Mark McKnight is Associate Head of the Music Library at the University of North Texas, where he coordinates music cataloging activities. He also teaches courses in the UNT College of Music Division of Theory, History, and Ethnomusicology, as well as in the School of Library and Information Science.Prior to his appointment at UNT he was Music and Audiovisual Catalog Librarian at Loyola University in New Orleans. Dr. McKnight is active in the Music Library Association, where he has held a number of offices and has served as Assistant Editor of Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. He has written and lectured extensively in his areas of scholarly interest and research, which include 19th-century American music criticism, early American sheet music, and the music of Louisiana and New Orleans.Publications include articles and reviews in Notes, American Music, Black Music Research Journal, Music Publishing and Collecting: Essays in Honor of Donald W. Krummel.He is also author of Music Classification Systems (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002). His current project: The Music of New Orleans: A History.