Smiraglia, Richard P(aul)

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SMIRAGLIA, Richard P(aul)

SMIRAGLIA, Richard P(aul). American, b. 1952. Genres: Information science/Computers. Career: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, assistant music catalog librarian, 1974-78, music catalog librarian and associate professor of library administration, 1978-86, visiting instructor, 1985-86; Columbia University, NYC, assistant professor of library service, 1987-93; Long Island University, Brookville, NY, professor of library and information science, 1993-; consultant to Union Catalog of Motion Picture Music, Kurt Weill Foundation, and National Museum of American History. Ordained Episcopal priest, 1998; pastor of Episcopal churches in NYC, Philadelphia, 1997-; pastor for outreach ministry to the "unchurched gay and lesbian community," 1996-. Publications: Shelflisting Music: Guidelines for Use with the Library of Congress Classification M, 1981; (music arranger and transcriber) R.A. Wright and R.L. Wright, Danish Emigrant Ballads and Songs, 1983; Cataloging Music: A Manual for Use with AACR2, 1983, 2nd ed., 1986; Music Cataloging: The Bibliographic Control of Printed and Recorded Music in Libraries, 1989; Describing Music Materials: A Manual for Use with AACR2 and APPM, 3rd ed., 1996; The Nature of a Walk, 2001. EDITOR: (with S.S. Intner) Policy and Practice in the Bibliographic Control of Nonbook Materials, 1987; Describing Archival Materials: The Use of the MARC AMC Format, 1990; (and contrib.) Origins, Content, and Future of AACR2, rev. ed., 1992; Works as Entities for Information Retrieval, 2002. Contributor to periodicals. Address: Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University, 720 Northern Blvd, Brookville, NY 11548, U.S.A. Online address: Richard.Smiraglia@liu.edu

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