Email:ottervik@mailbox.sc.edu
Phone: (803) 777-5425

Jennifer Ottervik has been Head of the Music Library at the University of South Carolina since 1996. She attended the University of North Texas, earning a B.A. in Piano, an M.S. in Library Science, and an M.M. in Musicology. In addition to being a tenured librarian, she serves as Adjunct Professor in the School of Music and in the School of Library and Information Science. She teaches MUSC707 (Bibliography & Research), MUSC747 (Advanced Research), SLIS744 (Music Librarianship), and has taught SCCC467c (The Collision of Musical Cultures: African-American Music in the New World) for the Honors College.

Jennifer has been Editor of the Taylor & Francis peer-reviewed journal Music Reference Services Quarterly since 2003. She was appointed Placement Officer for the Music Library Association in 2003, a position she held through 2007. In 1997, she was recipient of MLA’s Walter Gerboth Award and its "Best of Chapters" Award in 1999 for her research and subsequent paper entitled "Jazz in Opera: It Ain't Over til the Fat Lady Swings." She has served on MLA's Personnel, Publications, Marketing, and Membership committees.