Book Collecting Prize Winners, 2021
The award committee for the Himes & Duniway Society Book Collecting Prize is happy to announce the winners of this year’s prize.
Delaney Hetrick, a current UO undergraduate majoring in Architecture, submitted an entry titled, A Curated Collection of Bound Print Matter on Architecture. The committee was very impressed by Delaney’s focused theme, and by the details of concern for the original book artifacts. Delaney’s collection includes only hard-bound works, only includes sticky notes as marginalia to avoid damage to the original works, retains dustjackets, and the submission identified the condition of each volume. The visual presentations in Delaney’s submission of the collection were also creative and thoughtful.
Yosa Vidal Collados, a current UO doctoral student in the Department of Romance Languages, submitted an entry titled, Graphic Memories. The committee found Yosa’s essay quite compelling. A native of Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship, the collection focuses mainly on Argentinean and Chilean dictatorships. Yosa’s collection includes a variety of printed formats, but the committee was most impressed by the inclusion of graphic novels and comic books on those topics.
The Book Collecting Prize is a newly established partnership between the UO Libraries Special Collections Department and the Himes & Duniway Society, who has generously donated prize funds. Its purpose is to recognize and encourage undergraduates and graduate students at the University of Oregon to collect printed works, to build their own libraries, to appreciate the special qualities of the printed word, and to read and collect for pleasure and education.
In the interest of encouraging the next generation, we are delighted to award the Book Collecting Prize, with two cash prizes for an outstanding book collection conceived and built by an undergraduate or graduate student. Two cash Prizes are awarded in the amount of $500 each. In addition, winners will receive a limited-edition, signed, broadside poem printed by Lone Goose Press, an Oregon fine press. Consolation prizes will also be awarded to other submitters.
The guidelines require that the winning collections must have been started by the contestant, and all items in the collection must be owned but not created by them (as in the case of self-created printed works). A collection may include any printed item, such as books, posters, broadsides, postcards, or ephemera (in paper-based formats); it may be organized by theme, author, illustrator, publisher, printing technique, binding style, or another clearly articulated principle. The winning collection will be more than a reading list of favorite texts: it will be a chosen group of printed items, creatively put together. Collections will not be judged on their size or their market value, but on their originality and success in illuminating their chosen subjects or formats.
We invite you attend the Award Ceremony which will occur on Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 5-6 pm (PST) via Zoom. The link and password are cited below.
Book Collecting Prize Ceremony
Zoom Meeting
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/95450414784?pwd=bEJuUy9WUitXR1VHN1A1ZFViVTJRZz09
Meeting ID: 954 5041 4784
Passcode: 525178
