==================== HES POSTING =================== >Date: Wed, 30 Jul 97 13:58:48 EDT >From: Ben Primer <[log in to unmask]> 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. 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. /___/ Princeton faculty/staff ___ /___/ Other: _______________________________________________ Application form, resume, brief research proposal not exceeding three pages, budget form, and two confidential letters of recommendation must be postmarked by January 15, 1998 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. BUDGET Transportation: Airfare $________ Shuttle to Princeton from Philadelphia or Newark ($20 per trip) ________ Rail ________ Auto (31 cents per mile) ________ Tolls/Parking/Miscellaneous ________ Housing (_____ nights @ $________) ________ Meals (______ days @ $________) ________ Photocopying ________ Other: __________________________________ ________ __________________________________ ________ TOTAL ESTIMATED COSTS $________ In preparing your budget, please be advised that housing in Princeton is limited and expensive (unless one can obtain housing through the Princeton Theological Seminary housing office). Bed and Breakfast of Princeton costs about $50 per night. The Nassau Inn and Peacock Inn are above $100 per night. There are other outlying motels with shuttles to campus. The Palmer Inn, Marriott, and Holiday Inn are about $80 per night; the Hyatt costs ($120). There are less expensive choice (the McIntosh is $60) that lack transportation to campus. These make sense only if you have your own vehicle since taxis are outrageously expensive. One should be able to eat reasonably well in Princeton for $30 PER DAY. Ben Primer <[log in to unmask]> ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]