Shelf Smarts

Reidy has been named the director of the Research Libraries at the New York Public Library, “putting the 40-year-old music historian at the helm of four vast public research centers whose holdings encompass 17th-century Shakespeare folios and sheet music belonging to Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie and Mozart,” according to the New York Times. “The position gives him an outsized voice on the direction of national humanities research.”

The music major and amateur jazz pianist had been serving as interim director of the Research Libraries since April of 2022.