Annotations: a guide to the independent critical press - Softcover

Jones, Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965389421 ISBN 13: 9780965389426

Publisher: Alternative Pr Center, 1999

Synopsis

"Annotations: a guide to the independent critical press" is a unique directory designed to enable librarians, activists, writers, editors, reporters, and philanthropic organizations to locate and identify progressive, independent magazines and newspapers.

With a smart design and even smarter indexability, the guide puts a wealth of information about normally hard-to-find publications at your fingertips.

Contributors include Les Wade and Charles D'Adamo of the Alternative Press Center, and Beth Schulman and Robert Rosenthal of the Independent Press Association. Forward is by James Weinstein, founding publisher of In These Times magazine.

About this title

About the Author

Marie Jones, MLS, is an activist and librarian currently working for the library at Muskingum College, in New Concord, Ohio.

Reviews

This second, updated edition of Annotations catalogs 328 leftist and progressive periodicals that, in 1998, were either indexed in the Alternative Press Index or published by members of the Independent Press Association. Included are relatively large-circulation periodicals like the Nation and Mother Jones, but most of the entries are for small-circulation periodicals like Infusion and Social Anarchism. Because very few libraries own the 1996 edition, this reviewer was not able to compare the two editions. This one is certainly more current than the unannotated Progressive Periodicals Directory, published in 1982. The volume includes a good subject index and a "Full Text Availability" section to help patrons identify titles that may already be available through sources like NEXIS, Uncover, or IAC Insite. An excellent, in-depth tool, this would serve as a tremendous collection-development aid to libraries wishing to strengthen their progressive reference holdings.APeter A. Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., MI
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alternative Pr Center
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965389421
• ISBN 13: 9780965389426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512