[booklyn] Smithsonian Institution Libraries 2010 Resident Scholar Programs

Smithsonian Institution Libraries 2010 Resident Scholar Programs
Situated at the center of the world's largest museum complex, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) is a vital part of the research, exhibition, and educational enterprise of the Institution. Each Smithsonian scholar engages in an individual voyage of discovery using the artifacts and specimens of the Smithsonian Institution in conjunction with the written and illustrated record of the past. The Libraries is uniquely positioned to help visitors and scholars understand the continuing vitality of this relationship, via exceptional research resources ranging from 15th-century manuscripts to electronic journals.
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries awards stipends of $3,500/month up to six months for scholars doing research in its Special Collections. Historians, librarians, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows are all welcome to apply. The Libraries' catalog is available at http://www.siris.si.edu. Scholars are expected to be in residence at the Smithsonian Libraries during their research within the award period, January to December 2010.
Scholars wanting to do research primarily in the history of science and technology in the Dibner Library can apply for the Dibner Library Resident Scholar Program. Scholars interested in working in the Libraries' other Special Collections should consider the Baird Society Resident Scholar Program.
The Resident Scholar Programs support research exclusively in the Special Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries, located at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library (Washington, DC); The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology (Washington, DC); Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History (Washington, DC); National Air and Space Museum Library (Washington, DC); National Museum of American History Library (Washington, DC); and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library (New York, NY).
The Special Collections encompasses a wide variety of subject areas and time periods including physical sciences (especially mathematics, chemistry, and earth sciences); theoretical and experimental physics (especially electricity and magnetism); engineering (scientific apparatus and instruments); astronomy (classical and Renaissance natural philosophy); natural history rare books (botany, zoology, and exploration); museums and collecting; physical, social, and cultural anthropology; 19th- and early 20th-century World's Fair materials; commercial trade catalogs from the 1840s and present; air, space, and aviation history (including ballooning and rocketry); and European and American decorative arts, architecture, and design.
Deadline for application is May 15, 2009. For more information and to download the application forms please visit http://www.sil.si.edu/Galaxy.cfm?id=3.3. E-mail or mail a request for the form to SILResidentScholars@xxxxxx or to Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Resident Scholar Programs, PO Box 37012, NMAH 1041 MRC 672, Washington, DC 20013-7012. 


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