Julia Rogers Research Prizes

Release date: January 25, 2007 |

The Julia Rogers Library is happy to announce the third annual research prize competition, sponsored by the Friends of the Goucher College Library, for outstanding research by Goucher students using library resources.  The $250 prizes were first offered in 2004, in honor of Julia Rogers’ 150th birthday.  If you have produced work of which you are especially proud, please consider entering.  The categories are:

First year/Sophomore;
Junior/Senior
Graduate

Guidelines for submission

To submit your research project as a candidate for one of these awards, you must provide the following:

• The paper itself.
  • 5 or more pages,
  • written for a course taken in 2006.
  • includes a bibliography of at least 10 citations, written in a standard bibliographic format (MLA, APA, etc.)
  
  
• A letter of recommendation from the faculty member for whose course the paper was written. The letter must include a brief statement addressing the characteristics of the paper that distinguish it as an example of outstanding student scholarship and writing. Please arrange for the letter to reach the library in time to meet the deadline. 
  
  
• An essay of 250-300 words describing the research strategy, how library resources helped focus and direct the research, and what you learned about the research process.
  
  
• A cover sheet with your name, the title of the paper, and the name of the nominating professor. Your name and the professor’s should not appear anywhere in the main body of the submission.

Download an entry form from the link below, or pick one up at the reference desk in the library.
The deadline to submit your research paper and all documentation is Tuesday, February 6, 2007. Entry forms should be brought or sent to Nancy Magnuson, College Librarian, Julia Rogers Library.