Media-Related Works

Reed H. Blake and Edwin O. Haroldsen's A Taxonomy of Concepts in Communication (New York: Hastings House, 1975—$6.95/4.95)

Allen H. Center's Public Relations Practices: Case Studies (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975—$11.95/7.95)

Bjorn Berndtson and Donald J. Bogue's Mass Mailing Manual for Family Planning: Manual of Procedures (Community and Family Study Center, University of Chicago, 1411 East 60th St., Chicago, Ill. 60637—$1.50, paper)

Louis Savary, Mary Paolini, and George Lane's Intrerpersonal Communications: A Worktext for Self-Understanding and Growth in Personal Relations (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1975–,$4.00, $3.00 to schools, paper, with teacher's guide for $1.00)

Gerhard J. Hanneman and William J. McEwen's Communication and Behavior (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1975—price not known, paper)     

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Edwin Emery, Phillip Ault and Warren Agoe's Introduction to Mass Communications (Dodd, Moad, $7.95)

Denis McQuail, Towards a Sociology of Mass Communications (Macmillan, paperback at ca.$2.50)

Marshall McLuhan, Culture is Our Business (McGraw-Hill, $10.00)

David Manning White, Pop Culture in America (Quadganglo paperbacks, $2.45)

Mass Culture (Free Press, $2.95)

Theodore Peterson, Jay Jensen and William L. River's The Mass Media and Modern Society (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, now edition to cost $8.95)     

Broadcast Journalism

Edwin Diamond's Good News, Bad News (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1978---S12.50)

Laurily Keir Epstein, ed. Women and the News (New York: Hastings House, 1978---$12.50)

Gates, Gary Paul. Air Time: The Inside Story of CBS News (New York: Harper & Row, 1978---$12.95)

Barrett, Marvin. Rich News, Poor News: The Sixth Alfred I. duPont--Columbia University Survey of Broadcast Journalism (New York: Crowell, 1978---$12.95/ 5.95)

General Communications (partial list of contents)     

General Communications

SELF, SYMBOLS & SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS COMMUNICATION by Stanley J. Baran, et al. (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1984---price not given, paper)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN CRISIS: THE FIRST AMENDMENT, TECHNOLOGY, AND DEREGULATION by Edwin Diamond, et al. (Cato Institute, 224 Second St., S.E. Washington, D.C. 20003---$6.00, paper)

MEDIA INSURANCE: PROTECTING AGAINST HIGH JUDGEMENTS, PUNITIVE DAMAGES, AND DEFENSE COSTS (Practising Law Institute, 810 Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019---$35.00, paper)

LAW OF MASS COMMUNICATIONS: FREEDOM AND CONTROL OF PRINT AND BROADCAST MEDIA by Harold L. Nelson and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr. (Mineola, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 1982---$19.75)

A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR ADVERTISING by Burleigh Gardner (Chicago: Crain Books, 1982---price not given)

MASS COMMUNICATION REVIEW YEARBOOK, VOLUME 4 edited by Ellen Wartella and D. Charles Whitney (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1983---price not given)     

Library Automation at The University for Development Studies: Challenges and Prospects

The automation of a library that basically aims at improving the management of the library's resources and increasing access to these same resources by users has caught on so well in the western world that virtually all academic libraries in that part of the world have automated most of their services. In Africa, however, several challenges are making it difficult for academic libraries to do the same, thus depriving them of the numerous touted benefits a library stands to gain from automating its services. The University for Development Studies (UDS) Library in Northern Ghana embarked on an automation project on one of its campuses that has thus far resulted in the full automation of the cataloguing and circulation operations. This article recounts the experiences of the Library in its bid to automate some of its services. The procedures that were followed, as well as the highlights of the automation, are recounted here. Lessons learned and challenges encountered are presented as an example for other academic libraries in Ghana, Africa, and other developing countries that have plans to automate.