Park Library's latest arrivals: books, CDs, DVDs, serials, publications

Greetings!

New materials have arrived in our Park Library. They are not yet catalogued,but if you are interested in examining the materials earlier, please check with me,Barbara Semonche.

BOOKS:

1. Mcquail's Mass Communication Theory. 5th edition. 2005
2. Attack the Messenger: How Polititians Turn You Against the Media. By CraigCrawford. 2006
3. A Field Guide for Science Writers. By Deborah Blum, et al. 2nd edition, 2006.
4. The Best American Science and Nature Writing. By Steven Pinker. 2004.
5. FeatureWriting.Net. By Michael Ray Smith. 2005
6. The Almanac of American Polits. 2006
7. Os 4E's de Marketing e Branding. By Augusto Nascimento and Robert Lauterborn. 2005(in Portuguese) [Note: book donated by Bob Lauterborn to our Park Library.]
8. Minding Our Elders: Caregivers share their personal stories. By Carol BradleyBursack. 2005. [Note: a gift from the author.]

REPORTS

1. Why European TV News Matters: A cross-nationally comparative analysis of TV newsabout the European Union and its effects. By Jochen Peter. 2003
2. Capturing and Captivating Young Readers: 50 Editorial Strategies. A report fromthe World Association of Newspapers. 2005. [Note: Morris Rosenberg kindly facilitated the acquisition of this report.]
3. Trends in Newsrooms: 2005. A report from the World Association of Newspapers.
4. VALS: Unterstanding U.S. Consumers. Sept. 2003. A report from SRI BusinessIntelligence.

DVDs & CDs

1. Truth Merchants: Public Relations and the Media.
2. Toxic Sludge is Good for You: The public relations industry unspun.
3. The Pitch: the inner sanctum of a small Sydney advertising agency experiencing thepressure of "pitching" to capture an account.
4. WPTF's 65th Anniversary Show (1 CD) plus a 12 CD set of WPTF's 50th Anniversary.[Note: this is a gift from former UNC president Bill Friday.]

SERIALS

1. Wired Magazine. [Note: a gift subscription from Bob Lauterborn.]
2. Southern Arts Journal (vol. 1, no. 1) [Note: a gift from the editor-in-chief,Robert C. Lock.]

Many thanks for the gracious and generous contributions from our alumni, faculty, and friends in support of our Park Library's collections.

Best regards,
Barbara P. Semonche, Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 11:27 AM

 
Subject: Neiman Reports, Fall 2005 issue: Phil Meyer's commentary on The League of Extraordinary Journalists

Greetings!

Phil Meyer has an issue with errors (in print and in blogs) that are not corrected promptly and fully. So do I. Which is why I'm commending this article to everyone who shares our concern. The title of the article is "Organizing the NewNews" and appears in the Fall 2005 issue of Nieman Reports.

Full-text archives of Neiman Reports can be found in UNC's electronic resources database, Communication and Mass Media Complete. However, this current issue is not yet loaded on the database. One can read the print version in our ParkLibrary.

Best regards,

Barbara Semonche, Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 11:31 AM

 
Subject: Survey: College Students' knowledge of the First Amendment

Greetings!

This morning's (Oct. 6, 2005) edition of the Herald-Sun carried a column byKathleen Parker (syndicated columnist with the Orlando Sentinel) about the First Amendment. She mentions the recent episode with former Daily Tar Heel columnist, Jillian Bandes, and another similar episode involving Univ. of Florida student newspaper cartoonist, Andy Marlette. (Yes, the nephew of Doug Marlette.) A copy of this column is posted on the bulletin board outside our Park Library.

The point of Parker's column is the lack of university administrators' support of what Ms. Parker contends is basically an issue of involving First Amendment rights. Parker continues in her long column to mention a study associated with The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (described by some sources as run by civil libertarians).

I decided to track down this survey. Not exactly easy to find the authoritive source, but I did locate a press release.

This study was conducted between Dec. 2002 and April 2003 surveying 1,037 students at 339 colleges and universities as well as 306 administrators at 306 colleges and universities nationwide. Results? One out of four college students was unable to name any of the freedoms protected by the First Amendment. Among campus administrators, from presidents to assistant deans, 11 percent couldn't name anyspecific First Amendment rights.

If this survey is a true picture of the poor grasp of First Amendment rights on college campuses, we are in a sad state indeed. As champions of the First Amendment, what could/should be our next move?

Best regards,

Barbara P. Semonche, Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 11:08 AM