Music Librarianship at the Turn of the Century
Series: Music Library Association Technical Reports #27
Co-published with: Music Library Association

Edited by Richard Griscom and Amanda Maple

SUBJECTS
Music » Music (General)

REVIEWS
"Aspiring librarians, budding professionals, and old hand alike would do well to read and digest the messages in this book." — LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH

DESCRIPTION
Fourteen authors explore the recent past, the present, and the future of music librarianship through an examination of topics of importance to the profession: collection development, preservation, cataloging, technology, copyright, reference, reference sources, user education, music publishing, sound recordings, the antiquarian music market, archives, and education for music librarianship. First published in the quarterly journal Notes, these essays reflect the views of today's professionals at the fin de siècle. The set of essays is framed by a foreword and afterword by editor Richard Griscom.

ABOUT THE EDITORS
Richard Griscom is music librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a former executive secretary of the Music Library Association and served as editor of Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association from 1997 to 2000C.

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