Foreign and International Media

Ion Trewin's The Professions: Journalism (North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1976—$9.95)

Charles Husband (ed.) White Media and Black Britain: A Critical Look at the Role of the Media in Race Relations Today (London: Arrow Books, Ltd., 1975—about $3.50, paper)

Peter Douglas' Television Today (London: Osprey Publishing, 1975—about $9.00)

Louis L. Snyder's Encyclopedia of the Third Reich (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976—$24.95)

Leo Bogart's Premises for Propaganda: The United States Information Agency's Operating Assumptions in the ColdWar (New York: Free Press, 1976—$12.95)

Marcellus S. Snow's International Commercial Satellite Communications: Economic and Political Issues of the First Decade of Intelsat (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1976—$16.50)

Charles Sherman and Donald Browne (eds) Broadcast Monographs No. 2: Issues in International Broadcasting (BEA, 1771 N. St. NW, Washington D.C. 20036—$5.00, with a $4.00 price to BEA members, paper)

Access: Technology and Access to Communications Media by B.R. Webster (54 pp., $2.65, paper)

Towards Realistic Communication Policies: Recent Trends and Ideas Compiled and Analysed by John A.R. Lee (59 pp., $2.65, paper)

Mehra Masani, Broadcasting and the People (179 pp., Rs 10.25, paper)

Narayana Menon, The Communications Revolution (89 pp., Rs 5.75, paper)     

Politics and the Media

L. John Martin, ed. "Role of the Mass Media in American Politics," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol 427 (September 1976)

C. Richard Hofstetter's Bias in the News: Network Television Coverage of the 1972 Election Campaign (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1976---$13.75)

Louis Maisel's Changing Campaign Techniques: Elections and Values in Contemporary Democracies (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1976---$17.50/7.50)     

Religious Communication

Ronald Eyre on the Long Search (Cleveland: Collins, 1979—$5.95, paper).

Virginia Stern Owens, The Total Image, or Selling Jesus in the Modern Age (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmanns, 1980—no price given, paper).

Daniel W. Holland, et al., Using Non-Broadcast Video in the Church (Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson Press, 1980—$5.95)

Media Development (London: World Association for Christian Communications—quarterly)

Committed Christians in Secular Communications (NSCS, 1982 South Shenandoah, Los Angeles Ca. 90034—$4.00)

Growing with Television: A Studx_of Biblica Values and the Television Experience (MARC, 475 Riverside Dr., New York, N.Y. 10115—write for details)

Gregor T. Goethals, The TV Ritual Worship at the Video Altar (Boston: Beacon Press, 1980—$11.95)

Gene Jaberg and Louis G. Wargo, Jr. The Video Pencil: Cable Communications for Church and Community (University Press of America, 4720 Boston Way Lanham, Md. 20801—$15.50/7.50)

Harold Osmeiri U.S. Religious Journalism and the Korean War (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America (ac dress above, 1980—$7.50, paper)     

Using WorldShare Collection Evaluation to Analyze Physical Science and Engineering Monograph Holdings by Discipline

Academic libraries are challenged with managing collection budgets for purchasing multidisciplinary ebook packages while equitably distributing funds for print and electronic monographs across subjects. McGill Library's science and engineering monograph holdings were analyzed using OCLC's WorldShare Collection Evaluation (WCE). Researchers mapped Conspectus subject divisions and categories to relevant university departments and evaluated holdings in comparison with department metrics to provide a fuller picture for collection development decision making. Findings show that WCE can be used in combination with circulation data and enrollment and staffing numbers to provide insight into the purchasing and use patterns of monographs down to the department level.     

Perfectionism and attitudes towards doping in junior athletes

Recent theory and research suggest that perfectionism is a personal factor contributing to athletes’ vulnerability to doping (using banned substances/drugs to enhance sporting performance). So far, however, no study has examined what aspects of perfectionism suggest a vulnerability in junior athletes. Employing a cross-sectional design, this study examined perfectionism and attitudes towards doping in 129 male junior athletes (mean age 17.3 years) differentiating four aspects of perfectionism: perfectionistic strivings, perfectionistic concerns, parental pressure to be perfect, and coach pressure to be perfect. In the bivariate correlations, only parental pressure showed a positive relationship with positive doping attitudes. In a multiple regression analysis controlling for the overlap between the four aspects, perfectionistic strivings additionally showed a negative relationship. Moreover, a structural equation model examining the relationships between all variables suggested that coach pressure had a negative indirect effect on attitudes towards doping via perfectionistic strivings. The findings indicate that perceived parental pressure to be perfect may be a factor contributing to junior athletes’ vulnerability to doping, whereas perfectionistic strivings may be a protective factor.