reviews 580 College & Research Libraries November 1997 rights in television programs and motion pictures, facilitated Hollywood’s capture of new cable and video technology.” Bettig’s arguments are cogent and well supported. He cites media and com- munications theorists and sociologists extensively, in particular Thomas Guback, Graham Murdock, Anthony Giddens, and William Domhoff; a Marx- ist influence is pervasive. The excellent bibliography also includes relevant gov- ernment publications and an extensive examination of popular and trade titles in business, film, and media fields. Although the book includes a chapter examining various “acts of resistance” against the intellectual property system, it is not clear what the alternative would be. But Bettig does succeed in present- ing an excellent case for reexamining the institution of intellectual property law. He argues convincingly that the existing system fails to validate the two basic philosophical justifications for granting intellectual property rights: “first, that these rights encourage production and dissemination of artistic and intellectual creativity through pecuniary rewards to actual creators; and second, that they stimulate dissemination of this work to the benefit of society as a whole.” Why should we be concerned? The author repeats oft-voiced concerns about the impact of market control on the diversity and accessibility of intel- lectual and creative work. “More and more, knowledge and culture are being privately appropriated and submitted to the logic of the marketplace.” Fewer movies are available in more theaters; and these are most often products of major studios. There is increasing con- cern about the availability of informa- tion and entertainment programming to the economically or technologically dis- advantaged. The growth of pay-televi- sion and the shift of programming to pay-per-view or subscription continue to erode entertainment and information options for those who cannot pay. The focus of Bettig’s argument is on the filmed entertainment industry, but the same trends are developing with the Internet. In fact, many of the players are the same. Although doom-and- gloom warnings are unwarranted, there are, indisputably, implications for infor- mation users and providers. Unrelent- ing scrutiny of developments and trends concerning the Internet and other information services is merited, lest monopolistic control, the likes of which Bettig describes for the filmed entertainment industry, prevails.— Janita Jobe, University of Nevada. Doheny-Farina, Stephen. The Wired Neighborhood. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Pr., 1996. 224p. $25, alk. paper (ISBN 0-300-06765-8). LC 96- 12241. When you move away from a place, you vow to keep up with your friends by letter, telephone, and e-mail. But do you? Eventually, and inevitably, all but the stron- gest friendships eventually fade without frequent personal contact and new, shared experience. Stephen Doheny-Farina knows this well and, in The Wired Neighbor- hood, tells us that the wonders of the elec- tronic universe, often touted as a way of uniting us, can, instead, divide us. No technophobe, Doheny-Farina is a comfortable user of MOOs and other tech- nology but sees a disturbing trend among people who prefer virtual to real commu- nication. The net, he feels, may be a place, but it is not as important a place as those where people actually live and work. Liv- ing on the Net has a long-term tendency to alienate us from our neighbors and our community, where real life must be lived. The answer, Doheny-Farina be- lieves, lies in relatively unexciting, but important, developments such as com- munity FreeNets, measured “not by the amount of international connectiv- ity they provide but only by the inten- sity of their local connectivity.” Of course, the promise of FreeNets, like Book Reviews 581 the promise of radio and television before them, can and probably will be compromised and controlled by com- mercial forces, if only because indi- viduals and local groups cannot afford to maintain the whiz-bang, high-pro- duction-value presentations we have come to expect. Ultimately, Doheny-Farina coun- sels community activism and touts “Neigh-Nets,” “the next step beyond the Free-Net in the evolution of com- munity nets.” The Neigh-Net can be used to welcome new neighbors, mar- k e t b a b y - s i t t i n g s e r v i c e s , s u p p o r t neighborhood businesses, publicize local events, and “debate local issues, from taxes to traffic to crime to poli- tics.” Throughout his book, Doheny-Fa- rina, an associate professor at Clarkson University, contrasts the cold and somewhat culturally barren char- acter of his home with the seductive, but ultimately evil, bright lights of the big city, and by analogy, contrasts the down-to-earth community activism he counsels with the seductive, but ulti- mately misguided, desire to flee the provinces for the big city. He prizes his hard-fought achievement in becoming a part of his environment and coun- sels others to do the same. “The net . . . is a seductive electronic specter. Take part in it not to connect to the world but to connect to your city, your town, your neighborhood.”—William Miller, Florida Atlantic University. Megill, Kenneth. The Corporate Memory: Information Management in the Elec- tronic Age. London: Bowker-Saur (In- formation Services Management, 6), 1997. 112p. $50, alk. paper (ISBN 1- 85739-158-6). LC 96-43103. This is a slight volume with a large scope. In a mere one hundred and twelve pages, Kenneth Megill summa- rizes the contributions of the three in- terrelated fields of records manage- ment, special librarianship, and ar- chives to the management of corporate information systems; and he charts a new course for information systems in the face of shifting technological and managerial patterns. Megill, director of the Information Resources Manage- ment Program within the School of Li- brary and Information Science at Catholic University, begins with two basic premises: (1) The advent of elec- tronic data systems is radically chang- ing the way information is used by cor- porations, and (2) changes from within and without corporations require new ways of maintaining the information that makes up corporate memories. These new ways involve an integration of activities currently divided among records managers, archivists, librar- ians, and computer personnel. Megill argues that traditional paper systems are giving way to online systems with shared databases. The role of the cor- porate memory manager will be to iden- tify appropriate data, make them avail- able through networks, and provide indexes and search mechanisms. In- stead of historical files in one central- ized location, there will be historical data residing alongside newly generated data in an ongoing and online system. The concept of corporate memory is defined as the active and historical infor- mation in an organization that is worth sharing, managing, and preserving for later reuse. Traditionally, this information has resided in the experiences and knowl- edge of individual employees or in the thousands of documents produced in the course of business. Megill argues that the development of computer networks and shared databases, the increased recog- nition of information as a commodity, and shifting employment patterns have long- term repercussions for the field of infor- mation management. Further, the nature of corporate structures is undergoing a fundamental change, moving away from top-down hierarchies. 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