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The Elizabeth Soutar Bookbinding Competition
2001


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1ST  PRIZE  £1,000
STUDENT  PRIZE  £500

The National Library of Scotland is pleased to announce its eighth annual craft bookbinding competition, sponsored by Mrs Elizabeth A Soutar (formerly Clark) of Elgin. The aim of the competition is to encourage the practice and development of craft binding skills with individual expression and originality. Entries are now invited for the 2001 competition.

The competition, which is open to anyone resident in any of the member states of European Union, offers two prizes:

          a.     Best Competition Entrant (£1,000)

          b.      Best Student Entrant (£500)

A student is defined as any person receiving full-time training or education in bookbinding

Competition entrants should submit a "craft binding" using materials of their own choice, on a publication on a subject and in a language of their own choice. Competition binding will be judged by a panel of judges. In addition to assessing the quality of the craft skills applied, the judges will be looking, in particular, for originality and expression in the cover design. Entrants will be eligible for only one prize.
Entries should be of a single example of a craft binding.Multiple volume entries are permissible where these constitute a single artistic entity and can therefore be judged as composite entry. Where multiple entries of a disparate nature are representative of their skills, and the other entries will be returned.
It is a condition of entry that, in the event of being awarded a prize, the winner will donate the bound volume to the National Library of Scotland, where it will be placed in the Library's collection of fine bindings. Participants must also be willing to lend their entries to the National Library of Scotland dor a period of six months aftyer the competition ends in order to allow an exhibition of the entries to be held.

The closing date for the receipt of competition entries is 01 October 2001.

The result will be announced in November 2001. The decision of the judges is final.

Entry forms are available from:

Mr. R. H. Jackson
Head of Preservation
National Library of Scotland
NATIONAL  LIBRARY  OF  SCOTLAND
George IV Bridge, Edinburgh  EH1  1EW
Telephone  0131-226 4531 & 0131-459 4531
Fax  0131-622 4803
e-mail: r.jackson@nls.uk