Page 8 RAIN July 1982 also provide access to other on-line databases, such as DIALOG, at cost plus a $2.00 service fee. Public Interest Computer Services PO Box 1061 Berkeley, CA 94701 415-654-9880 Provides computer services to progressive groups and small businesses with public interest goals. Services include list maintenance, word processing, and database management. Sourcenet PO Box 6767 Santa Barbara, CA 93111 805-685-4444 Sourcenet provides computer services to local residents and has recently begun to compile databases, with the first one being a directory to 1500 alternative and community publications from around the country. Networking Networking: The First Report and Directory, Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps, 1982, 398 pp., $15.95 from: Doubleday & Co. 245 Park Avenue New York, NY10167 Networking is a much-needed, accurate (and poetic!) account of what is happening in/with/to the social change movement. Now I know what to point to when someone asks "whatever happened to aU those radicals of the sbcties?" Networking is without a doubt THE best reporting on today's movement I've read. It is an incredibly mature piece of writing, full of humor, insights, and imagery that makes manageable what might be difficult for some readers unfamiliar with the subject matter. "Outsiders" might find the topic fascinating, but in the long run. Networking will be of most benefit to those who are already (or soon to be) part of what Lipnack and Stamp® call "Another America," the consciousness and heartbeat of the movement. Networking is two books in one. The first carefully describes the concepts of networking and divides the networks into sub-categories. These are healing networks — health and life cycle; sharing networks — communities and coop)era- tives; using networks — ecology and energy; valuing networks — politics and economics; learning networks — education and communications; growing netVillage Design (Community Memory) PO Box 9% Berkeley, CA 94701 Publishers of the Journal of Community Communications, one of the best journals dealing with computers, telecommunications, networks, community information and information politics. Also inheritors of the Community Memory legacy that goes back to the installation of computers in public places as electronic bulletin boards. They are developing software and information systems for community-based organizations. Volunteers in Technical Assistance 3706 Rhode Island Ave. Mt. Rainer, MD 20712 301-277-7000 VITA provides technical assistance through providing information, consultants and volunteers to projects that assist developing countries with technology development. They presently assist the works — p>ersonal and spiritual growth; and evolving networks — global and futures. While examining these parts separately, Lipnack and Stamps manage to give us a coherent picture of the whole. The "second book" is the dirctory, the shaded-comered and coded pages which mark the listings of some 1600 groups exemplifying each of the typ>es of networks Lipnack and Stamps describe. In addition, the groups are cross-referenced alphabetically, geographically, by issues and interests, and by a sampling of publications — a remarkable feat and an indispensable reference! It is evident that Lipnack and Stamps have infused their work with great love and respect. And because of this. Networking can and will — for those of us who read and use it — further the cause and vision of our own work. — Nancy Gosper Media Access Guide, 1982, 34 pp. $6.00 ppd. from; Metrocenter YMCA 909 Fourth Avenue Seattle, WA98V)4 The 1982 Oregon Media Guide, €9 pp., $7.50 from: Center for Urban Education 0245 SW Bancroft Portland, OR 97201 If you are a Northwest resident and want to get your message out but are not sure where to start, two media guides have recently been published that can help. Control Data Corporation in developing its Technology for Development Data Base, which Control Data offers to subscribers via computers and computer terminals on a subscription basis. For about a year they have supported a satellite conferencing program linking users of renewable energy information in the South Pacific to VITA staff/volunteers in the United States. In March 1982 they hosted a meeting to discuss issues concerning the information revolution's impact on developing countries. Women's Resources/Computers 613 Lombard St. Philadelphia, PA 19147 215-922-4403 A nonprofit feminist computer project that seeks to use information technology for outreach, networking, resource sharing and communication in the women's movement. Both list newspapers, radio, and television stations; and both give solid advice and examples of ways to communicate more effectively with and through the media. The Media Access Guide will help reach out in the King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish counties of western Washington. The strength of this guide lies in the strategies and techniques outlined for making effective use of the media. It details the hows, whys, and wherefores of a simple press release for an event, a public service announcement, or a press conference or story of major dimensions. It separates the media into dailies, weeklies, radio, and TV, followed by the directory listings. The Guide even takes you through the process of dealing with a complaint about improper media coverage, and ends with the names and addresses, in mailing list format, of the major media outlets in the Puget Sound area. The 1982 Oregon Media Guide, in its fifth edition bigger and better than ever, lists all of Oregon's media geographically. Access details the publishers, owner, circulation, format, scope, contacts, and comments. Special interest publications and newsletters from such categories as "The Arts," "Business," "Church," "Government," and "Public Affairs" are included, along with a listing of media groups and associations. The guide is indexed by medium and by city. The 1982 version of the Oregon Media Guide has gone up in price but, as one Oregon activist who uses it frequently put it". . .it is worth it's weight in gold." — Nancy Cosper
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