Snyder Book Collecting Contest winners to be honored at KU April 16

LAWRENCE -- The winners of this year's Snyder Book Collecting Contest will be honored in a ceremony at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, in the Johnson Room of Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas.

The contest, which is open to all KU students and includes both undergraduate and graduate divisions, attracted 26 entries. Four finalists have been selected in each division:

Undergraduate division
 • Jeremy Engels, Wichita senior
 • Sarah Hill, Hutchinson senior
 • Ian Lewis, Galva junior
 • Paul Statler, Prairie Village senior

Graduate division
 • J. Gregory Brister, Lawrence
 • Resha Cardone, Lawrence
 • Christine Robinson, Lawrence
 • Mark Clay Willcoxon, Lawrence

The winner of each division will receive an $850 prize, which includes a $100 gift certificate from Mount Oread Bookshop in the Kansas Union. Second-place winners will receive a $500 prize, which includes a $50 gift certificate.

Elizabeth Snyder of Mission Hills, the donor for whom the contest is named, is expected to attend and will be honored for her support at the awards ceremony.

The entries reflect a wide range of literary tastes and intellectual interests. The titles of this year's finalists range from "Clandestine Publications of Chile's Artisan Presses Under Pinochet" to "In Their Own Words: Women Who Loved Women," and from "Science Fiction Pulp Magazines" to "The Cause and Effect of Politics and Life."

The finalists' collections will be on display in the Johnson Room during the awards ceremony.

The KU Libraries and the Mount Oread Bookshop organize the contest. For more information about contest and its history, visit spencer.lib.ku.edu/snyder/2002/history.htm. A list of past winners is available at spencer.lib.ku.edu/snyder/2002/winners.htm.