About the Journalism Collection
Find out more about the collection, including strengths, locations, and formats.
Collection Description
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Collection Description
The Doe Library/Gardner Main Stacks collection in journalism supports
research in that subject and related fields such as mass communications,
literature, history and sociology, and can be of interest to students
of new information systems. The collection's strengths are in personal
narratives by journalists and books about journalism history, with
selective addition of titles about aspects of contemporary journalism's
writing and production. The library also provides access to databases
indexing articles about journalism, and others supplying fulltext
news content.
The focus of the Graduate School of Journalism is to produce professional
journalists; given its emphasis on contemporary practice and methodology,
its need for the research library's collections in journalism has
been limited (though the students can and do turn to the library
for information on just about any other topic under the sun). The
School has its own very small library, which is available only
to those affiliated with the program.
Of course, for anyone interested in contemporary news media, one
of the most pressing needs is to keep up with the rapid change
in information systems. Much of the current information about subjects
like citizen journalists publishing blogs is outside of the library's
purview, though we do try to supply current recommended links to
relevant websites (see the "web gateways" entry under "Research
Tools for Journalism."
The primary location for journalism titles is the Doe Library
reference center and the connected Gardner Main Stacks. The online
sources provided by the Library are available to any Internet address
in the UC Berkeley domain; faculty, staff and currently registered
students can also access them remotely by using the proxy
server.
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