From Hildegard to Holiday: Collection Development in Women in Music for the Small Library.

Women musicians were virtually ignored in the literature of Western music until their recent inclusion in standard reference sources and other publications. However, making these works available to the researcher becomes a challenge for library collection development departments, especially for small libraries unaffiliated with music schools that have only a modest music collection and budget. This paper offers guidance in developing a small collection of books on women in music that will complement the current collection and provide amore accuratehistory of Western music. Justification for building a collection on women musicians and an annotated list of recommended books are included. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]