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.