February 25, 2009

Research Awards

The Hatfield Library and the Friends of the Library are once again sponsoring student research awards.

Two awards of $500 each will be awarded to the winners. The deadline for application is May 4, 2009.

Criteria for award

Submission form

September 17, 2008

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

In August of 2008, Willamette University was granted a Level I NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant to fund work that explores the integration digital repositories and multimedia authoring tools, specifically the CONTENTdm digital asset management system used on this Academic Commons site, and Pachyderm 2.0, an open source authoring application.

Software development -- a repository Open Service Interface Definition for CONTENTdm and integration of this service with Pachyderm 2.0 -- is at the center of the Willamette University Startup Grant project. A significant work of digital scholarship will guide and inform this software development activity. The Hallie Ford Museum, the Willamette University Archives, and Professor Roger Hull will create a multimedia presentation describing the work of a Pacific Northwest artist, Carl Hall (1921-1996), from museum and archival digital content.

The project's overall goal is to enhance the ability of scholars and students to work with digital repository content.

Jeff Kahn, Joshua Archer, and Terry Reese are consultants for software development. Jonathan Bucci (Collection Curator, Hallie Ford Museum), Elizabeth Garrison (Education Coordinator, Hallie Ford Museum), Mary McKay (University Archivist), Roger Hull (Professor of Art History), and Michael Spalti (Hatfield Library) round out the project team.

March 20, 2008

Research Awards

The Hatfield Library and the Friends of the Library are once again sponsoring student research awards.

Two awards of $500 each will be awarded to the winners. The deadline for application is May 7, 2008.

Criteria for award

Submission form

September 04, 2007

Award Winners

Congratulations to Michelle Fairfield & Sasha Fegan, who won $25 gift certificates to the Willamette Bookstore during Opening Days. They participated in the "Most Influential Books" survey for incoming new students in which participants were asked to name three influential books they read before coming to Willamette.

Michelle selected the books A Handmaid’s Tale, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Slaughterhouse-Five. Sasha selected the books Kite Runner, Fahrenheit 451, and Animal Farm.

Here are the results of the Most Influential Books survey, with 277 total respondants:

10. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
10. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
10. Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
9. 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
9. Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
9. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
8. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
7. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
6. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
5. The Bible, Various
4. 1984, George Orwell
3. Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
1. Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling

These titles are available to borrow from the Mark O. Hatfield Library’s collection. Please stop by our library for a great book to read.

Congratulations again to Michelle & Sasha!

February 02, 2007

Research Awards

The Hatfield Library and the Friends of the Library are once again sponsoring student research awards.

Two awards of $500 each will be awarded to the winners. The deadline for application is May 1, 2007.

Criteria for award.

Submission form.

May 31, 2006

Research Award Winners

The Friends of the Hatfield Library are pleased to announce the two winners of the first annual Friends of the Library Research Awards:

Jacquelyn Grace for her paper, "Age dependant lateralized prey delivery and chick rearing of Caspian Terns," and Travis Harris for his paper, "Wave-particle duality of bucky balls."

These papers were well-written and well-cited in a style appropriate for their subjects; the authors used numerous and diverse sources of information relevant to their topic and showed a skillful synthesis of sources and thoroughness in the research process.

Each winner will receive a $500 award from the Friends. Congratulations Travis and Jacquelyn!

Thank you to the faculty who encouraged their students to apply; we had four very good submissions. Please keep this in mind for next year, as we will be awarding two more students in Spring, 2007.