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Research Prize Winners 2011 Winners
Paper Description Ms. Moore's paper examines how "the local government in San Francisco capitalized" on the lack of medical knowledge during the 1918-1919 global influenza epidemic "to portray the city as the most healthy, vigorous, and quintessentially American city in the nation." Ms. Moore states that the city's mayor James Rolph, Jr. "regulated San Francisco as a hospital." She reveals how local government used a public health campaign to Americanize the city's immigrants. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the North Beach Italian community, the Irish Catholic community, and the largely ignored Chinese community as she examines the intersection of politics, history, and medicine. Essay on the Research Process and Use of the Library Ms. Moore examined print and electronic resources at the Leatherby Libraries and various California archives and libraries while conducting her research. The array of materials she used included newspapers in English, Italian, and Chinese; hospital records; public health and death reports; books; oral histories; photographs; and more. She searched for articles for the years 1918-1919 using the Los Angeles Times historical database through the Leatherby Libraries, as well as the historical San Francisco Chronicle through the San Francisco Public Library. JSTOR provided her with scholarly journal articles. Through instruction she received at Leatherby Libraries, Ms. Moore learned how to evaluate sources and narrow her search to filter out irrelevant material. She comments that she evaluated her sources "as products of their time, taking into account political motivations when reading them." Beyond the Leatherby Libraries, Ms. Moore researched and received assistance by librarians and archivists at the San Francisco History Center, the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library, the San Francisco History Center, and the California Historical Society. Ms. Moore states, "This experience has given me a head start as a future historian and I hope to continue with similar pursuits later on."
Paper Description Mr. Girod argues in his paper that the existence of Glasgow Marxist agitators during World War I cannot be characterized as a revolutionary or class movement. Although Marxists were the only ones openly disagreeing with the government during this time period and "they became the leaders of various social movements," they ultimately "never led truly Marxist or socialist movements as the average Glaswegian was patriotic, highly religious,…and generally capitalistic." Mr. Girod believes that the "near-revolution" in Glasgow, as portrayed in the memoirs of Marxist leaders and embraced by most earlier historians is a myth. He states that "the loyalty given by the workers to the Marxists only lasted until they had achieved a social victory." Essay on the Research Process and Use of the Library Mr. Girod started his research by gathering scholarly journal articles through JSTOR and Academic Search Premier. He also utilized interlibrary loan services to obtain books related to his topic. To locate additional sources, Mr. Girod scanned references and read book reviews. These techniques led him to relevant primary sources. During his time at Chapman, Mr. Girod attended numerous research instruction sessions at the library, including a workshop specific to citing using the Chicago Manual of Style. He also received assistance from Archives and Cataloging Librarian Rand Boyd. He conducted research outside of the United States in London and Edinburgh, as well as a two week stint combing through various archives in Glasgow. While researching in Glasgow, he discovered socialist manifestos and pamphlets, newspapers, minutes of the Scottish Trades Union Council, and other materials. In conclusion, he states, "Through this experience I feel I have the expertise in the use of library and archival research and was even able to apply my knowledge in a non-English setting for a separate project."
Paper Description Ms. Ficken writes, "In my paper, I examine the rescue efforts made to save Jewish children from Germany and German occupied territory during the Second World War." Throughout her paper, Ms. Ficken compares and contrasts the experience of 10,000 rescued children from Central Europe from December 1938 to August 1939 with the experience of 669 children in Czechoslovakia saved by Nicholas Winton, a young English businessman. She states her main argument is "that Winton's personalized placement of the children he rescued enabled them to become acclimated more rapidly and ensured that they were properly cared and provided for." This, Ms. Ficken concludes, was more successful than the slower acclimation experienced by the 10,000 children who were placed less personally by organizations. Essay on the Research Process and Use of the Library Ms. Ficken used diverse sources for her research, including diaries, letters, old newspaper clippings, pamphlets, scholarly articles, and oral testimonies collected by the Anti-Defamation League of Orange County. She worked extensively with the collections in the Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library within Leatherby Libraries, including conducting research "on a large steamer trunk full of primary documents" that was donated to the library by the family of a Holocaust survivor. She estimates logging 225 hours of research in the Leatherby Libraries. Early on, Archives and Cataloging Librarian Rand Boyd instructed Ms. Ficken on archiving and cataloging her research. She also received assistance from Jessica Mylymuk and Ashley Bloomfield of the Holocaust Memorial Library and librarians Annie Knight, Stacy Russo, Claudia Horn, and Douglas Dechow. In her winning essay, Ms. Ficken comments on the importance of the physical library, including computers, study rooms, and the "clean, quite" spaces where she read and worked. She concludes, "I will use the knowledge given me by the Leatherby Libraries as I continue my studies now and in the future."
Paper Description Mr. Hacholski examines the Lausanne Exchange Convention of 1923 after the Greco-Turk War that "implemented the first internationally condoned compulsory population exchange." He explains that the exchange "formalized the transfer of approximately 1.5 million Greeks and 400,000 Turks and in the process created the modern-day states of Turkey and Greece." Mr. Hacholski's paper investigates "the influence Great Britain and the United States exercised over this concept during the Lausanne Conference." He ultimately reveals "a previously unacknowledged element of American influence over the population exchange." Essay on the Research Process and Use of the Library Mr. Hacholski writes that the "library instruction sessions" he attended were the "first stepping stone" in his research process. He recalls learning how to distinguish between primary and second sources, how to "evaluate the legitimacy of a website," and how to properly cite his sources. He believes learning how to use the WorldCat database was most important for his research, since this allowed him to search libraries throughout the country for specific sources. He physically visited the libraries of Cal State Fullerton, Santiago Canyon College, UCI, and UCLA after discovering holdings at these libraries through WorldCat. He sought assistance from various librarians at the reference desk when he encountered difficulties. In particular, Reference Librarian David Goto assisted him in accessing "online documents outsides of the United States." Mr. Hacholski also heavily used interlibrary loan services. He credits the "collective help" he received from Maria Yanez, Coordinator of Interlibrary Loan, Susan Djokic, Library Assistant, and Kyle Banick, a student worker in the Interlibrary Loan Department, as being "vital to the creation" of his thesis. He describes the Leatherby Libraries as a "place of refuge" where he was able to retreat and "research in peace."
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