Contents: K.R. Sanders, Foreword. L.L. Kaid, Introduction and Overview of the Field. Part I:Theories and Approaches to Political Communication. E.M. Rogers, Theoretical Diversity in Political Communication. B.I. Newman, R.M. Perloff, Political Marketing: Theory, Research, and Applications. D.A. Graber, Methodological Developments in Political Communication Research. Y. Lin, Fragmentation of Structure of Political Communication Research: Diversification or Isolation? K.J.M. Haynes, Design and Creation of a Controlled Vocabulary for Political Communication. Part II:Political Messages. B.E. Gronbeck, Rhetoric and Politics. L.L. Kaid, Political Advertising. M.S. McKinney, D.B. Carlin, Political Campaign Debates. Part III:News Media Coverage of Politics, Political Issues, and Political Institutions. G.J. Gulati, M.R. Just, A.N. Crigler, News Coverage of Political Campaigns. D. Weaver, M. McCombs, D.L. Shaw, Agenda-Setting Research: Issues, Attributes, and Influences. W.L. Bennett, Gatekeeping and Press--Government Relations: A Multigated Model of News Construction. A. McKay, D.L. Paletz, The Presidency and the Media. Part IV:Political Communication and Public Opinion. E. Noelle-Neumann, T. Petersen, The Spiral of Silence and the Social Nature of Man. M. Sotirovic, J.M. McLeod, Knowledge as Understanding: The Information Processing Approach to Political Learning. M.X. Delli Carpini, Mediating Democratic Engagement: The Impact of Communications on Citizens' Involvement in Political and Civic Life. D.G. Bystrom, Women as Political Communication Sources and Audiences. Part V:International Perspectives on Political Communication. C. Holtz-Bacha, Political Communication Research Abroad: Europe. L. Willnat, A.J. Aw, Political Communication in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities. Part VI:New Trends in Political Communication Channels and Messages. J.C. Tedesco, Changing the Channel: Use of the Internet for Communicating About Politics.

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Handbook of Political Communication Research

This paper describes the latest version of the ABC metadata model. This model has been developed within the Harmony international digital library project to provide a common conceptual model to facilitate interoperability between metadata ontologies from different domains. This updated ABC model is the result of collaboration with the CIMI consortium whereby earlier versions of the ABC model were applied to metadata descriptions of complex objects provided by CIMI museums and libraries. The result is a metadata model with more logically grounded time and entity semantics. Based on this model we have been able to build a metadata repository of RDF descriptions and a search interface which is capable of more sophisticated queries than less-expressive, object-centric metadata models will allow.

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The ABC Ontology and Model

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The Civic Empowerment Gap: Defining the Problem and Locating Solutions

A core ontology is one of the key building blocks necessary to enable the scalable assimilation of information from diverse multimedia sources. A complete and extensible ontology that expresses the basic concepts that are common across a variety of domains and media types and that can provide the basis for specialization into domain-specific concepts and vocabularies, is essential for well-defined mappings between domain-specific knowledge representations (i.e., metadata vocabularies) and the subsequent building of a variety of services such as cross-domain searching, tracking, browsing, data mining and knowledge acquisition. As more and more communities develop metadata application profiles which combine terms from multiple vocabularies (e.g., Dublin Core, MPEG-7, MPEG-21, CIDOC/CRM, FGDC, IMS), a core ontology will provide a common understanding of the basic entities and relationships, which is essential for semantic interoperability and the development of additional services based on deductive inferencing. In this paper, we first propose such a core ontology (the ABC model) which was developed in response to a need to integrate information from multiple genres of multimedia content within digital libraries and archives. Although the MPEG-21 RDD was influenced by the ABC model and is based on a model extremely similar to ABC, we believe that it is important to define a separate and domain-independent top-level extensible ontology for scenarios in which either MPEG-21 is irrelevant or to enable the attachment of ontologies from communities external to MPEG, for example, the museum domain (CIDOC/CRM) or the biomedical domain (ON9.3). We evaluate the ABC model's ability to mediate and integrate between multimedia metadata vocabularies by illustrating how it can provide the foundation to facilitate semantic interoperability between MPEG-7, MPEG-21 and other domain-specific metadata vocabularies. By expressing the semantics of both MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 metadata terms in RDF Schema/DAML+OIL [and eventually the Web Ontology Language (OWL)] and attaching the MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 class and property hierarchies to the appropriate top-level classes and properties of the ABC model, we have defined a single distributed machine-understandable ontology. The resulting ontology provides semantic knowledge which is nonexistent within declarative XML schemas or XML-encoded metadata descriptions. Finally, in order to illustrate how such an ontology will contribute to the interoperability of data and services across the entire multimedia content delivery chain, we describe a number of valuable services which have been developed or could potentially be developed using the resulting merged ontologies.

Enhancing the semantic interoperability of multimedia through a core ontology

Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In The Atlas of New Librarianship, R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities.

The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities.

To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankes offers a map, a visual representation of the field that can guide explorations of it; more than 140 Agreements, statements about librarianship that range from relevant theories to examples of practice; and Threads, arrangements of Agreements to explain key ideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundations and skills and . Agreement Supplements at the end of the book offer expanded discussions. Although it touches on theory as well as practice, theAtlas is meant to be a tool: textbook, conversation guide, platform for social networking, and call to action.

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The Atlas of New Librarianship

From the impact of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, including amendments, to technology's potential for increasing productivity, you need to keep abreast of the latest changes and the newest innovations.These detailed guides will help you: -- Determine hardware and software needs for technical services workstations-- Accurately catalog material from serials to reproductions to interactive multimedia-- Integrate preservation activities into the acquisition processThe essential working tool for catalogers in public, academic, school, and special libraries. Integrates the complete text of the 1978 edition (with corrections) and all changes authorized since 1978 by the Joint Steering Committee. Additions include rules for digital sound recordings and microcomputer software, regulations for certain nonprint and cartographic materials, wider coverage of materials for the visually impaired, and revised appendixes and glossary. Published jointly by the Canadian Library Association and The Library Association, London.The 1993 Amendments are available as a separate packet.

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules

A veteran of four decades of library service and one of today's leading library thinkers, Michael Gorman opens a discussion on library values--those that are rooted in historical perspective and those that can adapt to changing times. This provocative book takes you through the principles of eight core values as it considers the questions on the minds of most librarians today, including: *What is the role of the library today? *What is librarianship in the 21st Century? *What do patrons and communities want from their libraries? *Will libraries be strengthened or destroyed by new and changing technology? *How can I maintain the core values of librarianship into the future? A must-read for progressive librarians everywhere, Our Enduring Values will help you to define your role in the library of the future.

Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century

This text aims to show that in place of futuristic dreaming and madness, libraries can embrace advanced technologies while retaining their role as service-oriented repositories of all formats of organized information and knowledge.

Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, and Reality

This paper advances the idea that there is a crisis in library education, varying in severity from country to country and calls for a new (or resuscitated) model of library education that will meet the demands of libraries and librarianship in the years to come. Among the problems seen are that library schools have become hosts to information science and information studies faculty and curricula. These disciplines are, at best, peripheral to professional library work and, at worst, inimical to it. There is a growing gender divide in Library and Information Science (LIS) schools between “information science”‐oriented male teachers and library course‐oriented female teachers. Many of the topics regarded as central to a library education by would‐be employers are no longer central to, or even required by, today's LIS curricula. Modern communications technology has led many library educators to concentrate on that technology and dismiss anything about libraries that is not amenable to a technological solution. The gap between what is taught in many LIS schools and what is being practiced in libraries is wide and widening. This paper calls for a national core curriculum that would apply to all schools in a country.

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Michael Gorman

Papers

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules

Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century

Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, and Reality

Whither library education

Human values in a technological age: A librarian looks 100 years forward and backward