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The Betty and Edgar Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest Winners!

The Friends of the Johns Hopkins Libraries are pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 contest. The competition, which includes an undergraduate and graduate division, recognizes the love of books and the delight in shaping a thoughtful and focused book collection.

	Undergraduate Division	Graduate Division
First Place $1000	Colin Azariah-Kribbs A Library of Weird Fiction	Matthew Gibson Learning to Read Russia
Second Place $500	Alexander Baish For the Love of Birds	Jeremy Pope Africa in Antiquity: A Library of Ancient African History
Honorable Mention $250	Sarah Montague Fairy Tales and Folklore	Dmitry Shapovalov Mountaineering in the Greater Ranges

Selected titles from the winning collections will be on display, on M-level in the Eisenhower Library, April 18 through the end of May.

In addition to the cash awards, winners will also be given a one-year honorary membership in the Friends of the Johns Hopkins Libraries.

For more information about the contest please visit SBCC.