Philip Montgomery
Texas Medical Center Library Head of the McGovern Historical Center
Houston, TX
Philip Montgomery is the Head of the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center Library in Houston. The McGovern Historical Collections is dedicated to preserving the history of medicine with a focus on Houston and Texas. He worked as an archivist and special collections librarian at Rice University's Woodson Research Center before taking his current position in 2010. He received his MLIS from the University of North Texas in Denton in 2005 and became a certified archivist by the Academy of Certified Archivists in 2006. He is currently working with archivists in the U.S. and Japan to create a consortium of archives dedicated to preserving and improving accessibility to Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission records. His current interests include using crowd sourcing and other types of social media as a way to transcribe and translate documents and generate public interest, managing archives, improving accessibility for the public, preserving and improving access to rare medical books, and collaborating with other institutions to create new public resources. When he has time, he stills loves to dig through boxes and longs for that archival AH-HA! moment.