Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature 3rd Edition » (REV)

JO A. CATES is Director of the library at Columbia College Chicago, a school for the arts and the media. She has been Regional Research Manager of Ernst and Young's Center for Business Knowledge in Chicago, former Head of the Transportation Library at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and former Chief Librarian of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has an undergraduate degree in Journalism from Boston University and an M.S. in Library Science from Simmons College.

The revised edition of Cates' bibliographic guide to print and electronic sources in print and broadcast journalism adds about 200 individual entries and a new chapter on Internet sources; it details Web-based resources, portals, online files, listservs, newsgroups, and weblogs. Cates, a librarian who created and directed the library at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, also has made significant revisions to the chapters on directories, yearbooks, and collections; core periodicals; societies and associations; research centers and archives; and miscellaneous sources. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR