Music and other librarians will find this list useful to identify the literature of music cataloging during the twentieth century.

American Reference Books Annual

...Smiraglia has filled a surprising gap in the literature of music librarianship. In the process, he has brought back to contemporary consciousness both the practical experience and the theoretical scholarship of a century of music librarians. It could not be more timely...To my knowledge, there has been no comparable full-length bibliography devoted to the bibliographic control of music....[a] solid and valuable contribution to the literature of music librarianship, one that fulfills the wider goal of the chronological bibliography...

Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS)

Smiraglia and Young's book does a good job of bringing together many useful references concerning an important area of music library work. The introductory historical survey and analytical essay is certainly worth having; and through its chronological arrangement the book serves as a reminder of the work of those library professionals, great and small, who have contributed to the music library landscape.

2008, Fontes Artis Musicae