Friends Activities

In alternate years, the Friends of the Library and the Gothic Bookshop co-sponsor the Jeremy North Book Collectors Contest, named for the first manager of the Gothic Bookshop.  The contest recognizes student book collectors with prizes in the form of gift certificates to the Gothic Bookshop for first and second place in undergraduate and graduate categories.  Undergraduate winners receive $500 for first place and $250 for second.  Graduate student winners receive $700 for first place and $500 for second.  This year the contest judging took place on Friday, April 24, from 11:30 at the Bryan Student Center.  Judging the entries in public at the student center for the first time allowed more interaction between students, judges and visitors, and provided more visibility for the Friends and the contest.

Friends Executive Committee members Leslie Dillon, Ruth Ross, David Stein and Jennifer Welsh judged the entries and selected the winners.  Tyler Huffman won first place in the undergraduate category for his collection titled Islam and the Middle East, and Jessi Laloma was awarded second place in this category for her collection titled Before Lassie, Ther Was Lad:  The Works of Albert Payson Terhune.  Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell's collection, African Voices, was awarded first place in the graduate category, and Joel Schlosser placed second with his An American Pléiade collection.

Many thanks to all the students who shared their treasures with us.  We wish you many, many years of enthusiastic collecting.  Thanks also to the Gothic Bookshop at Duke University for co-sponsoring this Friends of the Libraries event.