When the UA Libraries held its first book collecting contest in 2006, more than forty students entered the competition.\u00a0 At the time, some wondered whether enthusiasm for book collecting would endure in future years.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t proliferation of digital media cause students to forget about or dismiss the wonder and beauty of books?<\/p>\n
That many students entered the University Libraries 4th<\/sup> annual book collecting contest suggests a different outcome.\u00a0 Indeed, UA students still love books and many are aspiring book collectors, ready to engage in collecting over the long run.\u00a0 \u00a0Our students still understand the unique and special way that books bring meaning to all aspects of culture and society.\u00a0\u00a0 And, as with book collectors everywhere, they appreciate books as objects of art.<\/p>\n On April 14, 2010, six contest winners were formally recognized in a special reception in Gorgas Library, when Mille Jackson, Associate Dean for Collections, announced with much anticipation the names of the contest winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the UA Libraries held its first book collecting contest in 2006, more than forty students entered the competition.\u00a0 At the time, some wondered whether enthusiasm for book collecting would endure in future years.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t proliferation of digital media cause students to forget about or dismiss the wonder and beauty of books? That many students … Continue reading 2010 Book Collecting Contest a Success<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-exhibits","tag-book-collecting-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}