2007 Collegiate Book-Collecting Championship winners announced:

Scott Brown, editor of Fine Books & Collections has just announced the winners of the 2007 Collegiate Book-Collecting Championship. In alphabetical order, with the subject of the collections in quotes, the finalists are:

* David Butterfield. Christ's College, Cambridge. "Landmarks of Classical Scholarship"
* Craig Citro. UCLA. "Mathematician Emil Artin"
* Diana Looser. Cornell. "Drama of Oceana"

There are also three Honorable Mention recipients:

*Shelley (Johnson) and Dawson Jones. University of South Carolina. "Poet Mary Robinson"
*Brent Morris. Cornell. "Abolitionists"
*Robin Worth Reinert. Harvard. "American Songbooks"

The awards ceremony will be hosted by the Book Club of Washington on October 12 during the Seattle Book Fair. We (Lux Mentis, Booksellers) are very pleased and honored to be sponsors of this competition. The future of the profession rests on the shelves of these students. I look forward to meeting them in Seattle. Congratulations to them all.