{"id":9876,"date":"2021-04-26T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=9876"},"modified":"2021-04-26T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:25:58","slug":"first-year-etown-student-receives-excellence-in-library-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2021\/04\/26\/first-year-etown-student-receives-excellence-in-library-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Year Etown Student Receives Excellence in Library Research Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College\u2019s Lily Harris \u201824 was announced as the winner of this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etown.edu\/library\/info.aspx\">Anna Carper Excellence in Library Research Award<\/a>. This annual award recognizes the excellent scholarship of First-Year Seminar (FYS) students who make valuable use of the High Library\u2019s research collections and other information sources. The endowed award is named after Anna M. Carper \u201941, Librarian of the College from 1960 to 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Harris won for her paper, \u201cCan Whaling in Japan be Justified by Culture?\u201d which she wrote for Associate Professor of Japanese Dr. Nobuaki Takahashi\u2019s First-Year Seminar course. Her paper divulges on the current debate between pro-whalers and anti-whalers. It discusses both sides of the argument and uncovers the reasoning behind the hostility toward Japan\u2019s whaling practices.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is grateful for the support she received from Takahashi during the writing process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Takahashi helped me greatly in the process, and even introduced me to the topic of whaling after I presented some initial ideas,\u201d said Harris. \u201cAlong the way, he also helped me verify whether some sources were good for my paper. Without his help, my paper wouldn\u2019t have become what it is now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris was delighted to learn that she won this year\u2019s Anna Carper Excellence in Library Research Award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nice to know that this paper caught other people\u2019s attention, and that the facts and arguments I presented were well enough to earn it,\u201d said Harris. \u201cI spent a lot of time ruminating over how to approach this sensitive topic, and I am glad it was received well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College\u2019s Lily Harris \u201824 was announced as the winner of this year\u2019s Anna Carper Excellence in Library Research Award. This annual award recognizes the excellent scholarship of First-Year Seminar (FYS) students who make valuable use of the High Library\u2019s research collections and other information sources. The endowed award is named after Anna M. Carper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":9878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[1387,197,1350],"class_list":["post-9876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-anna-carper-excellence-award","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9879,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions\/9879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}