Guide to Library Research in Music - Paperback

Pauline Shaw Bayne is retired assistant dean of libraries and professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Two web-based resources created by her--UT Song Index and UT Analysis Index--continue to be maintained by the staff of the George F. DeVine Music Library, which Bayne managed for 36 years. She has also written articles about moving library collections, digital audio reserves, delivering instructional media, and computer-based training for library staff. Edward Komara is Distinguished Librarian at the Crane Music Library, the State University of New York at Potsdam. His contributions to music research have been in jazz, blues, rock, and other kinds of music for which recordings are the primary sources. His previous book for Rowman and Littlefield, 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own (with Greg Johnson), received the 2016 Vincent Duckles Award from the Music Library Association for the best book-length bibliography or reference work in music.

Edward Komara is the Crane Librarian of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Previously he was the Music Librarian/Blues Archivist at the University of Mississippi. His chief publications have been about the blues, most recently 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own (with Greg Johnson; Rowman and Littlefield, 2014) and The Road to Robert Johnson (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2007). He has also published essays about jazz musician Charlie Parker, graphic novelist Dave Sim, and our hero Frank Zappa.