The glory can be yours! This award is funded by the UAA/APU Consortium Library.
Award amount: Two $500 awards
The Consortium Library Award recognizes and honors undergraduate research papers or projects that demonstrate significant use of the Library's collections or services. The application window is currently closed, but we expect to reopen it during the 2025-2026 academic year.
UAA and APU students can submit one application for this award using a course paper/project completed within the current or prior two semesters relative to the deadline. For a potential May 2026 deadline, this means projects completed in summer 2025, fall 2025, or spring 2026.
If you can answer "yes" to the following questions, you can apply for this award:
To apply, you will submit the following:
The committee will assign you a score out of 100 possible points. The point values are:
The reflective essay is worth 50% of your score. Your reflective essay should describe your research process in detail. Things to include:
This rubric provides more detail about the scoring criteria that will be used for each of the components listed above.
If you completed your paper/project as a group, please apply for the award as a group or get written permission from other group members to apply as an individual.
You may submit one application per academic year for this award. Previous winners may not reapply.
Winners will be asked to deposit their paper/project in the institutional repository, ScholarWorks@UA.
Members of the Consortium Library Award Committee are happy to answer questions.
Ruth Terry, Chair
This guide is maintained by Ruth Terry.