Snyder Book Collecting Contest marks 50 years
Half a century ago, Elizabeth Morrison Snyder wanted to encourage students to collect books. The idea caught on, and the Snyder Book Collecting Contest will be held for the 50th time this year.
The contest encourages students to submit book collections on a specific topic. Entries must include a bibliography of the collection and an essay on the collection's intentions.
Finalists will be judged Nov. 10 at Oread Books. First, second and honorable mention winners will be rewarded with cash prizes and Oread Books gift cards. Entries are judged by former contest winners.
A public awards ceremony will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 10, in which the winners will be announced. Chancellor Robert Hemenway will be in attendance and present the awards.
To mark the anniversary, past judges and winners, the Snyder family and various KU and community members will be invited to an anniversary dinner in the Kansas Union. More than 400 faculty, staff and students have judged or taken part in the contest. Whitney Terrell, great-nephew of Elizabeth Taylor Snyder, and author of two novels, The Huntsmen and The King of Kings County, will be the guest speaker at the dinner.
The contest was recently included in Fine Books Magazine's top five list of oldest and longest running book collecting contests in the nation.
More information about the contest and its history is available at www.lib.ku.edu/snyder/.
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