Rhae Lynn Barnes, the winner of the Bancroft Library's Hill-Shumate undergraduate book collecting prize this spring, is one of the three finalists for the national Collegiate Book Collecting Championship, sponsored by Fine Books & Collections magazine.

Rhae Lynn's collection, “The Print Culture of American Amateur Minstrelsy, Blackface Plays, and Dialect in Black Literature (circa 1890s-1940s),” was inspired by her experience as a student of Professor Leon Litwack, the legendary teacher of History 7B, a course on the United States since 1865.