CDL: Irene Vaslef Fellowship in Librarianship

From: "Brown, Deb" <BrownD_at_DOAKS.org>


Irene Vaslef Fellowship in Librarianship

Summer 2004


The Irene Vaslef Fellowship in Librarianship is 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 one of the following 
disciplines.  The fellowship provides a ten-week 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.   The fellowship 
period is June 7 – August 13, 2004.



This program is intended to strengthen library services in 
institutions that do not have 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, housing in a Dumbarton Oaks 
apartment, 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 December 31, 2003.   Applicants should submit 
the following:

1.      curriculum vitae.

2.      letter of application describing a bibliographic project that 
uses the resources found at DumbartonOaks 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 January 15, 2004 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



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