Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to issue the annual call for applications for the Kress
Fellowship at Yale. Please see the description below or go to:
http://www.library.yale.edu/art/kress5.html
Max Marmor
Arts Library
Yale
2001 Kress Fellowship in Art Librarianship at Yale University
The Yale University Arts Library welcomes applications for the 2001 Kress
Fellowship in Art Librarianship. The Kress Fellowship is intended for a
recent
graduate from library school who wishes to pursue a career in art
librarianship
or visual resources curatorship. Individuals working in a related discipline
(e.g., art history, museum studies, etc.) and considering the professional
transition to art librarianship or actively engaged with issues central to the
profession are also encouraged to apply. This fellowship is made possible
through the generosity of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Through this
fellowship, the Kress Foundation seeks to achieve in the field of art
librarianship what it has accomplished for art history and art conservation:
ensuring the growth of the discipline by promoting the advancement of new
professionals. Previous Kress Fellows are presently employed at the
Guggenheim
Museum, the Stanford University Library, in the Yale University Library, and
elsewhere.
The Arts Library at Yale serves a distinguished array of academic and museum
programs, architects, artists and scholars. Kress Fellows have the
opportunity
to interact routinely with faculty, staff and students in distinguished
Schools
of Architecture, Art, and Drama; a nationally ranked department of the History
of Art; and two outstanding university art museums, the Yale Center for
British
Art and the Yale University Art Gallery, the oldest university museum in the
country. They also have occasion to collaborate with colleagues from
throughout
the Yale University Library, including the Sterling Memorial Library, the
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Arts of the Book Collection,
and
the library and rare books department of the Center for British Art. The rich
professional and scholarly resources of New York City's art libraries are
close
at hand, providing still further opportunities for professional growth and
professional contact with colleagues.
Of all the critical issues facing art libraries today, none is more pressing,
and none requires more thoughtful and imaginative study, than the
transition to
a digital library environment. The Yale Library is actively engaged with two
complementary imaging initiatives: Imaging America
(http://www.library.yale.edu/art/Imaging_America.html), initiated by Yale, and
the Academic Image Cooperative
(http://www.clir.org/diglib/collections/aic.htm),
sponsored by the Digital Library Federation and the College Art Association.
The 2001 Kress Fellow will be encouraged to shape his/her fellowship around
these initiatives.
The Kress Fellowship is a competitive fellowship. Applicants should submit an
academic and professional resume as well as a brief statement of purpose and
names of three references. The statement of purpose is expected to reflect a
genuine commitment to art librarianship and the provision of information
services to the visual arts community. There is no application form.
Applications will be reviewed by a committee of Yale librarians and faculty.
The Kress Fellow will be in residence at Yale for eight months beginning in
January 2001, and will receive an award of $20,000, prorated over the
fellowship period.
For further information contact:
Max Marmor, Director
Arts Library
P.O. Box 208242
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8242
tel 203-432-2641
fax 203-432-0549
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Apply to:
Library Human Resources
Yale University Library
P.O. Box 208240
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Application deadline: October 1, 2000
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