{"id":876,"date":"2022-07-21T13:08:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T18:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weblogs.lib.uh.edu\/music\/?p=876"},"modified":"2024-06-11T12:50:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T17:50:27","slug":"2022-library-excellence-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/music\/news\/2022-library-excellence-awards","title":{"rendered":"2022 Library Excellence Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019 employees and their agility during the intentional restructure of the Libraries to better align with the University\u2019s mission and vision.<\/p>\r\n<p>This year\u2019s John P. McGovern Outstanding Student award recipient is Ricardo Jimenez Montoya, a doctoral student at the Moores School of Music. Montoya\u2019s positive attitude has made a strong impression on colleagues at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/locations\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Music Library<\/a>\u00a0and fellow students engaged in music performance, scholarship and beyond.\u00a0As 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.<\/p>\r\n<p>Eric Larsen is the McGovern Staff Rookie of the Year. Larsen is excellent at assisting music library patrons\u00a0 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.<\/p>\r\n<p>Come by the music library to congratulate Eric &amp; Ricardo on their tremendous accomplishments!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}