The UCLA Library Special Collections Short-Term Library Research Fellowship Program
2014 UCLA Library Special Collections
Short-Term Research Fellowships
The UCLA Library Special Collections Short-Term Library
Research
Fellowship 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.
Fellowships
James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowships
Thayer fellowships provide support for research in any
discipline.
Awards are funded by an endowment established by longtime
UCLA
benefactors James and Sylvia Thayer. Stipends range from
$500 to $2,500,
though awards vary yearly. Grants in 2012 averaged $998;
in 2013,
$1,710.
Barbara Rootenberg Library Research Fellowship in the
History of
Medicine and the Life Sciences
Rootenberg fellowships will be awarded in the amount of
$1,000. The
primary goal of the fellowship is to help to promote the
use of
materials related to the history of medicine and life
sciences in UCLA
Library Special Collections. The award is named for
Barbara Rootenberg,
an alumna of the UCLA School of Library Service and an
internationally-renowned antiquarian bookseller.
Charles Donald O'Malley Short-Term Research Fellowships
for Research in
the History of Medicine and Allied Fields
O'Malley fellowships will be awarded in stipends up to
$1,500.
Researchers are to conduct work primarily in collections
of History and
Special Collections for the Sciences, the Library Special
Collections
unit located in the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library;
other UCLA
Library Special Collections also may be used. These
awards, which honor
the memory of Charles D. O'Malley, a Vesalian scholar and
the first
full-time chair of the Department of Medical History at
UCLA, are funded
by the Department of Neurobiology in the David Geffen
School of Medicine
at UCLA.
Davise Short-Term Research Fellowships in Contemporary
Music
Davise fellowships support research in UCLA Library
collections in the
areas of modern and contemporary concert music and film
music. Funded
by the UCLA Music Library's Hugo and Christine Davise
Endowment, they
offer amounts ranging from $500 to $2,000.
Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval
and Renaissance
Manuscripts and Books
Ahmanson fellowships of $2,500 per month for up to three
months support
the use of medieval and Renaissance monographic and
manuscript holdings
in the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of the Aldine Press,
Ahmanson-Murphy
Collection of Early Italian Printing, Elmer Belt Library
of Vinciana,
Orsini Family Papers, Medieval and Renaissance
Manuscripts Collection,
Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and
Renaissance
Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, and Medieval and
Renaissance Arabic
and Persian Medical Manuscripts. They are administered by
the UCLA
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and require a
separate
application; application information is available on the
center's
website at http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/awards.
Eligibility
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 eligible to
apply. Research
residencies can last up to three months between February
15 and December
12, 2014.
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 can last up to three months
between July 1,
2014, and June 30, 2015.
Application Contents
Researchers can submit a single application in order to
be considered
for any or all of the Thayer, Rootenberg, O'Malley, and
Davise
fellowships.
Applications must be received on or before December 9,
2013, and 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 librarians
or staff of
the UCLA Library.
Application Instructions
Application materials, including letters of
recommendation, can be
submitted in PDF format by email to
<lib_lscfellowships@library.ucla.edu<mailto:lib_lscfellowships@library.ucla.edu>>. Letters of recommendation in PDF format also
can 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 its decision by email on or before January
15, 2014.
Fellows may be asked to speak briefly about their recent
or ongoing
research at an informal brownbag session with local
scholars during
their visit.
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
e-mail:
lib_lscfellowships@library.ucla.edu<mailto:lib_lscfellowships@library.ucla.edu