To be considered for the 2023 Aptman Prize, email the following as a SINGLE FILE (PDF or Word document) to Carson Holloway by June 15, 2023:
- application cover sheet (see form)
- essay of 500-750 words describing research strategies and use of library tools and resources
- paper including bibliography and appendices
In addition, you will need:
- a faculty letter of support (see form)
- The faculty member can email the letter of support in a separate file to Carson Holloway.
- Or, the faculty member can send the letter of support to the applicant to be included in the single file with the three items above.
Additional Guidelines
- You must be an undergraduate.
- Judges will group papers into lower-level (first- and second-year) and upper-level (third- and fourth-year) categories based on the author’s class distinction at the time that the paper was written.
- Your must write your paper for a course completed at Duke University and use Duke University Libraries' resources.
- If you write your paper during a term abroad, you can submit your paper as long as you are enrolled at Duke during your term abroad and use Duke University Libraries' resources for your research.
- You can submit a draft of a paper, as long as it reflects your research process and your use of library resources.
- Judges will consider honors theses separately from all other papers.
- Papers may take the form of a traditional research paper, as well as a digital project. Emphasis should be on the use of library resources and awareness of research strategies, rather than the project’s format
- Include internal citations and bibliographies, formatted according to bibliographic style requested by your course instructor or preferred by your discipline. Specify the bibliographic style your application cover sheet.
- Sumbit digital projects in an appropriate format (e.g. DVD, video, URL of the final project)
- You can sumbit an individual paper once only, but you can submit multiple, different papers in a given year. Submit each paper individually with an accompanying application cover sheet, essay and faculty letter of support.