Forwarded from H-AMSTDY by Ross B. Emmett
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>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 12:38:23 -0500 (EST)
>From: Ben Primer <[log in to unmask]>
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS 1996-1997
Princeton University Library
The Friends of the Princeton University Library are sponsoring
several short-term Visiting Fellowships in order to promote
scholarly use of the research collections of the Library. The
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, housed in the
Harvey S. Firestone Library, has substantial holdings of
materials pertaining to the western world and the Middle East
from antiquity to the present. The Rare Book Division is
especially strong in classical Latin texts, American history and
literature, English history and literature, and French, German,
and Latin American literature. The Manuscript Division holds
medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and codices, and American
and English literary and historical manuscripts. The Visual
materials Division holds the Graphic Arts Collection, the
Collection of Historic maps, the Theatre Collection, and the
Numismatic Collection. The Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
holds the 20th-century Public Policy Papers and the University
Archives. The Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology and the
Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections are also located
on the University campus.
The Fellowships, which have a value of $1500 each, are meant to
help defray expenses in traveling to and from Princeton and
residing in Princeton during the tenure of the Fellowship. The
length of the Fellowship will depend on the applicant's research
proposal, but is normally one month. Fellowships are tenable
from May 1996 to April 1997.
There is no special application form. Applicants are asked to
submit a resume and a brief research proposal to Fellowship
Committee, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ 08544.
The proposal should address specifically the relevance of the
Princeton University Library Collections to the proposed
research. The applicant should also arrange for two confidential
letters of recommendation to be sent to the Committee. The
deadline for applications is 31 January 1996. This announcement
contains all the information necessary to complete the
application process.
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