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This fellowship was first announced in May. Please pardon this final call!
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Kress Fellowship in Art Librarianship at Yale University
The Yale University Art & Architecture Library announces a new fellowship
for a recent graduate from library school who wishes to pursue a career in
art librarianship. Individuals working in a related discipline (e.g., art
history, museum studies, art conservation, computer science, etc.) and
considering a transition to art librarianship or actively engaged with
issues central to the profession are also encouraged to apply. This
fellowship has been 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 development of new professionals.
The Art & Architecture Library at Yale serves a distinguished array of
academic and museum programs, architects, artists and scholars. Kress
fellows will interact daily with faculty, staff and students in
distinguished Schools of Architecture and Art, a nationally ranked
department of Art History, and two outstanding university galleries, the
Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery--the oldest
university museum in the country. They will also have occasion to
collaborate with colleagues from several Yale libraries, including the
Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
and the library of the Center for British Art. And, of course, the rich
professional and scholarly resources of New York City's art libraries are
nearby.
Kress Fellows will be introduced to a broad spectrum of professional
activities. They will have the opportunity to provide reference and
information services, offer bibliographical instruction to undergraduates
and graduate students in the classroom and the library, assist users with an
increasing range of electronic resources, perform collection development
activities, and learn about slide and photograph curatorship through the Art
& Architecture Library's Slides and Photographs Collection.
Participants will be expected to pursue a mutually agreed-upon project
during their tenure at Yale, resulting in a serviceable product: a
publishable paper or other form of art documentation (collection guides,
bibliographic guides, etc.), a new kind of library service, etc.
Of all the critical issues facing art libraries today, none is more
pressing--and none requires more thoughtful and imaginative study--than the
impending transition to an electronic library environment. The Yale Library
is committed to pioneering the provision of new and enhanced library
services through the judicious application of emerging technologies. The
Art & Architecture Library is actively designing a new model of academic art
library services. We believe our work here will benefit the entire art
library community, and will, where suitable, encourage Kress Foundation
fellows to address a range of issues pertinent to this initiative.
The Kress Fellowship is a competitive fellowship. Applicants should submit
an academic and professional resume as well as a 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. Applications will be reviewed by a
committee of Yale librarians and faculty.
The first Kress Fellow will be in residence at Yale for six months (January
1-June 30, 1997), and will receive a stipend of $15,000.
For further information or to apply, please contact:
Max Marmor, Director tel. 203 432 2641
Art & Architecture Library fax 203 432 0549
P.O. Box 208242 email: [log in to unmask]
Yale University http://www.library.yale.edu/art/kress.html
New Haven, CT 06520-8242 Application deadline: September 30, 1996.
