====================== HES POSTING =================== 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. ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]