"The present publication is an attempt to report on various practical methods adopted throughout the world to promote and develop the reading habit among those literate populations that read little or nothing at all. The countries surveyed represent the major geographic regions of the world and illu
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strate a broad variety of internal structures. For example, leading publishing giants are looked at as well as countries where indigenous publishing is in its earliest stages; highly literate societies are considered as are those which have recently embarked on the path to literacy; monolingual countries and multilingual cultures are both represented here. Yet despite these disparities one common thread emerges: no country is satisfied with the number of active readers it counts among its population and all consider that methods and techniques for increasing reading must be tried and tried again in order to bring books and people together in a lasting aqd fruitful relationship." (Preface)
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"A compendium of over 3,000 film items from around the world with black themes or subject master or substantial participation by blacks as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, animators, or consultants or who even appeared in ancillary or walk-on roles. Klotman sought - but did not alwa
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ys get - the following information for each: film title/series title; narrator/cast; writer, whether screenplay or adaptation; producer, director, studio/company; technical information encompassing film size/color/sound or silent; number of reels/time; date/country or origin; type; distributor/archive; annotation. The approximately 3,000 films are listed alphabetically with the above information, with separate indexes of black performers, author, screenplay writers, producers and directors. It includes not only feature films but also anthropological, avant-garde, experimental and documentary films worldwide." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1323)
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"Although this major exhibition catalog was not designed as a reference book, it serves that purpose well. Its introduction provides a summary of the development of printing in each Brazilian state and gives brief information about many presses. The main body of the catalog reproduces the title page
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s of many printed works from the earliest produced in Brazil (1747) to the early twentieth century, with emphasis on the nineteeth century. Representative works of printers from various states comprise a large part of this section. Notes accompanying the reproductions identify the authors of the works, giving brief biographical information. Index of names of authors and printing presses." (Ann Hartness, Brazil in Reference Books 1965-1989. Scarecrow Press, 1991)
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"Utilise des entretiens avec le public, les éditeurs locaux et les distributeurs de livres afin de trouver des moyens d'améliorer le développement de la lecture en Afrique, d'une part, et une distribution plus efficace de matériel de lecture approprié, d'autre part. L'accent est mis sur le Tcha
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d et le Sénégal." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 379)
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"As political freedom came to the Continent, so did press freedom disappear," is Barton's opening sentence. Although his attitude is definitely colonial, this statement is not as prejudiced as it first appears, for he attempts to put it in a historical perspective by making the case that this trend
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in Africa has happened in many non-African countries which today claim some sort of press freedom. Against this background he surveys in breadth rather than depth first the white colonial press and then the emergent black press in French-speaking Africa, East and Central Africa, Portuguese Africa, "the White South," Swaziland, and "unconquered Africa" - Liberia and Ethiopia. He omits Arab Africa because he feels the cultural differences to be too great." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 27)
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"Discusses the practical contributions made by the [discontinued] Commonwealth Book Development Programme, and describes problems experienced over the funding of training. The author believes that the assistance offered by the programme will continue to be of significant help in assisting Commonweal
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th developing countries to acquire more books." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1396)
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"Communication is defined broadly to include relevant material from such areas as agriculture, anthropology, community development, economics, education, law, political science, population, public administration, sociology, social psychology, and urban studies. Types of material covered are books, p
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amphlets, conference reports, seminar papers, theses and dissertations, research studies, surveys, government annual reports, commission reports, and periodical materials. Some of these are unpublished." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1635)
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"This does as much as can be expected - perhaps more - from an 85-page history of mass communication in Asia. Divided into three sections, it consists of very short chronological accounts of print media in 16 countries, broadcast media in 25, and film in six. This is particularly useful because the
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facts, although scant, go back to beginnings, and because leading newspapers in their respective countries are identified by name. As might be expected, the section on print media is by far the longest, with 50 pages, even though it deals with fewer countries; broadcast media takes up 24 pages; and film only nine." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 305)
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"Obra imprescindible para conocer la historia del periodismo boliviano." (Álvarez/Martínez Riaza: Historia de la prensa hispanoamericana. Madrid 1992)
"Discussion of the creation, manufacture, distribution and promotion of books in indigenous languages in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Arab countries and Latin America. Appendixes include "Guidelines for the Promotion of Books in the Various Languages of Multilingual Countries" and a bibliogranhy." (Ele
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anor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1063)
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