Young Wins Andrew Nadell Book Collectors Contest

On February 21, 2013, Ashley Young competed in the “Battle of the Books” competition as part of Duke’s Andrew T. Nadell Book Collectors Competition.  Her collection, “New Orleans’ Nourishing Networks: Foodways and Municipal Markets in the Nineteenth Century Global South” won first prize in the graduate student division.  A local Durham newspaper featured the “Battle of the Books,” including her collection, in “Going by the Book,” The Herald Sun, February 22, 2013.  Ashley went on to compete in the ABAA's National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest.  She won second prize in the national competition and will take part in an award ceremony at the Library of Congress in October 2013.  Duke libraries wrote a feature on Ashley's collection, which can be found here.