Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the library’s research collections. Up to $3,500 is available per award, and last year the Friends made twenty-two awards totaling over $50,000. The deadline to apply is January 15, 2011.

Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, including Mudd Library; as well as rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection).  Special grants are awarded in several areas:  the Program in Hellenic Studies supports a limited number of library fellowships in Hellenic studies, and the Cotsen Children’s Library supports research in its collection on aspects of children’s books. The Maxwell Fund supports research on materials dealing with Portuguese-speaking cultures. The Sid Lapidus '59 Research Fund for Studies of the Age of Revolution and the Enlightenment in the Atlantic World covers work using materials pertinent to this topic.

Applicants should have specific Princeton resources in mind as they prepare their proposals.  The general circulating collections and electronic resources of the Princeton University Library are not relevant for purposes of this grant program. 

For more information, or to apply, please go to Friends of the Princeton University Library, Library Research Grants.

Sandra Ludig Brooke

Librarian

Marquand Library of Art & Archaeology

Princeton University

Princeton NJ 08544

(609) 258-5860