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Update: A ceremony to award the prize's was held in Paley Library's Lecture Hall at 4:00pm on Thursday April 30th, 2009.

Temple University Libraries have announced the winners of the fifth annual Library Prize for Undergraduate Research.

As this prestigious award entered its fourth year, 60 outstanding applications were received. Applications represented disciplines, schools and colleges across Temple’s campus.

Congratulations to our winners (in alphabetical order):

Danielle Country - “Girl, Translated”- (Latin 4082)
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Laura M. Samponaro

George A. Keddie - “Catholic Eucharistic Theology and the Gospel of Judas: Exposing the Formative Value of Sethian Criticism” (Religion 4882)
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Vasiliki M. Limberis

Cara Shay – “The Neurobiology and Development of Compulsive Hoarding and Its Relationship to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” (Psychology 3306)
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Diana S. Woodruff-Pak (primary) and Dr. Ingrid Olson

And our honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

James H. Baraldi - "Gangliosidosis” - (Psychology 3306)
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Diana S. Woodruff-Pak (primary), Dr. Luis Del Valle, and Dr. George P. Tuszynski

Megan Donnelly – “More than Whores and Housewives: Reconsidering Judith Leyster's The Proposition” - (Art History 2197)
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Jonathan Kline

The complete papers are available to download and interviews with the winners will be soon posted to the Library Prize site.

Audio versions are now available on selected articles in Wilson OmniFile, a full-text bibliographic database from H.W. Wilson, and Library PressDisplay, a database that provides the most recent sixty-day coverage of newspapers from around the world. In the case of Wilson OmniFile, the audio files are downloadable into iTunes and other portable audio players.

In Wilson OmniFile, just click on links to "Full Text HTML". Then click on Listen or Download Audio.  The sound quality is surprisingly good. 

Wilson OmniFile also provides translations of articles into ten different languages.

In Library PressDisplay, just select a newspaper or an article and look for the Interactive Radio icon. Not limited to English, audio is available for numerous languages including French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese.

---Fred Rowland