Fellowship: Manuscripts Archival Fellowship, Princeton

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The Manuscripts Division, a unit of Princeton University Library’s Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, is proud to offer the inaugural Manuscripts Division Archival Fellowship to one graduate student or recent graduate this year. This fellowship provides a summer of work experience for a current or recent graduate student interested in pursuing an archival career. For more information about the Manuscripts Division visit: http://rbsc.princeton.edu/divisions/manuscripts-division Fellowship Description: The 2017 Fellow will gain experience in technical services, with a focus this year on description and management of born-digital and audiovisual materials. The Fellow will work under the guidance of the of the Manuscripts Division processing team, which includes the Lead Processing Archivist, Latin America Processing Archivist, and General Manuscripts Processor. Projects for 2017 may include: Processing one or more paper-based or hybrid format manuscript collections; Conducting a survey of legacy audiovisual materials and assisting in the writing of a grant proposal for an audio digitization project; Assisting with processing and analysis of...
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Research Fellowships: University of Illinois, Chicago Library

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The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Library is now offering Short-Term Fellowships to further research using the holdings of Special Collections and University Archives. Special Collections at the Richard J. Daley Library houses manuscripts, rare books, photographs, and artifacts on the social, political, and cultural history of Chicago. The Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago Special Collections documents the city’s rich history as a center for the education and practice of the medical arts. Premier collections include the papers of Richard J. Daley, the Chicago Urban League, the Century of Progress, exemplars of 21st century design, the Chicago settlement house movement, and the Chicago Board of Trade. Special Collections also holds the Sierra Leone collection, 1792-1825. More information is available atlibrary.uic.edu/home/collections/special-collections-university-archives. ELIGIBILITY: The award is open to individual researchers, teachers, and writers of any nationality, in any academic discipline. Preference is given to applicants who plan to use UIC political manuscript collections. Applicants must live outside of the Chicago metropolitan area and more...
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Fellowships: Short-Term Research Fellowships at the NYPL

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The New York Public Library is pleased to offer Short-Term Research Fellowships to support scholars from outside the New York metropolitan area engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, and independent research. Individuals needing to conduct on-site research in the Library’s special collections to support projects in the humanities, business and the arts are welcome to apply. Preference is given to scholars whose work is based on materials in the NYPL research collections, especially when those materials are unique. Each fellow is expected to be in residence at the Library for the duration of their fellowship and each fellow will be expected to produce a written summary of his/her experience working with the collections.  Fellowship stipends are $1,000 per week for a minimum of two and maximum of four weeks. Please visit http://nypl.org/research-collections for detailed information about the rich and varied research resources of The New York Public Library. Eligibility:  Only U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and foreign nationals who have been resident in the United States for the three years as of January...
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