Share your love of books
May 24, 2022
Book-collecting contest open to all UD students
Do you love books? Do countless editions of the Harry Potter series fill your shelves? Do you have a growing number of carefully preserved comic books? Have you amassed a collection of Irish travel books, books on Delaware history or a number of entries on the banned books list? You may be a book collector without realizing it.
The annual Seth Trotter Student Book Collecting Contest, sponsored by the Friends of the University of Delaware Library, seeks to encourage reading and research, the creation of personal libraries and the appreciation of printed or illustrated works for pleasure and scholarship.
A collection shares a central focus between its many items and can be based on any number of aspects — author, genre, aesthetic, subject, cover art, etc.
Share your collection and enter for a chance to win a cash prize (first place $1,000, second place, $500, third place, $500).
The contest is open to all University of Delaware students. Prize winners will be entered in the National Collegiate Student Book Collecting Contest, which has a top award of $5,000.
Applications are due June 1.
For details, visit library.udel.edu/book-collecting.
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