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News Division of SLA Web Site

NewsLib (SLA News Division electronic discussion list)

NewsLib History (First email messages posted Sept. 14, 1993)

Sept. 11, 2001: NewsLib research queries following World Trade Center & Pentagon Attacks

• Factiva's 2002 article in Content Communities about NewsLib subscribers' research efforts.]
• Alycia Tulloch's Profile of News Librarians on September 11, 2001

SLA Student Group Presentation on News Librarianship (2007)

AUKML (Association of United Kingdom Media Libraries, Fighting for a high profile in the media, by Katharine Schopflin (2006)

News Library Surveys:

• News Libraries in Crisis (research by Nora Paul and Kathleen Hansen, 2002)
• News Libraries in Crisis (SLA presentation by Paul and Hansen, 2002)
• News Library Services Survey (by Tom Arnold, Summit Media Partners, 2003) [Note: free downloads, but registration is required.]
• Links to other surveys such as "News Libraries as Profit Centers (1997)," "Salary Survey (1994)," "Staffing Surveys (1995, 1997)."

 News Library Database Quality Control Surveys:

• Database Quality Control and Corrections Survey (By Jackie Chamberlain, 1998)
• Presentation on News Libraries' Database Quality
• An Editor's Investigation into Electronic News Archives' Accuracy (Bruce Oakley, 1998)
• Selected Bibliography on Database Quality and Accuracy

News Division Video: "Unsung Heroes"

News Librarians: Top Researchers

Local TV News Researchers (example of convergence between print, TV, and online news research support.)

News Librarians as Writers, Columnists, Compilers, and Bloggers (2004)

News Librarian Articles (Early Bibliography)

News Librarians: International

News Division Chairs (1923-2006)

News Division Awards Programs (1978-2006)

History of the News Division

Historical Archives of the News Division

• Kwapil's Lantern Slides of Special Libraries (circa 1920s - 1930s)
• SLA Guidelines and Best Practices for Division Archives  
• NewsLibraryNews editors (1978 - 2008)

News Division Governance Committee (2003-2003)

News Division Governing Document (2003 draft)

News Librarians: obituaries
     Luise Bueno (Miami Herald)
     Agnes Henebry
     Virginia Carter Hills
     Jacci Cenacveira
     Liz Donovan
     Sunday Orme Fellows
     C. B. Hayden
     Ray Hicks
     Joseph F. Kwapil
    Donna MacHutchin
    Joyce McMillin
    Joe Mehr
    David Rhydwen
    Nan Stoddard
    Rose Vormelker 
    Joe Wright

Journalism Schools in the United States

Style Manuals & Resource Guides for Journalists (and news researchers)

• Latinos in the United States, 2nd ed. Distributed by Assoc. of Hispanic Journalists. Order copies for $8 each via email nahj@nahj.com or phone (202) 662-7145.  Contents include essays on hispanic/latino identity, a historical
  review, glossary of terms and historic events, interviewing/writing
  guide about latinos, an immigration primer, briefings on the diversity
  of the Americas, latino holidays and cultural customs, and contact
  information on resources organizations and institutes.
   
• One Hundred Questions, 500 Nations. Distributed by the Native American Journalists Association. Order for $15 each + shipping by phone (405) 436-3744
   
• The American Indian and the Media. Distributed by Native American Journalists Association. Place an order by phone (405) 436-3744
   
• 100 Questions and Answers about Arab Americans. Available at this URL http://amalid.com/100_Questions.htm
   

• The Asian American Journalists Association stylebook 
  http://www.aaja.org/resources/apa_handbook/2000aaja_handbook.pdf

• GLAAD's resource guide and stylebook at
   http://www.glaad.org/media/guide/BLAAD_MediaRefGuide_7th Edition.pdf

• Maynard Institute for Journalism Education's Diversity Guide
  http://www.maynardije.org/resources/guide/

• Society of Professional Journalists: Guidelines for Countering
  Racial, Ethnic and Religious Profiling 
   http://www.spj.org/divguidelines.asp

• The Association of Health Care Journalists. Covering Health in a Multicultural 
  Society. http://www.healthjournalism.org/resources-AHCJpubs.php 
  It is a tool for understanding the increasing diversity of the audiences we serve. 
  It is meant to expand your knowledge of what culture, ethnicity, health and 
  well-being mean to people from a variety of backgrounds.

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Newsboys (photos and articles of late 19th and early 20th century "newsies")

JOURNALISM/MASS COMMUNICATION LIBRARIES

•  Libraries with Journalism Resources (Poynter Institute for Media Studies)
• Journalism and Mass Communication Bibliographies (Poynter Institute for Media Studies)
• 24 Hours: A Day in the Life of a Journalism Librarian. 2007. By Barbara Semonche, UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Mass Communication Bibliographers and Journalism / Mass Communication Librarians (with photos of libraries)
• Information Technology & Information Literacy in Journalism-Mass Communication Libraries: A Survey (2005-2006) By Patrick Reakes, Barbara Semonche, and Fred Thomsen
• Journalism / Mass Communication Libraries Web Sites:

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications: Alan H. Neuharth Library   Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism: Library   Indiana University School of Journalism Library   Iowa State University Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication -- Library   New York University: Librarian for Journalism & Mass Communication   Ohio State University Journalism Library   Penn State College of Communications: Foster Communications Librarian [Note: Debora Cheney created an interactive web page, "The Information Cycle. . . how today's events are tomorrow's information."]   University of Illinois College of Communications: Library   University of Iowa School of Journalism & Mass Communication: Resource Center   University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication: Digital Information and Resource Center / Eric Sevareid Library   University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication: Park Library   National Press Club: The Eric Friedheim Library & News Information Center