Krummel honored for lifetime achievement in American music

Donald Krummel

[image1-right:resize-180w]GSLIS Professor Emeritus D. W. Krummel has received the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music for his distinguished research and teaching in American-music printing, publishing, and resources.

Krummel earned degrees in music from the University of Michigan, where he briefly served on the music faculty. He completed his doctorate in library science in 1958, while working in the Music Division of the Library of Congress (1956-61). Later he was head of reference and associate librarian at the Newberry Library in Chicago (1962-69). He also served on the Rare Book School faculty (1990-2008) at Columbia University and in Virginia.

In 1970, Krummel joined the GSLIS faculty, which in 1994 honored him with a festschrift, Music Publishing & Collecting: Essays in Honor of Donald W. Krummel. In addition to his teaching and publications in library science, he has authored and edited several landmarks in music scholarship as well as in bibliography. His seminal Resources of American Music History (1981) provides comprehensive access to the primary materials of American music history. His Bibliographical Handbook of American Music (1987) was honored with the Irving Lowens Book Award. Krummel continues to teach occasional GSLIS courses in bibliography and library history and is currently preparing a study of bibliography in general, to be entitled The Anatomy of Bibliography.

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