The Music Library physical space will be closed
Friday, October 9, 2020.
We will continue offering remote services during our operating hours
(8am to 5pm).
For immediate assistance, please send a message via Facebook, Microsoft Teams, or by sending a message to musiclib@uh.edu.
We look forward to seeing you in the library on Monday, October 12th.
Take Good Care.
The Music Library physical space will be closed
Tuesday & Wednesday September 22-23, 2020.
We will continue offering remote services during our operating hours (8am to 5pm).
For immediate assistance, please send a message via Facebook, Microsoft Teams, or by sending a message to musiclib@uh.edu.
Stay safe and dry.
GOTV 2020
Election day is coming!
The Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts is launching the “Pick A Date, Take A Buddy” Campaign for the 2020 election. Visit the polls and bring a friend!
Please join us for the Get out the Vote, Fall 2020 Virtual Town Hall Meeting, Friday, September 18th at 4pm.
Click here to Join the Virtual Town Hall and learn more about the Get out the Vote initiative.
Re-Opening the Music Library
The Music Library will re-open, Monday, August 17 with the following hours:
Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm
Curbside Pick-up hours 11:00am-1:00pm
The Music Library will ensure continued access to services and library collections, both physical and virtual, with consideration for the safety of library users and staff. The Music Library will employ sanitation, use of PPE, and quarantine of spaces and materials as appropriate.
Services Provided:
Access to physical space with limited occupancy (55 patrons)
Computers available with limited seating.
Research support, consultations, instruction and course reserves offered digitally and physically.
Staff may page print collection materials, CDs, DVDs and reserve items for users to limit stacks access.
Scanning services
Mail delivery of Music Library general print materials, CDs and DVDs (subject to change) are available by arrangement.
For more on borrowing privileges, click here.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
Call for Submissions
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections seeks stories and perspectives from UH students pertaining to the coronavirus outbreak.
It is important that the experiences of UH students during this challenging time are recorded and preserved in the University Archives. UH students are encouraged to share their stories and creative works — such as performing and visual arts, drawings, songs, monologues–of this unique moment in history for preservation and accessibility.
For more information and to submit stories, visit UH Students! Share Your Experience of the Coronavirus Outbreak.
University of Houston Libraries stands in opposition to the racism and systemic injustices that shape the lives of Black people in the United States. Black lives matter. We grieve the death of George Floyd, who belonged to the Third Ward and Screwed Up Click communities that we have been honored to work with in building the UH Houston Hip Hop Research Collection. We grieve for Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others lost to racist and police-inflicted violence. We share in the sorrow and anger of our community and stand in solidarity with protests against police brutality. This statement affirms our commitment to equity, inclusion, diversity, and anti-racist practices and our pledge to use our skills and resources to advance the sharing and production of knowledge for racial justice.
Some Good News…
Due to COVID–19 and the unavailability of print collections to users, HathiTrust is expanding access temporarily to full text!
HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access (to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law), computational access to the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries.
HathiTrust has matched the University of Houston print holdings to HathiTrust holdings, and for every match it finds, it will allow full text access to those UH titles. Based on this matching, they report that we will now have full text access to almost 48% of our print collection.
Current UH faculty, students and staff will need to login to HathiTrust, choose the “University of Houston” from the drop–down menu, then use their Cougarnet credentials to access materials.
Specifically, the University of Houston will have:
- Reading access to the book online, within a web browser.
- Ability to “check out” a copy for a limited period of time (1 hour). Access will renew automatically at the end of that hour, unless another user requests the book after that hour is over.
If you have additional questions, please feel free to reach out at musiclib@uh.edu.
For UH Libraries COVID-19 updates please visit: https://libraries.uh.edu/covid-19/
For Music Library updates please subscribe to the UH Music Library Blog: https://weblogs.lib.uh.edu/music/
Take Good Care and Happy Reading!
Madelyn Shackelford Washington, Coordinator of the Music Library.
During the period of the stay at home order, the M. D. Anderson Library will be closed. The main library will close as scheduled at 10:45pm Tuesday, March 24, 2020 and will not reopen until further notice. The three subject libraries (Music, Health Sciences, and Art, Design, and Architecture) are closed and will not reopen until further notice.
The Libraries’ Covid-19 webpage has been updated to reflect closing of the physical spaces. It also provides information on the full range of virtual services that continue to be available. The page will be updated continuously.
REMOTE SERVICES AVAILABLE
- Reference and research consultations
- Instruction
- Scan and email requested book chapters from available Course Reserves
- Purchase Materials (it is likely that we will only be able to make electronic materials available)
COMMUNICATION
The Music Library’s general email address (musiclib@uh.edu) will be monitored from 8am–5pm, Monday–Friday. Emails sent to this address are forwarded to all three full-time staff.
To contact any full-time staff member of the Music Library directly please visit:
https://apps.lib.uh.edu/staff/members/department/Music-Library
To ask a question, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page,
https://ask.lib.uh.edu/ and click “Ask Us”
Moving forward…
I hope this message finds you in high spirits and good health.
As the COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented personal and institutional challenges, I wanted you to let you know that effective 5pm on Friday, March 20, the Music Library will close until further notice and provide services remotely.
Please lean on us for questions about access to electronic resources, instruction requests, research consultations, literature search assistance, and more! You may contact us directly, or by using the department email, musiclib@uh.edu.
We look forward to serving the faculty, students and staff of the University of Houston during this time of transition.
Take Good Care,
Madelyn Shackelford Washington, Coordinator of the Music Library
We launched a new library search engine that simplifies the process of locating materials.
Updates will continue for the next several months.