Now in its seventh 12 months, UC Santa Barbara’s Library Award for Undergraduate Analysis (LAUR) highlights rising scholarship from a variety of educational disciplines. It additionally fingers out money prizes to the scholars who greatest display an experience of library collections, providers and associated assets.
Judged by a panel of UCSB librarians and college from throughout campus, every winner’s challenge included a bibliography demonstrating the vary and depth of their analysis supplies, plus a reflective essay describing their course of. Judges evaluated search methods and sources, and the way college students persevered via analysis obstacles and demonstrated progress and class of their information of library assets.
“We acquired a formidable variety of submissions, particularly within the Humanities & Wonderful Arts class,” stated Heather Nisen, librarian and LAUR program lead. “The judges shared that it was troublesome to decide on winners as a result of the standard of pupil analysis and use of library supplies was so exceptional.”
“As all the time,” Nisen added, “these rising students will probably be invited to add their award-winning works into eScholarship, UC’s institutional open entry repository, the place they are often found by a wider inhabitants.”
