UMass Amherst Libraries Announce Winners of Student Awards
NEWS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: 4/21/10
CONTACT: LESLIE SCHALER, COMMUNICATION PROGRAM COORDINATOR, (413) 545-0162
UMASS AMHERST LIBRARIES ANNOUNCE WINNERS OF
First Annual Emily Silverman Book Collecting Award
and
Second Annual Friends of the Library Undergraduate Research Award
Amherst, MA - The Department of Special Collections and University Archives is pleased to announce the winners of the first annual Emily Silverman Book Collecting Award and the second annual Friends of the Library Undergraduate Research Award.
First place recipient of the book collecting award of $750 in the undergraduate category is Joseph Malatos '11 for "The Leaves of Science," a collection of mostly early discourses on various aspects of science with a major focus on animals and the natural world. In the graduate category, Matteo Pangallo G'11 won first place for "Handpress Printing and Manuscript Culture: A History of the Book Teaching and Research Collection." The latter includes books from numerous countries and subjects from throughout the handpress period (fifteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries).
The recipient of the Friends of the Library Undergraduate Research Award first place prize of $750 is Paul Kinsman '11 for his essay "Platonic and Pythagorean Ratios in the Formal Analysis of 15th Century Music." Recipients of the two Honorable Mention awards of $250 each are Vanessa De Santis '11 for "The Emergence of a Class of Informed, Working Italian Immigrant Women in the Early Twentieth Century" and Austin Powell '11 for "Woman-As-Witch: An Analysis of Gender in the Pre to Early Modern Society."
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 and the winning papers are available on the Special Collections web site: http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/ and added to the University Archives.
For more information contact: Rob Cox, Head of Special Collections, 413-545-6842, askanarc@library.umass.edu.
Last Edited: 20 April 2010
