CDL: Irene Vaslef Fellowship in Librarianship, Summer 2003.

From:  "Klos, Sheila" <KlosS_at_DOAKS.org>

Irene Vaslef Fellowship in Librarianship, Summer 2003.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is pleased to announce the 
inauguration of the Irene Vaslef Fellowship in Librarianship, a competitive 
program intended to serve librarians responsible for specialized collection 
development in university or research libraries that do not support a 
librarian's position dedicated solely to their discipline. The fellowship 
will provide for a month's summer residence at Dumbarton Oaks for the purpose 
of professional development for a librarian holding responsibility
for Byzantine Studies, Garden History and Landscape Studies, or Pre-Columbian 
Studies. 

This program is intended to strengthen library services in institutions that 
cannot afford a full-time specialist in the areas of Dumbarton Oaks' 
strengths, and to enhance our own library's research services in an 
increasingly interconnected world. Applicants may be full time bibliographers 
with collection assignments in multiple specializations, reference librarians 
with additional responsibility for collection development, or bibliographers 
who also have technical services responsibilities. Facility in written and
spoken English is required

The Fellowship is named for Irene Vaslef whose 30 years of dedicated service 
in Byzantine Studies collection development helped shape the Dumbarton Oaks 
Research Library. It offers a stipend of $215 per week during residence at 
Dumbarton Oaks (July 7 - August 1, 2003), housing in the Fellows Building, 
lunch on weekdays, Dumbarton Oaks' contribution to health insurance, and 
travel expense reimbursement (not to exceed the lowest available airfare, 
up to a maximum of $1,300) if other travel support cannot be obtained. 

Application deadline is February 28, 2003. Applicants should submit the 
following:

1-   curriculum vitae. 

2-   letter of application describing a bibliographic project that uses the 
resources found at Dumbarton Oaks and how such a project will specifically 
benefit the applicant's home institution.  Preference is given to proposals 
of mutual benefit.

3-   contact information for 3 references, one of whom must be the 
applicant's current supervisor. 

The selection committee will make its decision by March 15, 2003 
and all applicants will be notified of the result. 

Submit applications to: 
Sheila Klos 
Head Librarian 
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library 
1703 32nd Street, NW 
Washington, DC  20007-2961      
www.doaks.org