KU News Release

52nd annual Snyder Book Collecting Contest seeks student entrants

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Libraries and Oread Books are accepting entries for the 52nd annual Snyder Book Collecting Contest. All KU students are eligible to enter.

The contest features $1,100 in prizes, including gift cards from Oread Books and monetary awards generated by the Snyder Book Collecting Contest fund at KU Endowment.

Contest judges will include a former prizewinner. Based on entries, first place, second place and two honorable mentions are possible in undergraduate and graduate divisions.

The entry deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, March 24. To learn more about contest details and rules, visit www.lib.ku.edu/snyder or contact Lora Farrell at (785) 864-4592 or lfarrell@ku.edu.

The Snyder Book Collecting Contest awards program will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 4, in Watson Library. The event will feature a reception and opportunity to view student collections from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Dean Lorraine J. Haricombe will present student awards at 6:30 p.m., and Robert Collmer, a professor emeritus at Baylor University, will present the keynote address at 6:45 p.m. Collmer recently gave his collection of more than 700 works by and about John Bunyan to the Department of Special Collections at KU’s Spencer Research Library. It is one of four major Bunyan collections worldwide. To RSVP for the event, contact Maggie Brooke at (785) 424-3601 or mbrooke@ku.edu.

Winning collections will be exhibited on Level 2 of the Kansas Union, between Oread Books and the KU Bookstore.

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