This article reports on the work of the Music Library Association (MLA) Music Thesaurus Project Working Group.

This article reviews the two books "A Most Wondrous Babble: American Art Composers, Their Music, and the American Scene, 1950-1985" and "Art Music in the American Society: The Condition of Art Music in the Late Twentieth Century," both by Nicholas E. Tawa and published in 1987.

This doctoral dissertation discusses music criticism in the New York Times and the New York Tribune from 1851-1876.

This article discusses the discovery of an archive of ancient music near San Rafael and Santa Ana de Velasco.

This article discusses researching New Orleans rhythm and blues.

This doctoral dissertation discusses access to film and video works. Physical and intellectual access to moving image documents is insufficient, often insignificant, at the level of the individual user. Existing access tools suffer from a lack of recognition of the differences between linguistic text communication and image communication. Browsing and relevance judgements are made difficult by the physical realities of film and video documents - one cannot flip through them - and by the habits of serial and passive viewing.

Unpublished manuscript exploring the philosophy in Plato's Phaedo, which describes Socrates’ final moments just before his execution as a swan song, and analyzing the philosophers' beliefs on death and immortality of the soul. This work is part of conference proceedings from the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, December 5, 1987.

This book examines the social and philosophical attitudes in Western culture that relate to the environment including aesthetics, wildlife, and land use. Both the historical significance and a framework for further discussions of environmental ethics are discussed in the book.