Checklist (The following must be included for your submission to be accepted)

1. A typewritten brief essay explaining:

• your personal connection to the topic and materials, for instance:
  • personal significance of the collection
  • how the collection was started
  • why the collection was started & maintained
• information about items of greatest interest

2. A typewritten bibliography of 10 or more books (maximum of 50) and an annotation for each item indicating the book’s significance to the collection. Please use the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition.

I agree that, if I am an honoree in the contest, I will lend at least 10 books from my collection to be exhibited in the Greenfield Library’s Lillian Vanous Nutt Room beginning February 2025, and I will provide a photograph of myself to be exhibited alongside the books.

I also agree to allow my essay to be exhibited at the Library and included on the Library’s website.