Student Awards 2011
NEWS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: 1/19/11
CONTACT: LESLIE SCHALER, COMMUNICATION PROGRAM COORDINATOR, (413) 545-0162
UMASS AMHERST LIBRARIES INVITE SUBMISSIONS
FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
~ Book Collecting Contest and Undergraduate Research Award ~
Amherst, MA – The UMass Amherst Libraries invite submissions for two student awards: the Emily Silverman Book Collecting Contest for undergraduates and graduate students, and the Friends of the Library Undergraduate Research Award. The deadline for both contests is February 18, 2011. Winners will be announced in late March and first place recipients will receive their awards at the Library’s Dinner with Friends on Saturday, April 9, 2011. Submission guidelines and evaluation criteria for both the Book Collecting Contest and Undergraduate Research Award are available at: http://bit.ly/contest_award. For questions, contact Special Collections at askanarc@library.umass.edu.
The second annual Emily Silverman Book Collecting Contest celebrates reading and the pleasure of creating personal book collections around a theme or interest. UMass Amherst undergraduates and graduate students are invited to participate. Entries should consist of an essay describing the collection and an annotated bibliography. There will be two first place awards of $1,000 each, one for undergraduates and one for graduate students. Winners may be invited to display selected items from their collections in an exhibit in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library.
The third annual Friends of the Library Undergraduate Research Award recognizes excellence in the use of primary sources in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Undergraduate students are invited to submit papers or projects that represent work completed for a class or independent study in any field within the 18 months prior to the application deadline of February 18, 2011 and while the student was enrolled as an undergraduate at UMass Amherst. The first place award is $750, with two honorable mention awards at $250 each. Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) will post the winning papers/projects to http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/ and add them to the University Archives.
A primary source is a record of an event, an occurrence, or a time period produced by a participant or observer at the time, such as letters, diaries, writings, speeches, photographs, and scrapbooks, or the historic records (archives) of an organization (such as correspondence, memoranda, minutes, annual reports, etc.). Primary sources can also include government documents, artwork, artifacts, maps, music, audiovisual materials (film, audio and video tape), and computer files.
The awards are sponsored by the Friends of the UMass Amherst Libraries, the Library Director’s Council, and the Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Prizes are made possible thanks to generous donations from Friends of the Libraries. Panels of faculty and community experts will judge the anonymous entries.
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Last Edited: 19 January 2011
