Edition, Volume 1, 1959-1978 (Federal Publications Inc., 1725 K St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20006---$95.00)     

Broadcasting

CHANNELS OF POWER: THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION ON AMERICAN POLITICS by Austin Ranney (New York: Basic Books, 1983---$14.95)

TURNED-ON TV/TURNED-OFF VOTERS: POLICY OPTIONS FOR ELECTION PROJECTIONS by Percy Tannenbaum and Leslie Kostrich (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Books, 1983---$25.00)

NEWSWATCH: HOW TV DECIDES THE NEWS by Av Westin (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982---$6.95, hardcover also available)

BROADCAST REGULATION: SELECTED CASES AND DECISIONS by Marvin R. Bensman (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1983---$19.50/8.75)

MODULARIZATION AND PACKAGING OF PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAMS by John Carey et al. (Washington, D.C.: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Office of Policy Development and Planning, 1983---price not given, paper)

PRIME-TIME TELEVISION: A PICTORIAL HISTORY FROM MILTON BERLE TO “FALCON CREST” by Fred Goldstein and Stan Goldstein (New York: Crown 1983---$25.00)     

International Communication

COMMUNICATIONS IN A CHANGING WORLD (Washington, D.C.: The Media Institute, 1983---two volumes, paper, price not given)

THE ABC OF COPYRIGHT (Paris: Unesco/New York: Unipub, 1981---paper, price not given)

MILITARY PROPAGANDA: PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AND OPERATIONS by Ron D. McLaurin (New York: Praeger, 1982---price not given)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE YEAR 2000: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES edited by Indu B. Singh (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1983---$24.95)

THE EDUCATIONAL USE OF MASS MEDIA by Gloria Feliciano, et al. (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1981---$5.00, paper)

POWERS OF THE PRESS: TWELVE OF THE WORLD'S INFLUENTIAL NEWSPAPERS by Martin Walker (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1983---price not given)

THE PHONOGRAM IN CULTURAL COMMUNICATION: REPORT ON A RESEARCH PROJECT UNDERTAKEN BY MEDICAULT, edited by K. Blaukopf (New York and Vienna: Springer-Verlag, 1982---$23.60, paper)     

Broadcasting and Cable

Sydney W. Head's Broadcasts in America: A Survey of Television and Radio (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1976--- price not given but about $16.00)

Barcus, two studies of children's television program content

Stuart Hood's The Professions: Radio and Television (North Pomfret, Vt.: David and Charles, 1975---$9.95)

Televisions (Washington Community Video Center, P.O. Box 21068, Washington D.C. 20009---bimonthly/510 for individuals, $15 for institutions)

Cable Television: Promise versus Regulatory Performance (Washington: House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Submommittee on Communications, Committee Print, January 1976---free on request to the Committee Clerk)

“Developing Legal Issues in Cable Communications,” The Catholic University of America Law Review 24:675-898 (Summer 1975)     

Journalism

OVER THE WIRE AND ON TV: CBS AND UPI IN CAMPAIGN '80 by Michael J. Robinson and Margaret A. Sheehan (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, with distribution by Basic Books, 1983---$24.95)

TELEVISION AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, edited by Martin Linsky (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books/Washington, D.C.: Heath, 1983---$19.95)

COMPUTERS AND POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS: A LOOK AT TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE by Thomas E. Baker (Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy, 200 Aiken, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138---price not given, paper)

SPLIT VISION: THE PORTRAYAL OF ARABS IN THE AMERICAN MEDIA, edited by Edmund Ghareeb (American-Arab Affairs Council, 1730 M St., N.W., Suite 411, Washington, D.C. 20036---$12.95/6.95)

WAR, PEACE &; THE NEWS MEDIA: PROCEEDINGS, edited by David M. Rubin and Ann Marie Cunningham (Department of Journalism, New York University, New York, N.Y. 10003---price not given, paper)     

Book of the Month

Forest Woody Horton, Jr., ed., UNDERSTANDING U.S. INTIMATION POLICY: THE INFOSTRUCMIRE HANDBOOK (The Information Industry Association, 316 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E., Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20003---$99.50 for the set or any one volume plus the primer for $50.00, paper)     

Books Dealing with News

Delmor D. Dunn's Public Officials and the Press (Addison-Wesloy paporback, price unknown)

William O. Chittick's State Department, The Press, and Pressure Groups (Wiley-Interscience, $9.95)

Richard W. Lee, Politics and the Press (Acropolis Books (Washington D.C.), $3.95 in paperback, with a hardcover edition available, price unknown)

Curtis D. MacDougal's edited collection, Reporters Report Reporters (Iowa State, $6.50)

Ruth Adler, The Working Press (Bantam, $1.25)     

International Communication

Gertrude Joch Robinson, News Agencies and World News in Canada, the United States and Yugoslavia: Methods and Data (Institute for Journalism and Mass Communication Research, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland 1981—price not given, paper)

Uplink: The Newsletter of the Rural Satellite Program (AID Rural Satellite Program, Academy for Educational Development, 1414 22nd St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20037—free on request/quarterly)

Thesaurus of Development Communication (Clearinghouse on Development Communication, 1414 22nd St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20037—$4.00, paper)

William E. McCavitt's Broadcasting Around the World (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1981—$22.95)

Judith Budd, Register of Current British Research on Mass Media and Mass Communication: December 1980 (Leicester Documentation Centre for Mass Communication Research, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, 104 Regent Rd., Leicester LEI 7LT, United Kingdom—price not given, paper)

Peter Calvocoressi, Freedom to Publish (Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. 07716—$15.50, paper)     

4. ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Dorothy Ganfield Fowler's Unmailable: Congress and the Post Office (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1977- $14.50)

Current Developments in CATV and Pay Television (Practising Law Institute, 810 Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019—$20.00, paper, with discounts if adopted in quantity for class use).

Broadcasting and the Government: A Status Report prepared by the Relations and Legal Departments of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB, 1771 N St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20036—free on request)

Allen Hyman and M. Bruce Johnson, eds., Advertising and Free Speech (Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books [D.C. Heath] , 1977—$12.50