Forwarded from H-AMSTDY by Ross B. Emmett ******************************************************************* >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.