As a service to faculty, UH Libraries will process and upload your works into the institutional repository, providing free and open online access to your research and scholarship.
This fall, the Digital Research Commons will host a series of events based on various digital research methods.
To offer a comprehensive introduction to each skill set, the DRC offers events in clusters. Each cluster will consist of three consecutive weeks with a lecture, a hands-on workshop, and a colloquium at which attendees can discuss their works in progress. Future clusters will cover topics including text mining and machine learning.
Cluster One: Network Analysis, October 29 at 12 noon
The first cluster begins with a lecture from assistant professor of management Kristin Cullen-Lester of the C.T. Bauer College of Business, who will discuss “Integrating Networks and Leadership Development: Opportunities and Challenges.” Cullen-Lester’s talk will cover various kinds of network visualizations and methods of network analysis.
The next two events in the network analysis cluster are a hands-on workshop, at 12 noon in the DRC on November 5, and the colloquium, at 12 noon on November 12. The workshop will be a walk-through using current datasets on pre-configured machines. Space at the workshop is strictly limited; please email drc@uh.edu by November 1 if you would like to attend.
Network Analysis
Talk, Kristin Cullen-Lester: 12 noon, October 29
Hands-on workshop: 12 noon, November 5
Colloquium: 12 noon, November 12
We launched a new library search engine that simplifies the process of locating materials.
Updates will continue for the next several months.
Questions and feedback
Dear Music Library Patrons,
We are excited to announce that UH Libraries will move to a new search platform and catalog interface at the end of July. Overall, this will change how the main search on the library website functions and how you search for materials such as books, scores, and articles through the library. You can find out more information now, and get more specific details over the next couple of weeks, from our user guide.
How will this change impact you?
- If you link to specific books/resources in Blackboard or your course syllabus, you will need to update those links post-July 23rd (old links will work until Aug 30th to give you some time to transition, but they will stop working at that point)
- Your library account for book checkouts will change interfaces
- You will probably want to test out the new search to see if there any changes that you or your students need to know
What isn’t changing? These things will remain the same:
- Our ILL system, through which you can request articles, books, and other materials which UH doesn’t have access to
- Searching for articles or data through specific databases such as JSTOR, Science Direct, or EEBO
Who can you contact if things aren’t working after July 23rd?
- You can always ask for help in the music library, but if you’d like to reach out directly then the person to contact is Lee Hilyer (lahilyer@uh.edu).
If you have questions, please feel free to pay us a visit. The music library staff is happy to chat further with you to understand any questions or concerns that you might have.
This summer, UH Libraries will be implementing a new search platform that will provide a catalog with enhanced functionality. The change is expected to go live July 23, 2019.
We are very excited to introduce this new search platform called Alma. It offers all of the searching functionality of our current catalog, and will provide more effective access to all of our resources.
Information about changes and new features will be posted soon. How you access your library account, and what materials you can access, will not change.
Alma has been implemented by major research libraries across North America, including Harvard University, University of Minnesota, University of Southern California, and University of Iowa.
If you have any questions about the new search platform, please contact user experience coordinator Daniel Pshock or head of Information and Access Services Lee Hilyer.
The Music Library has a new exhibit case!
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Exhibit content- Kyrie Bouressa, UH music student
Exhibit display- Stephanie Lewin-Lane & Kaylie Kahlich, Music Library staff
We are very excited to have a new case to feature items from our collection. The case is located between the Beta Space and Seminar Room doors. Displays will rotate throughout the year and we will be opening up slots for students to try their hand at curating exhibits tied to the performing arts and scholarly research.
The current display is A Midsummer Night’s Dream and is co-curated by our own student worker Kyrie. Please stop by to see the entire exhibit, complete with a fairy garden.
If you are interested in curating a display, please inquire at the front desk in the Music Library for more details.
Naxos recently made a few changes to their search engine, s
o if you notice a few differences in your Naxos search results, this could be why.. The new updates include the following:
1. Exact phrase matches are prioritized over partial word matches – i.e. search for “mozart german dances”. From the old search it could return all albums from Mozart first, then tracks with “German” and/or “Dances”, but not from Mozart, since it searches word per word. In the new search it considers the exact phrase prior to looking for matches of every single word. This behavior reduces the unnecessary results.
2. It searches for all information within the album – Some results may seem irrelevant since the album title does not contain the keywords used. However, if you open the album you can notice that there are information that inside it that matched exactly with the keywords. i.e. I searched for “the arrival of germontt”. This keyword is not found in the title but if you open the album, you can see that it actually has a track title matching the keyword.
3. Commonly searched/accessed albums are prioritized – The search will return all correct matches but the more commonly searched or accessed albums are ranked higher than the others. To trim down the results, it is encouraged to use more specific keywords, or maximize the now refined advanced search.
4. Restricted albums are no longer listed – Albums that are restricted to the user’s country will no longer be listed in the results, thus the reducing the search returns.
5. Searching for word with diacritics is now supported – Users can now search for albums, tracks, persons that are spelled with diacritics using the common English alphabets, thus returning the exact results.
A new version of Grove/Oxford Music Online was released on December 7, 2017, resulting in some changes to the interface and consequent user issues.
In response, the Music Library Association (MLA) will host a temporary blog list of questions, tips, and updates about the new version. The blog will also accept submissions of new issues and tips through a form located in the post.
Banned Books Week is September 25-October 1. During that time, come check out our Banned Music exhibit and see music-related items from our library that were banned throughout history. This year, our exhibit focuses on Banned Band Music. Get it?
Our exhibit focuses on 3 examples of censored band music. The first is Max Roach’s jazz band album, We Insist- Freedom Now Suite. Filled with political activism, it was banned in South Africa for its criticism of a government-led massacre. The next work is Paul Hindemith’s concert band piece, Symphony in B Flat. This work was banned by the Nazi regime during its crusade against so-called degenerate art. The third censored work is John Philip Sousa’s The Wets and the Drys. This satirical piece imagines an interaction between 2 groups of tee-totalers and drinkers. A dry county in New Jersey was not amused by Sousa’s plan to perform this piece.
Our exhibit is part of a nationwide event, Banned Books Week, which annually celebrates the freedom to seek and express ideas, even those considered unorthodox or unpopular. For more information, check out http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/.
It is our policy that all library users have access to materials that are complete, UNMARKED, and well-organized. Therefore, in accordance with the UH Libraries Code of Conduct, and as an extension of our Score Clean-Up and Maintenance Project, the Music Library has instituted a fine for each item that is returned to the library with writing and/or markings created by the borrowing patron.
HOW DOES THIS POLICY AFFECT YOU?
- BEFORE you bring an item to the circulation desk for check-out, carefully inspect the score and all parts for markings or damage.
- Alert Music Library Staff to all markings or damage
- Pre-existing conditions will be noted, and you will not be held responsible for them when you return the item.
- For scores returned to the Music Library with markings and/or damage that has NOT been noted by library staff:
- A fine of $10 will be applied to your account to cover the cost of erasing and repairing the item
- If the markings and/or damage are irreparable, you will be charged a replacement fee for the item