======================= HES POSTING ===================== VISITING FELLOWSHIPS, 1997-1998 Princeton University Library The Friends of the Princeton University Library offer six short- term Visiting Fellowships 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 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 Manuscripts Division holds medieval and renaissance manuscripts and codices, and American and English literary and historical manuscripts. The Visual Materials Division services the Graphic Arts, Historic Maps, Theater, 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. The Fellowships, which have a value of $1500 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 1997 to April 1998. Applicants are asked to submit an application form, a resume, 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 31 January 1997. 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, 1997. Princeton University Library Visiting Fellowships Application Form Name ______________________________________________________ Last Name First Name Mailing Address: ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ E-mail Address: ________________________________________ Daytime Phone: ________________________________________ Title of Proposal (20 words or less): ______________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Princeton Collections Relevant to Research _________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Anticipated Research Period: Arrive on _________________ Depart on ________________ Status: ___ ___ /___/ Tenured/Senior Faculty /___/ Graduate Student ___ ___ /___/ Non-tenured/Junior Faculty /___/ Free-lance researcher ___ /___/ Other:________________________________________________ How did you learn about the fellowship program?: ___ ___ /___/ Listserv posting /___/ Library Web Site ___ ___ /___/ Chronicle of Higher Educ. /___/ Times Literary Supp. ___ /___/ Other: _______________________________________________ Application form, resume, brief research proposal not exceeding three pages, and two confidential letters of recommendation must be postmarked by January 31, 1997 to Fellowship Committee, Princeton University Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544. Electronic communications to the Committee may be sent to [log in to unmask] Facsimile transmissions to (609) 258- 3385. ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]