"Sharing the Knowledge"

International CIDOC CRM Symposium

March 26 - 27, 2003

Richard Smiraglia

Professor
Palmer School of LIS
Long Island University
720 Northern Blvd.
Brookville NY 11548

Email: Richard.Smiraglia@liu.edu
http://phoenix.liunet.edu/~smiragli/

Richard P. Smiraglia is Professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University in Brookville New York. He teaches courses in knowledge organization and research methods. Before coming to the Palmer School he was assistant professor at Columbia University's School of Library Service, and before that Music Catalog Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has served as editor of Library Resources & Technical Services, and is editor-designate of the ISKO journal Knowledge Organization. His most recent monograph is The Nature of a Work (Scarecrow Press, 2001), in which he offers the first book-length treatment of the topic of works and their roles in knowledge organization. Just published is Works as Entities for Information Retrieval (Haworth Press, 2002), in which an international panel of authors describe the many facets of the work entity.