Richard P. Smiraglia shares his personal evolution from early
studies in music, to music cataloging, instantiation theory, and
knowledge organization. People who have impacted his career
and research direction are featured, as well as his work editing
such publications as Library Resources & Technical Services, The
Soldier Creek Music Series, and his continuing editorship of the
journal Knowledge Organization. His contributions to the fields of
cataloging, especially music cataloging, and his research in
instantiation, domain analysis, and knowledge organization
serve to advance Patrick Wilson’s notion of exploitative power
within a connected universe of knowledge.
