Richard Burbank

Associate Professor of Library Administration and Music Catalog Coordinator

BA in Music, Hunter College; MM in Composition, Manhattan School of Music; MS in Library Service (with honors) and recipient of the Ida Rosen Prize in Music Librarianship, Columbia University.

Richard Burbank was Assistant Creative Arts Librarian at Brandeis University from 1985 to 1986, after which he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Music Catalog Coordinator. He is a member of Music Library Association (national and Midwest Chapter), Music OCLC Users Group, The Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, and International Association for Word and Music Studies. His publications include two books: Charles Wuorinen: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1994) and Twentieth Century Music: Orchestral, Chamber, Operatic and Dance Music, 1900-1980 (Facts On File, published in Great Britain by Thames & Hudson, 1984). He has published articles in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Libraries & Culture, and Information Technology and Libraries. He has contributed articles to The Infography; book reviews in NOTES, notably of Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Classical Musicians (March 1998), Fontes Artis Musicae, Reference & User Services Quarterly, and Library Resources & Technical Services.

Mr. Burbank has received UIUC Library Research & Publication Committee awards for research travel (1987, 1988, 1995), and for data collection and analysis (1991). He has also served as evaluator for the National Endowment for the Humanities and as a referee for NOTES, MLA Technical Reports, and Library Resources & Technical Services.