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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