Scarecrow Press / Musc Library Association
Pages: 160
Trim: 6¾ x 9
978-0-8108-5133-7 • Hardback • June 2006 • $66.00 • (£51.00)
978-1-4617-4750-5 • eBook • June 2006 • $62.50 • (£48.00)
Richard P. Smiraglia is Professor at Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University. He is the author of The Nature of "A Work": Implications for the Organization of Knowledge (Scarecrow, 2001).
J. Bradford Young is the music technical services librarian for the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of A Thematic Catalog of the Works of Robert Valentine (Scarecrow, 1994).
Part 1 List of Tables
Part 2 Preface
Part 3 Acknowledgments
Part 4 Introduction
Part 5 From James Duff Brown (1897) to Arsen Ralph Papakhian (2000): An Eassay on the Literature of the Bibliographic Control of Music
Part 6 Bibliographic Control of Music, 1897-2000: Chronological Listing
Part 7 Title Index
Part 8 Author Index
Part 9 Keyword Index
Part 10 Journal Index
Part 11 About the Authors
Music and other librarians will find this list useful to identify the literature of music cataloging during the twentieth century.
— American Reference Books Annual, vol. 38 (2007)
...Smiraglia has filled a surprising gap in the literature of music librarianship. In the process, he has brought back to contemporary consciousness both the practical experience and the theoretical scholarship of a century of music librarians. It could not be more timely...To my knowledge, there has been no comparable full-length bibliography devoted to the bibliographic control of music....[a] solid and valuable contribution to the literature of music librarianship, one that fulfills the wider goal of the chronological bibliography...
— Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS), Vol. 51, No. 1 (January 2007)
Smiraglia and Young's book does a good job of bringing together many useful references concerning an important area of music library work. The introductory historical survey and analytical essay is certainly worth having; and through its chronological arrangement the book serves as a reminder of the work of those library professionals, great and small, who have contributed to the music library landscape.
— 2008; Fontes Artis Musicae