Due to the coming inclement weather, the Music Library space will close today, December 22, at 5:00pm
Remote services will be available Friday, December 23 (8:00am-5:00pm)
If you would like to contact the music library staff, please send a message via Facebook, Microsoft Teams, or by sending a message to musiclib@uh.edu.
We look forward to seeing you when we reopen January 2, 2022.
Happy Holidays!
2022 Library Excellence Awards
University of Houston Libraries celebrated its high-performing employees at an awards ceremony this week. The Library Excellence Awards, now in its 22nd year, recognizes librarians and staff who achieve meritorious work goals and embody organizational values of collaboration, empathy, and creativity. Dean of Libraries and Elizabeth D. Rockwell chair Athena N. Jackson opened the Moon Day-themed event, held in-person at the MD Anderson Library Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion and via Zoom, with praise for all Libraries’ employees and their agility during the intentional restructure of the Libraries to better align with the University’s mission and vision.
This year’s John P. McGovern Outstanding Student award recipient is Ricardo Jimenez Montoya, a doctoral student at the Moores School of Music. Montoya’s positive attitude has made a strong impression on colleagues at the Music Library and fellow students engaged in music performance, scholarship and beyond. As a way to increase the audience for Music Library social media content, Montoya created reviews and recommendations for digital display in both English and Spanish. As a violin player in the Mariachi Pumas and instructor at the Suzuki Academy of Music, Montoya is an in-demand practitioner-educator.
Eric Larsen is the McGovern Staff Rookie of the Year. Larsen is excellent at assisting music library patrons with using databases and other library resources, teaching methods of conducting research in a library, and leading library staff to complete special projects. After the pandemic changed the nature of the workplace, Larsen seized the opportunity to pivot by providing a high-level of customer service in a hybrid-flexible environment.
Come by the music library to congratulate Eric & Ricardo on their tremendous accomplishments!