M.Div., The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, New York, 1997.

Ph.D., University of Chicago, Graduate Library School, 1992:

M.L.S., Indiana University, Graduate Library School, Bloomington, IN, August 1974

B.A. (Music), Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, June 1973

Professor, Palmer School of Library & Information Science, Long Island University (Brookville, NY), January, 1993-   (tenure granted Fall 1994; promoted to rank of Professor Fall 1997). For a list of graduate research advised, including dissertations, see section 6.3 below.

Assistant Professor, School of Library Service, Columbia University, January, 1987-1993.

Visiting Instructor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985-1986.

Music Catalog Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration (tenure and promotion from Assistant Professor granted Fall 1980), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978-1986.

Assistant Music Catalog Librarian for Scores and Assistant Professor of Library Administration (promotion granted from Instructor Fall 1977), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974-1978.

Metadata: A Cataloger’s Primer. Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Press, 2005.

Bibliographic Control of Music: A Retrospective Bibliography 1882-2000. 2005. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press for the Music Library Association.

Shelflisting Music: Guidelines for Use with the Library of Congress Classification: M. 2^nd edition. At press. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press for the Music Library Association.

Works as Entities for Information Retrieval. New York: Haworth Press, 2002.

The Nature of A Work: Implications for the Organization of Knowledge. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001.

Describing Music Materials: A Manual for Use with AACR2 and APPM. 3rd ed.  Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek Press, 1996.

Authority Control and the Extent of Derivative Bibliographic Relationships.  Ph.D. dissertation.  University of Chicago, 1992.

Origins, Content, and Future of AACR2 Revised, ed. Richard P. Smiraglia.  ALCTS Papers on Library Technical Services and Collections no. 3.  Chicago: ALCTS, 1992.

Describing Archival Materials: The Use of the MARC AMC Format.   Richard P. Smiraglia, ed.  New York: Haworth Press, 1990.

Music Cataloging: The Bibliographic Control of Printed and Recorded Music in Libraries.   Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1989.

Policy and Practice in the Bibliographic Control of Nonbook Materials.  Edited by Sheila S. Intner and Richard P. Smiraglia.  Chicago: American Library Association, 1987.

Cataloging Music: A Manual for Use with AACR2.  2nd ed.  Lake Crystal, MN: Soldier Creek Press, 1986.

Cataloging Music: A Manual for Use with AACR 2.  Lake Crystal, MN: Soldier Creek Press, 1983.

Danish Emigrant Ballads and Songs.  Rochelle A. Wright and Robert L. Wright; music arranged and transcribed by Richard P. Smiraglia.  Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. 

Shelflisting Music: Guidelines for Use with the Library of Congress Classification: M.  MLA Technical Reports, no. 9.  Philadelphia: Music Library Association, 1981.

"Defining Bibliographic 'Works:' Naïve Classification for Terminology Generation." In Proceedings I Simposio Internacional sobre Organización del Conocimiento, Bibliotecología y Terminología, Centro Universidad de Investigaciones Bibliotecologías, Ciudad de Mexico, 27 al 29 agosto de 2007. Forthcoming.

"Bibliographic and Other Works." Bates, Marcia, and Niles Maack, Mary, eds. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 3rd ed. New York: Taylor & Francis. Forthcoming.

"Performance Works: Continuing to Comprehend Instantiation." In Proceedings of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization. June 14-15 Toronto, Canada." In Tennis, Joseph ed, Proceedings .... http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/view/conference/North_American_Symposium_on_Knowledge_Organization_2007.html.

"Two Kinds of Power: insight into the legacy of Patrick Wilson." In Information Sharing in a Fragmented World: Crossing Boundaries: Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Information Science annual conference May 12-15, 2007, ed. Kimiz Dalkir and Clément Arsenault. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/2007proceedings.htm.

"A glimpse at knowledge organization in North America: an editorial." Knowledge organization 34 (2007): 69-71.

"When is a terracotta hut urn like a sailor's deck-log?: meaning instantiated across virtual boundaries." Museums & the Web 2007 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/smiraglia/smiraglia.html.

"The works phenomenon and best-selling books." Cataloging & classification quarterly 44n3/4 (2007): 179-95

"Knowledge map of information science: implications for the future of the field." Co-authors Anthony Debons, Clare Beghtol, Michael Buckland, Charles Davis, Gordana Dodig, Nicolae Dragulanescu, Glynn Harmon, Don Kraft, Roberto Poli, Richard Smiraglia, Chaim Zins. Brazilian Journal of Information Science forthcoming October 2007.

"On the importance of the curatorial function: an editorial." Knowledge organization 33 (2006): 185-87.

"Instantiation: Empirical Emergence of a Global Phenomenon." In Exploring the Limits of Global Models for Integration and Use of Historical and Scientific Information, October 23-24 2006,ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/workshops/octocer_23_2006_presentations.htm.

"Rethinking what we catalog: documents as cultural artifacts." Cataloging & classification quarterly forthcoming.

"Bibliographic Families and Superworks." In Understanding FRBR: What it is and how it will affect our Retrieval Tools, ed. Arlene G. Taylor. Libraries Unlimited, at press.

"Whither knowledge organization: an editorial." Knowledge organization 33 (2006): 8-10.

"Empiricism as the basis for metadata categorization: Expanding the case for instantiation with archival documents." In Knowledge Organization and the Global Learning Society; Proceedings of the 9th ISKO International Conference, Vienna, July 4-7 2006, ed. Gerhard Budin, Christian Swertz, Konstantin Mitgutsch, pp. 383-88.

"Music Information Retrieval: An Example of Bates'Substrate?" In Information Science Revisited: Approaches to Innovation: Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Information Science annual conference June 1-3 2006, ed. Haidar Moukdad. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/search.asp?year=2006.

"About knowledge organization: an editorial." Knowledge Organization 32 (2005): 139-40.

"Instantiation: Toward a theory." In Data, information, and knowledge in a networked world: Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Information Science annual conference June 2-4 2005, ed. Liwen Vaughan. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/search.asp?year=2005.

“Authority Control of Works: Cataloging’s Chimera.” Cataloging & classification quarterly 38n3/4 (2004):291-308.

"Content Metadata-An analysis of Etruscan artifactsin a museum of archeology." Cataloging & classification quarterly 40 n3/4 (2005):135-51.

 “Knowledge Sharing and Content Genealogy: Extending the “Works” Model as a Metaphor for Non-Documentary Artifacts with Case Studies of Etruscan Artifacts.” In McIlwaine, Ia C., ed. Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society; Proceedings of the Eighth International ISKO Conference 13-16 July London UK. Advances in knowledge organization v. 9. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2004, pp. 309-14.

 “From Encyclopedism to Domain-Based Ontology for Knowledge Management: The Evolution of the Sachs Classification.” In McIlwaine, Ia C., ed. Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society; Proceedings of the Eighth International ISKO Conference 13-16 July London UK. Advances in knowledge organization v. 9. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2004, pp. 167-72.

 “The Centrality of the Work as Component for Knowledge Sharing.” Proceedings of international CIDOC/CRM Symposium, March 2003, The Smithsonian Institution. http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/symposiun_abstracts/doc_files/smira_presentation.ppt.

"Further progress in theory in knowledge organization." Canadian journal of information and library science. 26 n2/3 (2002): 30-49.

“Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Perspectives on the Popularity of Works. In Challenges in knowledge representation and organization for the 21^st century, Integration of knowledge across boundaries, Proceedings of the 7^th International ISKO Conference, 10-13 July 2002, Granada, Spain ed. Maria J. Lopez-Huertas. Wurzburg: Ergon, 2002, pp. 530-9.

“Further Reflections on The Nature of A Work.” Cataloging & classification quarterly 33n3/4 (2002): 1-11.

“The History of ‘The Work’ in the Modern Catalog.” Cataloging & classification quarterly 35n3/4 (2003): 553-67.

“Musical works and information retrieval.” Notes: The quarterly journal of the Music Library Assn. 58 (2002): 747-64.

"Bridget’s Revelations, William of Ockham’s Tractatus, and Doctrine and Covenants: Qualitative Analysis and Epistemological Perspectives on Theological Works." Cataloging & classification quarterly 33n3/4 (2002): 225-51.

“Works as signs, symbols, and canons: The epistemology of the work.” Knowledge organization 28 (2002): 192-202.

"Musical Works as Information Retrieval Entities: Epistemological Perspectives." ISMIR 2001: October 15-17, 2001 2nd Annual International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval ed. J. Stephen Downie and David Bainbridge. Bloomington, IN: ISMIR 2001, 2001, pp. 85-92.

“The progress of theory in knowledge organization.” Library trends 50 (2002): 300-49.

"Words and Works; Signs, Symbols and Canons: The Epistemology of The Work."  In Dynamisn and Stability in Knowledge Organization: Proceedings of the Sixth International ISKO Conference, 10-13 July 2000, Toronto, Canada, ed. Clare Beghtol, Lynn C. Howarth, Nancy J. Williamson. Advances in Knowledge Organization v. 7. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2000, pp. 295-300.

"Bibliographic Families in the Library Catalog: A Qualitative Analysis and Grounded Theory." Gregory H. Leazer and Richard P. Smiraglia. Library Resources & Technical Services 43 (1999): 191-212.

"Derivative Bibliographic Relationships Among Theological Works." Proceedings of the 62nd annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science, ed. Larry Woods.  Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1999, pp. 497-506.

"Derivative Bibliographic Relationships: The Work Relationship in the OCLC Online Union Catalog" Richard P. Smiraglia and Gregory H. Leazer.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 (1999): 493-505.

"Beyond the Score:" David H. Thomas and Richard P. Smiraglia. Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 54 (1998): 649-66.

"Toward the Bibliographic Control of Works: Derivative Bibliographic Relationships in an Online Union Catalog" Gregory H. Leazer and Richard P. Smiraglia.  In Digital Libraries '96: 1st ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, March 20-23, 1996, Bethesda, Maryland.  ACM, 1996.

"The Light in the Piazza: Glimpses of the Bibliographic Universe."  In Ventures in Research series 17, ed. Sheila McKenna.  ([Brookville: Long Island Univ.], Faculty of the C.W. Post Center, [1996]).

"Toward the Bibliographic Control of Works: Derivative Bibliographic Relationships in the Online Union Catalog" Richard P. Smiraglia and Gregory H. Leazer. OCLC Annual Review of Research 1995.

"Derivative Bibliographic Relationships: Linkage in the Bibliographic Universe."  Navigating the Networks: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Mid-Year Meeting 1994 (Medford, N.J.: Learned Information, Inc., 1994).

"Reflecting The Maturation Of A Profession: Thirty-Five Years Of Library Resources & Technical Services." Richard P. Smiraglia and Gregory H. Leazer.  Library Resources & Technical Services 38 (1994): 27-46.

"The Continuous Revision Process," In Origins, Content, and Future of AACR2 Revised.  Chicago: Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, 1992.

"Careers in Music Technical Services."  In Careers in Music Librarianship: Perspectives from the Field,  comp. Carol Tatian.  MLA Technical Reports, no. 18. Canton, MA: Music Library Association, 1990, pp. 67-76.

"New Promise for the Universal Control of Recorded Knowledge."  Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 11n3/4 (1990):1-15.

"Radical Change with Minimal Disruption: The Effect of Revised 780 on the University of Illinois Library Shelf Arrangement," by Charles Forrest and Richard P. Smiraglia.  In In Celebration of Revised 780: Music in the Dewey Decimal Classification Edition 20,  comp. Richard B. Wursten.  MLA Technical Reports, no. 19 Canton, MA: Music Library Association, 1990, pp. 60-77.

"Subject Access to Archival Materials using LCSH."   Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 11n3/4 (1990): 63-90.

"Authority Control and Uniform Titles for Music: Some Implications of Research."  In Authority Control in Music Libraries,  ed. Ruth Tucker.  MLA Technical Reports, no. 16.  Canton, MA: Music Library Association, 1989, pp. 63-70.

"Music Uniform Titles: An Exercise in Collocating Works."  Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 9n3(1989): 97-114.

"The Consolidated Reprinting of AACR2."  Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 8n1 (1987): 3-6.

"Theoretical Considerations in the Bibliographic Control of Music Materials in Libraries."  Cataloging & Classification Quarterly  5n3 (1985):1-16.

"Names of Persons and Organizations Associated with the Musical Creation."  In Retrospective Conversion of Music Materials.  Washington, D.C.: Bibliographic Services Development Program, Council on Library Resources, 1984, pp. 9-21.

"The Role of Empirical Research in Standards for Music-Librarianship."  In Music Library Association Midwest  Chapter Newsletter (Spring 1983): 8-9.

"REMUS (Retrospective Music)."  In Proceedings of the Oglebay Institute on Quality Control.  Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Regional Library Center; Dublin, OH: Online Computer Library Center, 1983, pp. 108-115.

"Music in the OCLC Online Union Catalog: A Review," by Arsen R. Papakhian and Richard P. Smiraglia.  Notes 38 (1981): 257-274.

"AACR2: The First Year at Urbana."  In "Communications," Notes 37 (1980): 712-715.

"Closing the Music Catalogues: AACR2 at the University of Illinois Music Library."  Cum notis variorum 46 (1980):13-15.

"Comments on OCLC's Response to the MOUG OCLC Music Cataloging User Survey."  In Music OCLC Users Group Newsletter 9 (1980): 9-10.

"Results of the MOUG OCLC Music Cataloging Survey," by Ralph Papakhian and Richard P. Smiraglia.  Music OCLC Users Group Newsletter 7 (1980): 12-19.

Cataloging cultural objects, a guide to describing cultural works and their images, ed. Murtha Baca (ALA Press, 2006), Technical Services Quarterly at press 2007.

Saving the user’s time through subject access innovation, ed. William J. Wheeler. papers in honor of Pauline Atherton Cochrane. Univ. of Ill. Grad. Sch. of Library and Information Science, 2000.

Information and information systems by Michael Buckland (Greenwood Press, 1991).  Library Resources & Technical Services 37 (1993): 236-8.

Cataloging special materials (Oryx Press, 1986). Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 8 no2 (1987): 145-8.

Advances in library automation and networking, v1, 1987. The Library Quarterly 58 (1988): 319-20.

Library services in theory and context. The Library Quarterly 55 (1985): 247-8.

"Defining Bibliographic 'Works:' Naïve Classification for Terminology Generation." I Simposio Internacional sobre Organización del Conocimiento, Bibliotecología y Terminología, Centro Universidad de Investigaciones Bibliotecologías, Ciudad de Mexico, 27 al 29 agosto de 2007.

"The Concept of 'Authorities' in Library Cataloging." FRBR/CRM Harmonization Meeting No. 10, 9-12 July 2007, National E-Science Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

"Performance Works: Continuing to Comprehend Instantiation." North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization. June 14-15 2007, Toronto, Canada.

"Two Kinds of Power: insight into the legacy of Patrick Wilson." Canadian Association for Information Science annual conference May 12-15, 2007

"When is a terracotta hut urn like a sailor's deck-log?: meaning instantiated across virtual boundaries." Museums & the Web 2007, San Francisco April 11-14, 2007.

"Instantiation: Empirical Emergence of a Global Phenomenon." Exploring the Limits of Global Models for Integration and Use of Historical and Scientific Information, October 23-24 2006, ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

"Empiricism as the basis for metadata categorization: Expanding the case for instantiation with archival documents." 9th ISKO International Conference, Vienna, July 4-7 2006.

"Music Information Retrieval: An Example of Bates'Substrate?" Canadian Association for Information Science annual conference June 1-3 2006, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

"Instantiation: Toward a theory." Canadian Association for Information Science annual conference June 2-4 2005, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

"The Nature of a Work." Presented as part of Document, Record, Work: The Basic Units of Analysis in Information Studies (SIG HFIS). American Society for Information Science & Technology, Annual Meeting, Nov. 12-17 2004, Providence RI.

"Musical Works as Information Retrieval Entities." Presented as part of Interdisciplinary Concepts of the 'Work' Entity: Crossing Cultural Boundaries for Information Retrieval (SIGs CR, HFIS). American Society for Information Science & Technology, Annual Meeting, Nov. 12-17 2004, Providence RI.

"Toward a theory of instantiation." Canadian Association for Information Science annual conference June 2-4 2005, University of Western Ontario, London.

“Humanizing Information Retrieval: Organizing ‘Works’.” Annual Conference, American Society for Information Science & Technology, Long Beach, California, October 22, 2003.

“The Concept of ‘A Work’.” First invitational FRBR/CIDOC CRM Harmonization Conference, Bibliotheque National de France, Paris 13 November 2003.

“From Encyclopedism to Domain-Based Ontology for Knowledge Management: The Evolution of the Sachs Classification.” Eighth International ISKO Conference, London UK, July 14, 2003.

“Knowledge Sharing and Content Genealogy: Extending the “Works” Model as a Metaphor for Non-Documentary Artifacts with Case Studies of Etruscan Artifacts.” Eighth International ISKO Conference, London UK, July 16, 2003.

“Musical Works: The Problem for Music Information Retrieval.” Journée d’étude, Cité de la Musique, Paris, France, October 11, 2002.

“The Centrality of the Work as Component for Knowledge Sharing.” International CIDOC/CRM Symposium, March 2003, The Smithsonian Institution.

“Further Progress in Theory in Knowledge Organization.” Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Meeting, Toronto, May 30, 2002.

“Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Perspectives on the Popularity of Works. International Society for Knowledge Organization 7^th International Conference, Granada, Spain, July 13, 2002.

“Information as Process.” The 64^th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2001.

“Musical Works as Information Retrieval Entities: Epistemological Perspectives.” The 2^nd International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, Bloomington, Indiana, Oct. 16, 2001.

“Epistemological Stances on the Nature of a Work.” College of Information Science & Technology, Drexel University, February 1, 2001.

“The Nature of a Work,” Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, January 21, 2001.

“Words and Works; Signs, Symbols and Canons: The Epistemology of The Work.” International Society for Knowledge Organization 6^th International Conference, Toronto, July 16, 2000.

“Derivative Bibliographic Relationships Among Theological Works.” The 62^nd annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington, DC, October 31, 1999.

“A Professor’s Unity: Research, Publication, and Teaching.” SIG Doctoral Students “Is Academia for Me?” Annual Meeting, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Philadelphia, PA, January 1999.

"Toward the Bibliographic Control of Works: Derivative Bibliographic Relationships in an Online Union Catalog" 1st ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, March 20-23, 1996, Bethesda, Maryland.

“Research and Publication for Librarians.” Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, Mid-Winter Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, January 1995.

“Derivative Bibliographic Relationships.” American Society for Information Science Mid-Year Meeting, Portland, OR, May 24, 1994.

“Linkage in the Bibliographic Universe.” Colloquium: Toward the Future of the Catalog. Palmer School in Manhattan, April 13, 1994.

“Linkage in the Bibliographic Universe.” Colloquium: Toward the Future of the Catalog. Metropolitan New York Music Library Assn., June 10, 1994.

"From Soup to Nuts: A Methodology for Subject Analysis of Archival Collections." Presented to the Society of American Archivists, Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, October 25, 1989.

"How to Succeed at Rule Revision." Presented to the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Workshop on AACR2 Revised.

"Continuous Revision: An Exercise in Bibliographic Democracy." Presented to the American Library Association, Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, July 10, 1988.

"Opening Doors: Education for Music Technical Services." Presented to the Music Library Association, Annual Meeting_, Minneapolis, MN, February 13, 1988.

"Music and the Consolidated Reprinting of AACR2." Presented to the Pennsylvania Chapter, Music Library Association, 23, 1987. Trenton, NJ, October

"Conceptual Foundations of Uniform Titles." Presented to the ALA LITA/RTSD CCS.Authority Control Interest Group, San Francisco, June 30, 1987.

"Uniform Titles: Toward Justifying Their Use." Presented to the Music Library Association Pre-conference on Authority control, Louisville, KY, March 5, 1985.

"Nonbook Materials and Bibliographic Control Theory." Presentedto ALA/RTSD Nonbook Materials Institutes.

"Names Associated with Musical Creation." Presented to Council on Library Resources Conference on Retrospective Conversion for Music, Wayzata, MN, July 19, 1984.

"REMUS [Retrospective-MUSic]." Presented to the Oglebay Institute on Inter-Network Quality Control, Oglebay, WV, November 13, 1983.

"Music Use of OCLC: A User's Perspective." Presented to the International Association of Music Libraries, Washington, DC, May 9, 1983.

"The Role of Empirical Research in Standards for Music Librarianship." Presented to the Music Library Association Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, October 22, 1982.

"Music in the OCLC Online Union Catalog." Presented to the Music Library Association Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting, Oberlin, OH, October 24, 1981.

"AACR2: the First Year at Urbana." Presented to the Music Library Association Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 31, 1980.

“Report on the MOUG OCLC Music Catlaoging User Survey.” Presented to the Music OCLC Users Group Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, February 25, 1980.

2005. "Content Metadata For Inter-Repository Resource Description." National Science Foundation. May 2005. Not funded.

2005. "Content Metadata Initiative." Submitted to Institute for Museum and Library Service. Proposal for 3-year project, $479,000.00. Not funded. September 2004. Revised, resubmitted September 2005 Not funded.

2004. Content Metadata: Empirical Analysis of Archeological and Anthropological Artifacts. Submitted to OCLC Online Computer Library Center and ALISE Association for Library and Information Science Education. Proposal for 1-year project, $15,000.00. Not funded.

2004. Content Metadata Initiative. Submitted to Institute for Museum and Library Service. Proposal for 3-year project, $479,000.00. Not funded.

2000. Derivative Bibliographic Relationships among ‘Popular’ Works. Applied for from OCLC. Not funded.

1997. Long Island University Research Board, grant in perpetuity of release time and graduate assistance, in acknowledgment of productivity.

1993. The Work Relationship in the OCLC WorldCat. OCLC Office of Research ($10,000).

The following publications report the results of this research (see bibliography for full citations):

"Qualitative Analysis of Derivative Bibliographic Relationships” LRTS 43.

"Derivative Bibliographic Relationships Among Theological Works." ASIST 1999.

"Derivative Bibliographic Relationships” JASIS 50.

"Toward the Bibliographic Control of Works” ACM DL 1996.

"The Light in the Piazza,” 1996.

"Toward the Bibliographic Control of Works. OCLC Annual Review of Research 1995.

1991. Citation Analysis of Library Resources & Technical Services.  Supported by School of Library Service, Columbia University, summer 1991.

The following reports the results of this research:

"Reflecting The Maturation Of A Profession”

1985-86. Uniform Titles in Music. Supported by Research Board, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The following reports the result of this research:

"Music Uniform Titles: An Exercise in Collocating Works."

1985-86. Effect of DDC Phoenix 780.  Supported by University of Illinois Library Research and Publications Committee, 1985-1986.

The following reports the result of this research:

"Radical Change with Minimal Disruption”

1978, Univ. of Illinois Music Library: Co-principal investigator with Jean Geil; applied to NEH for $375,000 for processing of transcription disc recordings of American Music. Not funded.

South Carolina Historical Society Workshop, "Library of Congress Subject Headings for Archival Collections," Oct. 22, 1993.

Society of American Archivists, Workshops, "Library of Congress Subject Headings for Archival Collections." (Chicago, April 28-30, 1988, Atlanta, September 26-27, 1988, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, March 1989, San Jose, CA, August 14-15, 1989, New York, NY, April 14-15, 1989, St. Louis, MO, October 21-22, 1989, Seattle, WA, August 27-28, 1990)

PALINET, Music Cataloging Workshop, Philadelphia, April 12, 1988

MINITEX, Workshop on Music and Sound Recordings, Minneapolis/St. Paul, September 27, 1985.

American LibraryAssociation/Association for Library Collections and Technical Services: AACR2 Revised Institute; member faculty; in plenary sessions "How to Succeed at Rule Revision." (Atlanta, GA, June 27-28, 1991, Cincinnatti, OH, April 3-4, 1989, Oakland, CA, Nov. 3-4, 1989, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 14-15, 1989)

American Library Association/Resources and Technical Services Division: Nonbook Materials Institute; member faculty; in plenary sessions "Nonbook Materials and Bibliographic Control Theory"; in workshops "Music and Sound Recordings." (San Diego, February 23-26, 1984, Washington, DC, October 10-14, 1984, Chicago, April 14-17, 1985, Orlando, FL, May 25-27, 1985, Boston, December 9-11, 1985)

American Library Association/Resources and Technical Services Division/Audio-Visual Committee, and Music Library AssOciation/Cataloging Committee (co-sponsors); AACR2 Workshop, Music and Sound Recordings, San Francisco, June 30, 1981.

Illinois Library Association AACR2 Workshops, specialized level: Printed Music and Sound Recordings; eight workshops presented in two sessions at Springfield and Chicago, July and September, 1980.

Illinois OCLC Users Group Music Score Tagging Workshop, basic level, Chicago Public Library, April 11, 1980.

Music Library Association Workshop on AACR2, San Antonio, TX, February 26, 1980.

Editor-in-Chief, Knowledge Organization, the quarterly journal of The International Society for Knowledge Organization, Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.  Vol. 31, no. 3--

Editor, Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS). Chicago: Association for Library Collections & Technical Services.  Vol. 34n4 (Oct. 1990)-Vol. 40n4 (Oct. 1996).

Member, Editorial board, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (CCQ), 1984-1990; 2001-.

Editor, Technical Reports Series, Canton, Mass.: Music Library Association, 1988-94. The following monographs were produced in my term:

Ruth Tucker. Authority Control in Music Libraries, 1989. MLA technical report, no. 16.

Cassaro, James P. Planning and Caring for Library Audio Facilities, 1989. MLA technical report, no. 17.

Carol Tatian. Careers in Music Librarianship, 1990. MLA technical report, no. 18.

Richard B. Wursten. In Celebration of Revised 780: Music in The Dewey Decimal Classification, Edition 20, 1990. MLA technical report, no. 19.

Cassaro, James P. Space Utilization in Music Libraries, 1991. MLA technical reports, no. 20.

David H. Thomas. Archival Information Processing for Sound Recordings, 1992. MLA technical report, no. 21.

Editor, Soldier Creek Music Series, Soldier Creek Press, 1987-2003.  The following monographs were produced in my term:

Perry Bratcher and Jennifer Smith. Music subject headings, 1988. Soldier Creek music series, no. 1.

Jay Weitz. Music coding and tagging, 1990. Soldier Creek music series, no. 2.

Ralph Hartsock. Notes for music catalogers, 1994. Soldier Creek music series, no. 3.

Harriette Hemmassi. Music subject headings, 2^nd ed. 1998. Soldier Creek music series, no. 4.

Richard P. Smiraglia. Describing Music Materials, 3^rd ed., 1997. Soldier Creek music series, no. 5.

Jay Weitz. Music Coding and Tagging, 2^nd ed., 2001. Soldier Creek music series, no. 6.

Edith Tibbetts and Glenna Marie LeMasters. Uniform song title index (not published).

Gregory Hart Leazer. 1993. A conceptual plan for the description and control of bibliographic works. DLS dissertation, Columbia University.

Mikel Breitenstein. 2003. Toward an understanding of visual literacy: Examination of conference papers of the International Visual Literacy Association. Ph.D. dissertation, Long Island University.

Edmund Pajarillo. 2005. Contextual perspectives of information for home care nurses: Towards a framework of nursing information behavior. Ph.D dissertation. Long Island University.

Jacqueline Ram. 2006. Human factors and ergonomics: Analyzing synergy. Ph.D dissertation. Long Island University.

Julie Kessler. In Progress. Health information management and medical informatics, separate or overlapping? A bibliometric analysis of recent trends in the development of electronic medical records. Ph.D. Candidate, Long Island University. 2005.

Christine Marchese. In Progress. Impact of organizational environment on knowledge representation and use. Ph.D. Candidate, Long Island University. 2005.

Alon Friedman. In Progress. Concept mapping in conference papers in knowledge organization. Ph.D. Candidate, Long Island University. 2007.

Michiko Tanaka. In Progress. Toward an Understanding of Scholarly Communications: Scientific Computing Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Ph.D. Candidate, Long Island University.

David H. Thomas. 1995. The effect of interface design on an information retrieval task. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

2006. Mangalore University, India. Evaluation of Thesis "Information Requirement of Industries in Dakshina Kannada District: A Case Study."

Jeff Gabel. 1998. Finnish grammatical noun case distribution as a case study. Collection management (at press).

Jennifer Cwiok. 2005. The defining element: A discussion of the creator element within metadata schemas. Cataloging & classification quarterly 40 n3/4: 103-34.

John DiMarco. 2007. A state-wide analysis of student web portfolios in New York colleges and universities. International journal of information and communication technology in education. 3 (2).

Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo. 2007. Nursing information behavior (NIB) in the context of help-seeking. Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Montreal, May 10-12.

Gali Yemini–Halevi. 2007. The information needs of homeless library patrons in New York City. Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Montreal, May 10-12.

Alon Friedman. 2006. Concept mapping as a measurable sign. In Knowledge Organization and the Global Learning Society; Proceedings of the 9th ISKO International Conference, Vienna, July 4-7 2006, ed. Gerhard Budin, Christian Swertz, Konstantin Mitgutsch, pp. 131-40.

Jeff Gabel. 2006. Improving information retrieval of subjects through citation analysis. In Knowledge Organization and the Global Learning Society; Proceedings of the 9th ISKO International Conference, Vienna, July 4-7 2006, ed. Gerhard Budin, Christian Swertz, Konstantin Mitgutsch, pp. 19-26.

Edmund Pajarillo. 2006. A classification scheme to determine medical necessity. In Knowledge Organization and the Global Learning Society; Proceedings of the 9th ISKO International Conference, Vienna, July 4-7 2006, ed. Gerhard Budin, Christian Swertz, Konstantin Mitgutsch, pp. 339-48.

Lea Ferraioli. 2005. An exploratory study of metadata creation in a health care agency. Cataloging & classification quarterly 40 n3/4: 75-102.

Drolshagen, JoAnn. 2005. Pictorial representation of quilts from the Underground Railroad. Knowledge organization 32: 141-142.

Tanaka, Michiko. 2005. Toward a proposed ontology for nanoscale research. In Vaughan, Liwen, ed. Data, information and knowledge in a networked world, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, June 2-4, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada.

O'Keefe, Daniel J. 2004. Cultural literacy in a global information society-specific language: an exploratory ontological analysis utilizing comparative taxonomy. In McIlwaine, Ia, ed. Knowledge organization and the global information society: Proceedings of the 8th International ISKO Conference, London, July 13-16, 2004. Advances in knowledge organization, v. 9. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

Ponzi, Len. 2002. The intellectual structure & interdisciplinary breadth of knowledge management. Scientometrics 55: 259-72.

D'Ambrosio, Donna. 2001. Toward an ontology for information systems requirements in systems analysis. Information in a networked world: harnessing the flow. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, November 4-8, 2001, Washington, DC. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

Mackenzie, Maureen L. 2000. The classification, storage and retrieval of electronic mail. In Knowledge innovations: Celebrating our heritage, designing our future: Proceedings of the 63rd ASIS&T Annual Conference, November 11-16, 2000, Chicago, IL. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

Greenberg, Jane. 1993. Intellectual control of visual archives: A comparison between the Art and Architecture Thesaurus and the Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials. Cataloging & classification quarterly 16n1:85-118.

Leazer, Gregory H. 1992. An examination of data elements for bibliographic description: Toward a conceptual schema for the USMARC Formats. Library resources & technical services 36: 189-208.

Hayes, Susan. 1992. Enhanced catalog access to fiction: A preliminary study. Library resources & technical services 36: 441-60.

Vellucci, Sherry L. 1990. Uniform titles as linking devices. Cataloging & classification quarterly 12n1: 35-62.

Alexiev, Boyan. 2007 ff. Knowledge organization for multilingual terminography. Fulbright Senior International Scholar proposal.

 

7.1  Journal Referee

Journal of Documentation, Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Knowledge Organization, Computer Music Journal, Journal of Data Semantics, Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, Library Resources & Technical Services, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Reference Quarterly

7.2  Grant Reviewer or Panelist

Reviewer, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities

Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities (1990)

Reviewer, National Historic Records Preservation Commission.

7.3 Promotion and Tenure Reviewer

Reviewer for promotion to Assoc. Prof. with tenure

Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1999)

Univ. of Washington (2001)

Univ. of Colorado, Boulder (2002)

University of Western Ontario (2004)

University of Washington (2005)

University of Toronto (2006)

University of Montreal (2006)

Reviewer for promotion to the rank of Professor

Univ. of Pittsburgh (1999)

Univ. of Alberta (2001)

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (2003)

University of Toronto (2006)

Music Library Association, Richard Hill Award for Best Article in Music Librarianship, 1999. Shared with David H. Thomas for "Beyond the Score."

Distinguished Alumni, Award for distinguished service in library and information science, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, May 1996.

Music Library Association, Best article-length bibliography or article in music librarianship, 1981.  Shared with A. R. Papakhian for "Music in the OCLC Online Union Catalog."

Biography listed in Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in the Northeast, [formerly in Who’s Who in the Midwest], International Directory of Music and Musicians, Who’s Who in Library and Information Services, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in American Education, The Writer’s Directory Contemporary Authors.

9.1 CONSULTING

United States Merchant Marine Academy Library, Kings Point NY. Consultant on digitization and archival processing of Class of 1942 Archives. 2005-2007.

School of Information and Library Studies, Pratt Insititute, Brooklyn NY. Consultant on knowledge organization curriculum Spring-Summer 2001.

Union Catalog of Motion Picture Music; International Film Music Society, 1994.

Kurt Weill Foundation.  Consultant on archival description of Lotte Lenya papers; supported with grant from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1993-94.

New York Historical Society.  Consultant (with Paul Banks) on sampling technique and statistical analysis for manuscript preservation condition survey, 1991-92.

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, December 19-20, 1988.  Consultation on archival processing of De Vincent Collection of 19th-20th century American sheet music.

 

9.2  PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Library Association (ALA)(member 1980-  )

Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)

Editor, LRTS (1990-1996)

Chair, LRTS Editorial Board (1990-1996)

Member, ex officio, Board of Directors (1990-1993)

Member, ex officio, Publications Committee (1990-1996)

Esther Piercy Award Committee (member 1988-1990; chair 1989-1990)

Nonbook Regional Institute Planning Committee (1983-1985)

Preservation Microfilming Committee (1982-1984)

Cataloging & Classification Section (CCS)

Nominating Committee, Chair, 1992.

1991 Conference Program Committee, 1990-1991.

Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (nonvoting representative of the Music Library Association, 1980-1983; voting member, 1984-1988; chair 1986-1988)

Task Force on Uniform Titles 1981-1982

Task Force on MLA Report 1982-1983

Task Force on MLA Report 1984-1985

Task Force on Rules on Works Realized Through Performance 1985

Task Force on Choice of Entry for Video Performance 1986

Library Research Round Table

Doctoral Students Interest Group Liaison (1993-1994)

Member, Steering Committee (1993-1994)

American Society for Information Science [& Technology](ASIS) (member 1984-    )

Doctoral Student Paper Award Committee, 1992-94 (chair 1993-1994)

Best Article in JASIST Award Committee, 2001

SIG-History and Foundations of Information Science, co-chair 2000-2001, chair 2001-2002, past-chair 2003.

Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) (member 1983-    )

Member, Awards Committee, 2000-2003.

Ad-hoc Committee on Fund-Raising, 1987-1988.

Convenor, Special Interest Group on Technical Services Education 1988-1989.

Awards Committee, 2001-2003.

Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) (member 1980-93)

International Association of Music Libraries and Information Centres (IAML)(member 1973-93)

International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)(member 1999-    )

Executive Committee, ex officio as Editor-in-Chief, 2004-

Founder and Program Chair, ISKO-North America, 2006-

Music Library Association (MLA) (member 1973-94)

Board of Directors, Member at large, 1986-1988; Fiscal Officer, 1987-1988)

Representative to CC:DA (see under ALA above 1980-1983)

Representative to INTERNET (1980-1983)

Representative to Joint Committee on Retrospective Conversion of Music (1984-1986)

Finance Committee (member 1986-1988; Chair 1987-1988)

Subcommittee on Investments (member 1989-1994)

Bibliographic Control Committee (member 1980-1986; Chair 1983-1986)

Subcommittee on AACR2 (member 1980-1983; Chair 1980-1983)

MBMSR Contributing Libraries (member 1974-1982)

Joint Automation/Cataloging Subcommittee on the MARC Format (1980)

Editor, Technical Reports (1988-94)

Publications Committee (member 1988-94)

Roundtable on Research on Music Librarianship (convenor 1989-92)

Roundtable on Social Responsibilities (member 1987-94)

Music OCLC Users Group (member 1978-92)

Treasurer (1980-1982).

Chair (1982-1984)

University Faculty Senate, 1996-2000.

Executive Committee, 1997-2000; President, 1998-2000.

C.W. Post Campus

Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, 2002-2006; Chair 2005-2006; Research Committee, Member, 1995-96; Student Appeals Committee, 1994-95; Ventures in Research Series Planning Committee, 1994.

Palmer School

Personnel Committee, Chair 2006-2007; Curriculum Committee, Chair, 1993-96; PhD. Committee, Chair, 1997-

SLS Committee on Instruction (alternate 1986-1987, 1988-1989, member 1989-91; secretary 1989-91)

SLS Committee on the Doctorate (1987-91; secretary 1988-1989)  

Library Staff Development Committee (member 1975-1978; Chair 1977-1978)

Library, General Services Department, Promotion, Tenure & Salary Advisory Committee (member 1984-1985)

Library Cataloging Policy Advisory Committee (member 1978-86; chair pro temp., fall 1986)

Library, Departmental Library Services Department, Arts & Humanities Council (member 1985-1986)

Member, Board of Directors, Voices Found: The Women's Sacred Music Project, Inc., 2000-2003.