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THERE IS A WEB VERSION OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND APPLICATION FORM AT THE 
FOLLOWING ADDRESS: 
 
http://libweb.princeton.edu:2003/collections/info/rbsc/fellows.html 
 
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS, 1998-1999 
Princeton University Library 
 
 
The Friends of the Princeton University Library offer up to ten short-term 
Visiting Fellowships to promote scholarly use of the research collections 
of the Library.  The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has 
substantial holdings pertaining to the western world and the Middle East 
from antiquity to the present.  The Rare Books Division, housed in the 
Harvey S. Firestone Library, is especially strong in classical Latin texts, 
American history and literature, English history and literature, and 
French, German and Latin American literature.  The Manuscripts Division, 
also at Firestone, holds medieval and renaissance manuscripts and codices, 
and American and English literary and historical manuscripts.  The Visual 
Materials Division, at Firestone, services the Graphic Arts, Historic Maps, 
Theatre, and Numismatic collections.  The Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library 
houses twentieth-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 campus. Information 
about these holdings may be found on the library's homepage at 
http://infoshare1.princeton.edu:2003. 
 
The Fellowships, which have a value of up to $2,000 each, are meant to help 
defray expenses in traveling to 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 1998 to April 1999. 
 
Applicants are asked to submit an application form, a resume, a budget, and 
a brief research proposal not exceeding three pages to the Fellowship 
Committee, Princeton University Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, 
New Jersey 08544.  The proposal should address specifically the relevance 
of the Princeton University Library collections to the proposed research. 
The applicant must also arrange for two confidential letters of 
recommendation to be sent to the Committee.  All materials related to the 
application must be postmarked no later than 15 January 1998.  A committee 
consisting of faculty, library staff and members of the Friends will award 
the Fellowships on the basis of the relevance of the proposal to unique 
holdings of the library, the merits and significance of the project, and 
the applicant's scholarly qualifications.  Awards will be made before April 
1, 1998. 
 
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