Dictionaries and terminology

• Handbook of communication history
• The international encyclopedia of media studies
• Communication, cultural and media studies: the key concepts [online or print]
• A dictionary of cultural and critical theory
• The telecommunications illustrated dictionary [online or print]
• International dictionary of broadcasting and film [online or  print]
• Critical dictionary of film and television theory [online or  print]
• Television studies: the key concepts [online or  print]

Encyclopedias

• International encyclopedia of communication
• Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications
• Encyclopedia of communication theory
• Encyclopedia of children, adolescents, and the media [online or  print]
• Encyclopedia of information science and technology [online or print]
• Museum of Broadcast Communications: Encyclopedia of television [online or print]
• Museum of Broadcast Communications: Encyclopedia of radio [online or print]
• The encyclopedia of new media [online or  print]
• Internet encyclopedia [v.1 A-F ; v.2 G-O ; v.3 P-Z or print]

Biographical information

• Cultural theory: the key thinkers [online or  print]
• Search the Catalogue for last name, first name in the Browse Search by subject to find an individual's biography. For example, Rogers, Ted.

Chronologies

• Media history project - hosted at the University of Minnesota
• Mass media: a chronological encyclopedia of television, radio, motion pictures, magazines, newspapers, and books. [print]