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Bibliographic Control of Music, 1897-2000.

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Bibliographic Control of Music, 1897-2000. By Richard P. Smiraglia; compiled and edited with J. Bradford Young. (Music Library Association Index and Bibliography Series, No. 32.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006. [xi, 146 p. ISBN-10: 0810851334; ISBN-13: 9780810851337. $40.] Indexes.

This book is a must-read for music catalogers (novice or veteran) and a should-read for music librarians not directly involved with cataloging. Richard Smiraglia, a well-respected and beloved name among music catalogers, with J. Bradford Young, has published yet another helpful resource for this group. A number of Smiraglia's former publications are treasured for their assistance in the daily details of cataloging practice, such as, Music Cataloging: The Bibliographic Control of Printed and Recorded Music in Libraries (Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1989) and Describing Music Materials: A Manual for Descriptive Cataloging of Printed and Recorded Music, Music Videos, and Archival Music Collections, for Use with AACR2 and APPM (Lake Crystal, MN: Soldier Creek Press, 1997). This book under review has a different focus, which is to fill a gap in the literature "to support historical and theoretical research into the organization of music in libraries" (p. 1).

Smiraglia begins by recounting an interesting story of how this book came into existence. He explains that the research for this project began in 1983 in two segments of concentrated research with the aid of two sets of graduate assistants...

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