SOPHIE:
A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women
Donations
To make a donation, click here.
For more information, contact Michelle James at Michelle_James@byu.edu or call (801) 422-2463.
Donors
Click here to view a list of our donors, who have helped to support and fund the Sophie project.
Projects Needing Funding
- General Endowment Fund
- Stipend for student webmaster and computer specialist
- Sophie Jewish Women's Initiative
- Sophie Translation Initiative
- Sophie Pedagogy Initiative
- Stipend for student editor
- Student Travel Scholarships and Research Stipends for students researching in Europe
- Oral History Collection Project
- Writing Prizes
- Sophie Museum
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How Your Donations Help
Vision
The Sophie Mentored Student Research project is a model which incorporates the positive aspects of mentored undergraduate research and explores the possibilities of online databases and technology. Students acquire proficiency in computer use, library research, document collection, editing, analytical writing, design and business interface.
The Sophie Digital Library preserves a number of early German-language creative works which might otherwise be lost, making them easily available from a single source, at no cost to users.
These works include literary and journalistic texts, English translations, music, and images, as well as bibliographies, biographical works, pedagogical tips, a thesis library, the peer-reviewed online Sophie Journal, and the Sophianum, an online museum to which users can donate their own stories and mementos from their Germanic heritage.
Mission
Our mission is to:
- Bring undergraduates into active participation in significant research as they work with faculty mentors
- Explore the possibilities of internet technology in storing and disseminating information.
- Maintain the Sophie Digital Library as a cost-free source of texts and resources
- Assist students and scholars of early women’s work
- Foster the establishment of similar projects in other fields
Invitation
The Sophie project encourages outside collaboration and welcomes contributions of texts, creative works, and mementos of German heritage. Additionally, all funding contributions are greatly appreciated. Investing in the Sophie project supports today’s students and the effort to construct a more complete understanding of women’s creative efforts. Your support helps to preserve many of the artistic and literary riches of the past which otherwise might be irretrievably lost.
We invite you to contribute either to the general Sophie Endowment Fund, or to any of the special projects and initiatives listed on this page. Please help future students by allowing us to reclaim this piece of the past.