----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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.