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        THE GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
        RESOURCE COLLECTIONS

NOTICE
Temporary Suspension of the Research Support Grants Program

This notice is to inform you that the Getty Research Institute for the
History of Art and the Humanities has temporarily suspended its
Research Support Grants program until January 1998, in anticipation of
its move to a new site in the west Los Angeles area. We will begin
accepting applications for Research Support Grants again effective
November 1997. At that time our address will be 1200 Getty Center
Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049.

Donald Anderle
Assistant Director for Resource Collections

RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANTS:
Guidelines/Qualifications/Applications

Research support grants are intended to help scholars and advanced
students who are otherwise unaffiliated with the Getty Research
Institute to pursue short-term research projects requiring the use of the
unique resources held in the Research Institute's Resource Collections.

Qualifications:  Applicants should have exhausted the archival and
library resources available to them in local repositories and be able to
demonstrate a compelling need to use Research Institute materials that
are otherwise unavailable to them. A limited number of grants to cover
part of travel and per diem expenses or miscellaneous research costs
will be available on a competitive basis. The amount of the stipend will
vary based upon the distance traveled and the duration of stay.

Applications:  Persons seeking research support grants should submit
a letter containing a short description of their project and indicating the
collections or resources relevant to their research that they wish to
consult at the Institute. Applications will again be accepted
effective November 1997. Grants will be offered beginning in
January 1998. Letters should be sent to Donald Anderle, Assistant
Director for Resource Collections, the Getty Research Institute for the
History of Art and the Humanities, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles,
CA  90049. Applications will be reviewed by the Research Support
Grants Committee, which will forward its recommendations to the
Director of the Getty Research Institute.


The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, an
operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is dedicated to advanced
research in the history of art, broadly defined as an integral part of
human history and society. Its goals are to cross the traditional
boundaries imposed on academic institutions and to bring together
scholars from around the world to reexamine the meaning of art and
artifacts within past and present cultures and to reassess their
importance within the full scope of the humanities and social sciences.
The materials to support such scholarship are contained in the Research
Institute's Resource Collections, which include books, manuscripts,
prints, drawings, photographs, and unpublished documentary materials
on the history of art and architecture and related fields.