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Subject Guide - Communication Technology

• Selected Reference Books
• Selected Circulating Books
• Full-Text Books Online
• Print Magazines in Kiefer Library
• Magazine, Journal, & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals
• Other Library Materials
• Searching the Library Catalog
• Selected Web Resources
• Selected Statistical Resources
• Selected Online Images and Other Media
• Other Library Catalogs

Compiled by Sue Liebold, Communication Technology Librarian Liaison. Updated 2006.

Selected Reference Books

REF TK6642.U88 1999 Today’s Video: Equipment, Setup and Production

REF PN 1995.9 .P7K538 2001 Introduction to Media Production

REF PN4783 .A83 1996 The Associated Press Stylebook & Libel Manual

REF TK7881.4 .W48 2005 The Audio Dictionary

Selected Circulating Books

RA 645.5 .C 49 1998 Modern Radio Production

PN 1996.W25 1988 Screenwriting: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television Writing

PN 4784. B75 H38 1992 Crafting the News for Electronic Media: Writing, Reporting and Producing

PN1992.94 .C37 1990 A Beginner Guide to Producing TV: Complete Planning Techniques and Scripts to Shoot

PN4888.B74 H46 2004 Power of the News Media

P96.E25 T8 1992 Media Systems in Society

PN1992.75 .D66 2000 Fundamentals of TV Production

PN 4736.K4 Access Denied: Politics of Press Censorship

Z658.U5 C433 2005 Censorship 2005: Opposing Viewpoints

T58.5 .I5248 2005 Information Ethics: Privacy and Intellectual Property

Full-Text Books Online

NetLibrary
This database includes access to titles such as Writing for Broadcast Journalists, Writing Your Screenplay, Sports Writing Handbook, An Economic History of Film, Techniocal Film and TV for Nontechnical People, Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis, Media Access: Social and Psychological Dimensions of New Technology Use, and The Murdoch Mission: The Digital Transformation of a Media Empire.

Print Magazines in Kiefer Library

Print
Step Inside Design
Communication Arts
Computer Graphics World
American Photography
Videography
Wired
Sound & Vision

The Library’s subscriptions to magazines that are of interest to our Communication Technology students are primarily in electronic format. Full-text articles are available in electronic formats through online databases. (see below)

Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals

Academic Search Premier | Off-Campus Access
Academic Search Premier gives access to many full-test Communications Technology periodicals such as Media & Methods, Journal of Information Technology, Electronic Media, Television Week, and Advertising Age.

Facts on File  | Off-Campus Access

NewsBank  | Off-Campus Access

LexisNexis     |     Off-Campus Access
Newspaper and periodical articles, laws, court decisions, and statistical data. Full-text documents, from news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.

Proquest Research Library | Off-Campus Access
Proquest Research Library give access to many full-text Communications Technology periodicals such as Communications News, Insight on the News, News Media and the Law, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Journalism History, Journalism and Mass communication Quarterly, Journal of Film and Video, Film History and Film Quarterly.

Other Library Materials

VIDEOCASSETTE VHS PN F4 1996 Fear & Favor in the Newsroom

MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE#9-G19 The Making of a Live TV Show

MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #9 H02 Writing for TV

MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE#7-D06 Radio Production, Making a Radio Commercial

Searching the Library Catalog

The above titles are just a few of the resources available for you. The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu/ provides access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in the library catalog:

Public broadcasting, radio broadcasting, radio, news reporter, journalism, mass media, television, electronic news gathering, reporters, American newspapers, journalists, and broadcast journalism.

Selected Web Resources

Society of Professional Journalists
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Society of Broadcast Engineers
Media Education Foundation
First Amendment Handbook
Student Press
Investigate Reporters and Editors Resource Library
Undergroundfilm
Screewriter’s Guild of America
Origins of American Animation
Colorado Press Association

Selected Statistical Resources

U.S. Dept. of Labor News Analyst, Reporter
State of the News Media 2006

Selected Online Images and Other Media

RefDesk.com Pictures/Photography
Women in Journalism
Newseum: The Interactive Museum of News

Other Library Catalogs

Colorado State University
Loveland Public Library
Prospector: Colorado Unified Catalog
University of Northern College Library Catalog
Weld Library District
Windsor-Severance Library Distric