Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition
Book Collecting Resources
Neureuther winners are eligible to enter
the Collegiate Book-Collecting Championship!
Fine Books & Collections magazine sponsors an annual Collegiate Book-Collecting Championship. Winners of three dozen university-sponsored book-collecting competitions will compete for prizes totaling nearly $6,000. For more information, visit the web site: http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/contest/index.phtml
The Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition is made possible by the generous contributions of Carl Neureuther, a 1940 graduate of the Washington University. To encourage a life-long love of reading for pleasure, Mr. Neureuther funded a library endowment for the purchase of literature. The endowment adds hundreds of books to the Libraries' collections every year, and you can browse them by searching the Libraries' catalog: Carl Neureuther Endowed Book Fund.
Like many devoted readers, Mr. Neureuther was also a book collector. The student book collection competition that bears his name makes it possible for Washington University students to share stories of their own passion for reading and for collecting books. How does your personal library reflect your interests and obsessions? How have you gone about building your collection and deciding what to acquire? What was your greatest find? These are only a few of the questions it is possible to explore in submissions to the Neureuther competition.
Book collecting is a pastime that has given pleasure to generations of the "gently mad." If you would like to read more about the history of book collecting and others who share your affliction, here are a few resources to get you started.
Basbanes, Nicholas A. A Gentle Madness: bibliophiles, bibliomanes, and the eternal passion for books. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1995.
Basbanes, Nicholas A. Among the Gently Mad : Perspectives and Strategies for the Book Hunter in the Twenty-first Century. New York: Henry Holt and Co, 2002.
Ellis, Estelle, Caroline Seebolm, and Christopher Simon Sykes. At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live With and Care For their Libraries. New York: C. Southern Books, 1995.
Kaplan, Rob, and Harold Rabinowitz, ed. Speaking of Books: the Best Things Ever Said about Books and Book Collecting. New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.
Shaddy, Robert A. Essays on Books and Bibliophiles: Aspects on the History of Books and Book-collecting in America. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
Click to see all of the titles that the Washington University Libraries owns on book collecting.