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Nicole Basbanes
Student Book Collecting Contest

 
 
First Prize: $300 - - Second Prize: $200 - - Third Prize: $100

Rules and Prizes

 

  1. Entries normally will be limited to a selection of no less than 25 nor more than 50 books or similar material (for example, pamphlets, periodicals), regardless of the size of the student's total collection. Books must be owned and collected by the student alone.

    Students will submit a brief (less than five pages) statement of the purpose of her collection and ideas for the collection's future development, together with a bibliography of the collection that includes at least 10 annotated entries describing each volume and its special interest to the collection and/or the collector. This contest is open to all Sweet Briar College students currently enrolled as full-time students. Previous winners are ineligible.

    Statements and bibliographies must be submitted to Joe Malloy, ILL/Branch Librarian at Cochran Library no later that 4:00 pm on Friday, February 11, 2011. These will be used for preliminary judging. Finalists may be asked to bring their collections for final judging. Winners will be announced at the Friends of Library Spring Meeting.

  2. Forth and Fifth place winners will be awarded a certificate and a gift.

  3. Winners of the Nicole Basbanes Student Book Collecting Contest will be eligible to enter the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest.

The Contest is sponsored by Mr. Nicholas Basbanes and the Sweet Briar College Friends of the Library. Winners do not need to have large or expensive collections. Judges will focus on the collector's stated purpose and goals and how well the collection meets them.

Judges: Mr. Nicholas Basbanes, Dr. Lee Piepho, Dr. John G. Jaffe, Professor Lisa N. Johnston, One Library Student TBA

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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