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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 1998 Kress Fellowship in Art Librarianship at Yale University The Yale University Art & Architecture Library welcomes applications for the 1998 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. Individuals working in a related discipline (e.g., visual resources curatorship, 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 and rare books department 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 visual resources curatorship through the Art & Architecture Library's Visual Resources 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 1998 Kress Fellow will be in residence at Yale for six months (January-June, 1998), and will receive a stipend of $15,000. Application deadline: September 30, 1997 Apply to: Library Human Resources Yale University Library P.O. Box 208240 Yale University New Haven, CT 06520-8240 For further information contact: Max Marmor, Director Art & Architecture Library P.O. Box 208242 Yale University New Haven, CT 06520-8242 tel 203-432-2641 fax 203-432-0549