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Call numbers help you find the areas of the library shelves relevant to your program.

• 174.9097 Mass media - Moral and ethical aspects
• 791.44 Radio
• 791.45 Television

Suggested search terms for topics include the following, which can be used in the library search tool, databases and the internet. Check the help section in the library search tool, each database or search engine for details. Quotation marks (“ “) around words mean that the words will be searched together, in that order, as a phrase. For example: “broadcast journalism”.

• announcing
• broadcast advertising
• broadcast journalism
• broadcasting
• mass media
• news ethics
• newswriting
• radio
• radio broadcasting
• television
• television advertising
• television broadcasting news
• television producing
• television reporting
• video recordings production direction

Selected titles important to your program are listed here.

Basic Radio Skills : Announcing and Presentation
Library Audiovisual Desk: VTC 675 1991
Students may view videos in the Library. Instructors may borrow videos.

Guide to Handling the Media : the Radio Interview
Library Audiovisual Desk: VTC 1860 1991
Students may view videos in the Library. Instructors may borrow videos.

Radio News
Library Audiovisual Desk: VTC 1384 1991
Students may view videos in the Library. Instructors may borrow videos.

Television and Radio Announcing
Library Main Book Shelves: 791.453 H995 2009

Writing for Broadcast News: a Storytelling Approach to Crafting TV and Radio News Reports
Library Main Book Shelves: 791.450232 R161 2006 

The most effective way to find articles is to search the appropriate database.  Databases may include articles from scholarly journals, trade journals, newspapers and magazines. Try the databases listed here first. If you don't find what you need, ask us for more suggestions. You can also browse all of the databases by category.

>Database list

Academic Search Complete
Covers virtually every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences.

Canadian Newsstand
Covers local and national Canadian newspapers with articles, editorials, columns, and features in full text.   Indexes nearly 300 newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, The National Post, Edmonton Journal, and the Calgary Herald.

Canadian Reference Centre
Canadian content coverage that includes magazines and  journals; newspapers and newswire services; and reference books.  Includes also leading international journals (U.S. and UK), biographies, photos, maps and an image file from Canadian Press. Indexes such titles as: Bank of Canada Review, Food in Canada, Canadian Social Trends, Canadian Economic Observer, Benefits Canada, Profit, and Harrowsmith Country Life.

MasterFILE Premier
Covers virtually every subject area at a general interest level.  Indexes more than 2,670 journals, magazines, and trade publications, with over 900 peer-reviewed and over 1,270 available in full-text; also more than 500 reference books, 107,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of over 510,000 photos, maps, and more. Includes such publications as: Advertising Age, Bon Appetit, Conde Nast Traveler, Foreign Affairs, Herizons, JAMA, Nature, Popular Mechanics, Restaurant Business, Science News, Wired and Horticulture.

Regional Business News
Covers regional business news primarily from the U.S., also some Canadian and international sources including from China, Russia, and the Middle East. Indexes newswire services, local newspapers and regional business journals e.g. Canada Newswire, Central Asia Business News, China Business Newswire, Russia & CIS Metals & Mining Weekly.

To locate print and online journals by title check our Journal Title List.  It lists all of the journals that you can access through the Library.

To search for articles remember to use the databases listed under the Articles tab.

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