Welcome
Richard Griscom is the head of the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the coauthor of The Recorder: A Research and Information Guide and former editor of the quarterly journal of the Music Library Association, Notes.
Heatherwold history: H.H. Furness, Lindenshade, and Subrosa
If you've ever walked down Furness Lane to its end, you might have noticed a red-brick building to the right that doesn't look like other buildings in the neighborhood. When my wife and I first walked by the building, I thought it might have been an old schoolhouse.
Web exhibit on Philadelphia musician Francis Johnson
An exhibit on Philadelphia musician and composer Francis Johnson, curated by Griscom and on display in the Van Pelt Library from 2007 to 2009, is now available as a web exhibit, Francis Johnson: Music Master of Early Philadelphia.
Directions in Music Cataloging
Over the past year, Griscom has been working on Directions in Music Cataloging, a set of essays written in memory of A. Ralph Papakhian. Griscom edited the volume with Peter H. Lisius, and it was published by A-R Editions late in 2011.
In Directions in Music Cataloging, ten of the field’s top theoreticians and practitioners address the issues that are affecting the discovery and use of music in libraries today.
The Recorder: A Research and Information Guide, 3rd ed.
The third edition of the award-winning The Recorder: A Research and Information Guide, containing David Lasocki's annotations for over 400 articles and books that have appeared since the publication of the second edition in 2003, was published in January 2012.
Exhibit on Ormandy and television
Now available on the web: Griscom's exhibit "Coming to the Small Screen: Ormandy and Television," which was on display in the Ormandy Exhibit Gallery of the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library from November 2005 until November 2007.
Article on MLA-L published
"MLA-L at Twenty," a history of the Music Library Association Distribution List was published in Notes in March 2009. A preprint is available from Griscom's Selected Works site.
Memoirs of George Rochberg published in May 2009
Five Lines, Four Spaces, the memoirs of composer George Rochberg, edited by Griscom and the composer's wife, Gene Rochberg, was published in May 2009 by the University of Illinois Press. The book has been reviewed in the Sept./Oct. 2009 issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette and the June 2010 issue of Notes.