Apply for the Undergraduate Library Research Award!

The Research Award recognizes undergraduate students for excellent research and scholarship that demonstrates creative use of scholarly materials.

Students may submit any research project they've completed between Spring 2011 and Spring 2012. In addition, they are asked to submit a short reflective essay about the research process.

• *Deadline*: Monday, May 14, 2012
• Winners receive $1,000
• Categories: Senior Thesis/Honors Thesis, Senior Non-Thesis, and Non-Senior
• Any media (project format) accepted

Application information, previous winners, and selection criteria are available at:

http://www.lib.washington.edu/researchaward

The award jury is comprised of librarians and faculty evaluators, crossing disciplines and the three UW campuses.

Questions? Email: libaward@uw.edu

JSTOR Opens Up U.S. Journal Content From Before 1923

"Users anywhere now have free access to JSTOR’s Early Journal Content, a corpus of scholarly articles published in the United States before 1923 and elsewhere before 1870. That’s about 500,000 articles from 200 journals, according to JSTOR’s announcement."

For the full story, please see Wired Campus.

Library Snapshot Day

The UW Libraries are participating in Library Snapshot Day tomorrow, April 12 and we need your help! Libraries Snapshot Day is a nation-wide effort sponsored by the American Library Association to illustrate the importance of libraries and to show the vast range of services and resources we provide to the campus, community and state. The goal is to create a one-day "snapshot" of what goes on in libraries by collecting user quotes, images, photos, and data related to library activity. We want to illustrate the kinds of services offered by the UW Libraries, and most importantly, the value these services add to teaching, research, and scholarship. The information gathered will become part of a historic archive in the UW Libraries. Selected photos will be featured in our public Snapshot webpage and may be used in future library promotional material. This event is being conducted in all UW Libraries on all campuses. Participate tomorrow by sending us any comments you might have about the Music Library or the UW Libraries in general. The webpage below has links to tools you can use to send any comments or photos you want to share. http://www.lib.washington.edu/snapshot/ You can also email any comments about the library directly to musiclib at uw.edu, or stop by the library on the 12th and give them to us in writing.

Survey reveals what Seattleites really do at the library

"We are a city of readers. We're also a city in a budget crisis. To help set priorities, Seattle Public Library conducted a survey. The results may surprise you."

For the full story, please see Komo News.

Why The Next Big Pop-Culture Wave After Cupcakes Might Be Libraries

"I realize we're picking the bones from the Old Spice campaign at this point, but when I saw that the Brigham Young University parody of the Old Spice ads had gotten more than 1.2 million views (Old Spicy himself — that's what I'm calling him — did a video for libraries), it got me thinking."

For the full story, please see NPR.org.