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From: Johnson, Russell
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 2:12 PM
To: All Library Staff <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for Applications: 2016 UCLA Library Special Collections Short-term Research Fellowships

Please distribute this to interested colleagues. Thank you!

Russell Johnson

Chair, UCLA Library Special Collections Fellowships Committee

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https://www.library.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/UCLA-LSC-Fellowships-2016.pdf

2016 UCLA Library Special Collections

Short-term Research Fellowships

www.library.ucla.edu/special-collections/about/short-term-research-fellowships

The UCLA Library Special Collections Short-term Research

Fellowships Program supports the use of special collections

materials by visiting scholars and UCLA graduate students.

Collections that are administered by UCLA Library Special

Collections and available for fellowship-supported research

include materials in the humanities and social sciences, medicine,

life and physical sciences, visual and performing arts, and UCLA

history.

THE FELLOWSHIPS

James and Sylvia Thayer Short-term Research Fellowships

Thayer fellowships provide support for research in any

collections administered by UCLA Library Special Collections.

Stipends range from $500 to $2,500 and vary yearly; grants

in 2014 averaged $1,530 and in 2015 averaged $1,300.

Awards are funded by an endowment established by longtime

UCLA benefactors James and Sylvia Thayer.

Barbara Rootenberg Library Research Fellowship in

the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences

Rootenberg fellowships promote the use of materials

in History & Special Collections for the Sciences in UCLA

Library Special Collections. One annual fellowship is

awarded in the amount of $1,000. The award is named

for Barbara Rootenberg, an alumna of the UCLA

School of Library Service and an internationally-renowned

antiquarian bookseller.

Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Books

Ahmanson Fellowships support the use of medieval and

Renaissance monographic and manuscript holdings in

UCLA Library Special Collections: the Ahmanson-Murphy

Collection of the Aldine Press; the Ahmanson-Murphy

Collection of Early Italian Printing; the Elmer Belt Library of

Vinciana; the Orsini Family Papers; the Bourbon del Monte

de San Faustino Family Papers; the Medieval and

Renaissance Manuscripts Collection; the Richard and

Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance

Manuscripts and Early Printed Books; and the Medieval

and Renaissance Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts.

The fellowships provide $2,500 per month for up to three

months. Administered by the UCLA Center for Medieval

and Renaissance Studies, this program requires an

application separate from that for Thayer and Rootenberg

fellowships; information is available on the Center for

Medieval and Renaissance Studies website at

<www.cmrs.ucla.edu/awards>.

ELIGIBILITY

Thayer and Rootenberg Fellowships: United States citizens

and permanent residents with the legal right to work in the U.S.

who are engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, or independent

research are invited to apply. Research residencies may last

up to three months between February 1 and December 11, 2016.

Ahmanson Fellowships: United States and international

graduate students or scholars holding a PhD (or the foreign

equivalent) who are engaged in graduate-level, postdoctoral,

or independent research are invited to apply. Research residencies

may last up to three months between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017.

APPLICATION CONTENTS

Researchers can submit a single application for “Short-term

Research Fellowships” in order to be considered for either the

Thayer or Rootenberg fellowships. Applications must be received

on or before December 1, 2015.

Applications must include:

· Cover letter

· Curriculum vitae

· Outline of research topic and special collections

to be used (two pages maximum)

· Brief budget for travel, living, and research expenses

· Dates to be spent in residence

· Two letters of recommendation from faculty or

other scholars familiar with the research project.

Please note that the committee cannot consider

letters of recommendation from the librarians or

staff of the UCLA Library.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Application materials, including letters of recommendation,

may be submitted in PDF format by email to

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in PDF format can also be sent by email, either by the person

writing them or by the applicant.

REVIEW PROCESS AND NOTIFICATION

A committee will evaluate the research proposals,

and applicants will be notified of the committee’s

decision by email on or before January 15, 2016.

Fellows may be asked to speak briefly about their recent

or ongoing research at an informal brownbag session

with local scholars during their visit.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Submit print format applications, or direct questions

about fellowships, to:

Short-term Research Fellowships Program

UCLA Library Special Collections

A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

Phone: 310.825.6940

Email: [log in to unmask]

Web : www.library.ucla.edu/special-collections/about/short-term-research-fellowships

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