Post by Diane Merkel on Apr 17, 2007 6:47:20 GMT -6
I've never heard of such a contest before, but it's a great way to get students collecting. LBH won first prize!
Article: www.asu.edu/news/stories/200704/20070417_bookcontest.htm
Book Collecting Contest boasts record year
A record-breaking number of participants in the 2007 Student Book Collecting Contest made it an enormous success this year. Thirty students entered the contest – almost twice as many as the previous record.
“It was just a phenomenal year,” says Sharon Kozlo, administrative assistant at University Libraries.
Six graduate students were given awards, along with five undergraduate students. They will receive their cash awards at a reception April 19 at the University Club on the Tempe campus. The top graduate and undergraduate winner will continue on to the national level Oct. 12 in Seattle.
The winners are:
Graduate students
Best collection
• First place ($600) – Anthropology major Michael O'Hara, who entered his collection of books and maps on the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
• Second place ($300) – History major Matthew Garrett, who entered his Lewis and Clark Expedition collection.
• Third place ($200) – English major Adrienne Leavy, who entered her collection of a century of Irish social and cultural history.
• Honorable mention ($100) – Daniel Voica, an economics and math major at the Polytechnic campus, who entered a collection of books on economics and math.
Article: www.asu.edu/news/stories/200704/20070417_bookcontest.htm
