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 services the Graphic Arts Collection, the
Collection of Historic maps, the Theatre Collection, and the
Numismatic Collection. The Seely G. Mudd Manuscript Library
holds the 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 1994 to April 1995.
There is no special application form. Applicants are asked to
submit a resume and a brief research proposal to Fellowship
Committee, Princeton University Library, One Washington Road,
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 1994.
This announcement contains all the information necessary to
complete the application process.
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