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Johns Hopkins  Awards Student Book Collectors

Six prizes have been awarded in the 2008 Betty and Edgar Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest.  Begun in 1993 by the Friends and endowed this year by long-time Friends Betty and Edgar Sweren, the contest recognizes the love of books and the delight in shaping a thoughtful and focused book collection.  More…


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The Betty and Edgar Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest Winners!

The Friends of the Johns Hopkins Libraries are pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 contest.  The competition, which includes an undergraduate and graduate division,  recognizes the love of books and the delight in shaping a thoughtful and focused book collection.

Undergraduate DivisionGraduate Division
First Place
$1000
Colin Azariah-Kribbs
A Library of Weird Fiction

Matthew Gibson
Learning to Read Russia

Second Place
$500
Alexander Baish
For the Love of Birds
Jeremy Pope
Africa in Antiquity: A Library of Ancient African History
Honorable Mention
$250
Sarah Montague
Fairy Tales and Folklore
Dmitry Shapovalov
Mountaineering in the Greater Ranges

Selected titles from the winning collections will be on display, on M-level in the Eisenhower Library, April 18 through the end of May.

In addition to the cash awards, winners will also be given a one-year honorary membership in the Friends of the Johns Hopkins Libraries.

For more information about the contest please visit SBCC



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