News Media Libraries: A Management Handbook provides a wealth of information on news libraries and the managerial concerns of news librarians and news researchers. This volume is organized in several broad sections devoted to the history and mission of news libraries, managerial issues and approaches, news libraries and computer-assisted journalism, special issues and projects of news librarians, and profiles of particular types of news libraries. Chapters within each section address more particular topics and provide valuable guidance on how to manage libraries and implement new technology. This reference volume concludes with a more extensive glossary and an annotated bibliography of books and articles published on news libraries between 1985 and 1993. While theoretical matters are considered, this reference is largely a ready source of practical knowledge for all types of news librarians.

[Note: this reference work was published just before the burgeoning use of the Internet by news researchers. In September of 1993, news librarians created their own list on the 'Net. For information on how to subscribe to the list, NewsLib, contact the listowner,

To order a copy of News Media Libraries: A Management Handbook, contact Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. at 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport, CT, 06881-5007, USA. Toll-Free telephone: 1-800-225-5800. FAX: (203) 222-1502.

Price $79.50 US dollars. ISBN # 0-313-27946-2. 680 pages. Publication Date: August 30, 1993.

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	                       			xiii

INTRODUCTION: The Information Age and 
                the Next Generation of News Librarians	xv
	Barbara P. Semonche

I. INTRODUCTION TO NEWS LIBRARIES

   1.      News Library History       1
           Appendices		32                  
             	Barbara P. Semonche         

   2.    News Library Technology:
           State-of-the-Art and Future Trends		46
           Glossary	63 
           Bibliography	67
             	M. J. Crowley

   3.    Information Technologies in U. S. 
           News Libraries: A Research Report 		68
             	Kathleen A. Hansen and Jean Ward

   4.    News Libraries in the European Community	83
           Appendix 	117
           Bibliography	124
           	Lucinda Covert-Vail

II. MANAGING NEWS LIBRARIES

   5.    Starting a News Library 			131
           Appendix  	147
           Bibliography 152
           	Susan E. McCargar     

   6.    Managing Larger Newspaper Libraries:
         The San Diego Union-Tribune Experience  	153
           Appendix    	162
           Glossary   	164
           Bibliography	165
           	Sharon Stewart Reeves

   7.    Managing Smaller Newspaper Libraries:                             
         The Gazette Experience                  	167
           Bibliography	175
           	Bridget Janus

   8.    The Clipping Collection                 	177
           Bibliography	187
           	Bridget Janus

   9.    The Photos/Maps/Graphics Collections      	188
           	Robert H. Jansen

  10.    Reference and Serial Collections         	211
           	John Cronin

  11.    The Electronic News Library                 	220
           Appendix   	230
           	Judy Metcalf

  12.    Microfilm Options in News Libraries:
         Contract or In-House?                  	232
           Glossary  	249
           Bibliography	251
           	Martha M. Haswell

  13.   Preservation and Disaster Control         	256
           Bibliography	262
           	Richard Geiger

III. NEWS LIBRARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
     COMPUTER-ASSISTED JOURNALISM (CAJ)  

  14.   Computer-Assisted Journalism:                          
         An Overview                               	265
           Appendices	301
           Bibliography	313
           	Barbara P. Semonche

  15.    A Primer for Computer-Assisted Research    	317
           	Nora Paul

  16.    Protecting Access to Computerized                                 
         Government Records                          	339
           Bibliography	345
           	Bill F. Chamberlin and Sigman Splichal

  17.    Polling Research and News Libraries:
         The Columbus Dispatch Experience           	346
           Bibliography	353
           	James Hunter

  18.    The Unconscious Fraud of Journalism Education	354
           Appendix  	364
           	J. T. Johnson

IV. SPECIAL PROJECTS, ISSUES AND CONCERNS 
     FOR NEWS LIBRARIES

  19.    Newspaper Indexing Policies and Procedures   	373
         Bibliography	406
           	Barbara P. Semonche

  20.    Legal and Ethical Issues for News Librarians 	413
           	Timothy Coggins

  21.    News Library Space Planning and Design      	440
           Bibliography	455
           	F. Joseph McHugh

  22.    Donating and Appraising News Library Collections  457
           Appendix	466
           Bibliography 471
           	Kristin T. Sandefur

  23.    News Librarian Images:
         Reporters' Trusted Colleagues,
         The "Golden Retrievers" of the Newsroom   	473
           Bibliography	486    
           	Cary Kenney

  24.    Professional Continuing Education Programs:
         Regional News Library Seminars            	490
           Appendix 	499
           	Barbara Apple and Diane Miller Sponsler

V. SELECTED NEWS LIBRARY PROFILES

  25.    News Magazine Libraries:
         U. S. News & World Report                	503
           Appendix    	510
           Bibliography	511
           	Kathleen L. Trimble

  26.    Television News Libraries:
         The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation     	512
           Glossary  	526
           	Jeannette Kopak 

  27.    The National Public Radio Library           	528
           Glossary 	549
           Bibliography	552
           	Christine Malesky

  28.    News Bureau Libraries                        	553
           Bibliography	559
           	Carolyn J. Hardnett

  29.    Journalism and Mass Communication 
         Academic Libraries                            	560
           Appendix	569
           Bibliography 571
           	Frances Goins Wilhoit

  30.    The Newspaper Association of America Library 	572
           Bibliography	580
           	Yvonne Egertson

DIRECTORY OF NEWS MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS         		583

GLOSSARY                                               	585
     Gaylor Callahan

NEWS LIBRARIES: A Selective Bibliography             	595
     Ann Kennedy      

NAME INDEX                                             	615
     Joan Stout

SUBJECT INDEX                                         	621   
     Joan Stout

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS                                 	653   
 

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