Student Awards 2011
NEWS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: 4/21/11
CONTACT: LESLIE SCHALER, COMMUNICATION PROGRAM COORDINATOR, (413) 545-0162
UMASS AMHERST LIBRARIES ANNOUNCE WINNERS OF
Second Annual Book Collecting Contest
and
Third Annual Friends of the Library Undergraduate Research Award
Amherst, MA – The Department of Special Collections and University Archives at the UMass Amherst Libraries is pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Emily Silverman Book Collecting Award and the third annual Friends of the Library Undergraduate Research Award.
The first place recipient of the Emily Silverman Book Collecting award of $750 and a $250 gift certificate to the Brattle Book Shop in the undergraduate category is Jonah Vorspan-Stein ’13 of Cambridge, Massachusetts for “Contemporary Independent Literature,” a collection of books published by independent publishers since 2009. In the graduate category, Nathaniel Otting ’13 of Northampton won first place for “Walser & Company,” a collection of books by and about Robert Walser, the German-speaking Swiss writer (1878-1956).
The recipient of the Friends of the Library Undergraduate Research Award first place prize of $750 is Christopher Russell ’10 of Watsonville, California for his senior honors thesis entitled “A Tale of Two Cities: How the Government Caused and Maintained Racial Inequality in Oakland, CA 1945-1970.” Recipients of the two Honorable Mention awards of $250 each are Sarah Goldstein ’12 of Sharon, Massachusetts for “Cambodian Immigration and the Cambodian Crisis Committee” and Marjorie Connolly ’11 of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts for “Anarchy to Activism: Italian Immigrant Politics During Boston’s Great Molasses Flood.”
To promote scholarship at UMass Amherst and encourage original research in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives, the UMass Amherst Libraries sponsor two annual awards open to the University’s undergraduate and graduate student community.
The Emily Silverman Book Collecting Award recognizes achievement in assembling and writing about book collections. Collections may focus on any subject or field, on individual authors or genres, or may relate to features of the book such as illustration, binding, or typography.
The research award recognizes excellence in the use of primary sources, creativity and originality, and clarity and effectiveness of writing. A primary source is a record of an event, an occurrence, or a time period produced by a participant or observer at the time. Some examples are documents or manuscript material (such as letters, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, photographs, scrapbooks, etc.), or the historic records (archives) of an organization (such as correspondence, memoranda, minutes, annual reports, etc.).
The book collection annotated bibliographies (http://bit.ly/bookcollecting2011) and the winning papers (http://bit.ly/flura2011) are available on the Special Collections web site and added to the University Archives.
For more information, contact Rob Cox, Head of Special Collections (askanarc@library.umass.edu, 413-545-6842).
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Last Edited: 21 April 2011
