The resources supporting communication disciplines are located principally in the Memorial
Library, which contains over 1 million volumes of books, bound journals, and microforms relating to
the Humanities and Social Sciences and Sciences. Students focusing on regulatory and legal
issues will draw on the collections available to them at Marquette’s Law Library.
Collection Strengths
Quantifying the multi- and interdisciplinary collections in communication is difficult due to
overlap with so many other fields, notably business, marketing, urban affairs and political science,
women’s studies, history, ethics, and psychology. English is the primary language
for acquisitions of both journal and monographic literature and emphasis is on current trends and
practice rather than historical treatments.
To support the College’s mission in its areas of graduate study, the Library’s
collection building gives special attention to the following:
Advertising: Creativity, planning, and management of advertising campaigns; social
and ethical issues; research methods.
Broadcast & Electronic Communication: Commercial radio and television,
instructional public broadcasting, corporate media, cable communication and associated industries,
and telecommunication and public policy
Communication Studies: Theories and research methods; rhetoric; organizational,
intercultural and interpersonal communication; history and law of media and communication;
media and the information society.
Film Studies: Books and journals relating primarily to 20th century
American film and popular culture.
Journalism: Newspaper, magazine and photojournalism; religious mass media;
legal and ethical aspects of journalism; urban journalism and public affairs; journalism education.
Mass Communication: Interdisciplinary foundation, theory and research methods.
Public Relations: principles and media for public relations communication; issues and
account management.
Theatre Arts: Dramaturgical research; pedagogical background for the teaching of
secondary school drama; playwriting; history; dramatic theory and criticism.; theatre management.
Research resources
Access to library materials is via the online catalog, MARQCAT,
covering all campus libraries with access 24-hours daily. Marquette participates in the Federal
Depository program, acquiring a wide variety of state and federal documents which assist particularly
business, marketing and demographic research; statistical studies, monitoring legislative and
regulatory issues, and public affairs. The Library maintains current subscriptions to a strong
collection of research and trade journals, annual reviews, and yearbooks in the communication
disciplines. Journals cover theory and research, including both qualitative and quantitative mass
communication research. To facilitate access to the research literature, the libraries subscribe to a
number of electronic periodical indexes.
The libraries are committed to providing information via current technology. PCs are
available for accessing the World Wide Web and key Web-based information is collected at
subject-related pages in the Library’s Home Page. Articles, Databases, and Other E-resources
section provides full listing of available electronic databases within subject categories. Significant
electronic resources include the following:
ABI-INFORM Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Academic Search Elite
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Alt-Press Watch
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Communication Abstracts
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Communication and Mass Media
Complete Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Communication Studies (SAGE
Full-Text Collection) Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Dissertations and Theses (previously
Dissertation Abstracts) Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
ERIC Available off-campus
to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Ethnic NewsWatch Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Film and Television Literature Index
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only
Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only
National Newspapers
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
PAIS International Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Proquest Research Library
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
PsycINFO
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Psychology in Proquest
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Psychology (SAGE Full-text
Collection) Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Sociological Abstracts
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Sociology (SAGE Full-Text Collection)
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Web of Science (contains Social Sciences
Citation Index) Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
WISCAT (statewide database) Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
Wisconsin Newspapers
(including Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
World News Connection
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
World News Digest
Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.
WorldCat Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only. (OCLC national bibliographic catalog)
Special Services
This brief listing may be explored further in other areas of the Web site, but some of the major
of key privileges and services includes:
Semester borrowing of monographic materials Graduate loan rules.
Open 104 hours weekly plus 24/7 access to Raynor Library 1st floor during fall and spring
semesters. Library
Hours.
Easy off-campus access to electronic journals, databases and other e-resources. Accessing Library E-Resources
from Home.
AskUs! Information Service
- librarians available for help seven days a week during the regular school year -- in person at
Information Desk, telephone (288-7556), e-mail
and virtual reference (online
chat/messaging).
Research
Consultation program -- meet one-on-one with a librarian to discuss your research strategy
or to learn how to use the libraries' resources and databases.
Free interlibrary borrowing of books and articles via libraries' InterLibrary Loan Service.
Access to nearby research
libraries and in-person borrowing via InfoPass program.
Self-service
photocopiers with key card convenience.
Private study
carrels for graduate students by application. Contact the Raynor Library Circulation Desk
(288-7555) for more information.
Two PC-equipped teaching labs available for classes by appointment and for student use when
not scheduled for classes.
Over 230 networked PCs and Macs with access to electronic library resources as well as
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher and photoediting software. Click
here for a full list of hardware and software in Raynor Memorial Libraries.
Laptops available to
be checked-out for in-library use.
Group study
roomsin Raynor Library (some equipped with overhead projectors and screens.) Available
on a first-come, first serve basis, however, some can be reserved ahead of time. For availability
contact the Raynor Library Circulation Desk (288-7555).
Writing Center, administered by
the English Department, for assistance in writing projects.
RefWorks,
Web-based personal bibliography software. |
