Carleton's Gould library recently received a 12 volume Encyclopedia detailing the communications field. The volumes include biographies of communications theorists and topical, specific, and hard to find, information. Cinema and Media Studies visiting professor Michael Griffin contributed to this work as an author and as Visual Communications Area editor.
Kathleen Collins of John Jay Coll. of Criminal Justice, New York described the release of the International Encyclopedia of Communications with a positive review. She wrote, "Comprehensive though they are, other works covering the same territory—such as Oxford’s 1989 International Encyclopedia of Communications (Erik Barnouw, ed.) and Elsevier’s 2003 Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications (Donald Johnston, ed.), both four-volume sets—do not match this work’s depth of scholarship. Definitive, authoritative, and scholarly, it is highly recommended for academic libraries large and small. [The online version exists as either an annual subscription or a one-time purchase with an annual fee covering hosting and regular updates. Interested readers can find more information online at www.communicationencyclopedia.com.]"
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