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fellowship opportunity

From: Dee Jones <dajones>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 17:59:44 GMT

The de Grummond Collection would like to announce the following fellowship opportunity. This message is being cross-posted to several lists, so please excuse the duplication.

The Ezra Jack Keats/de Grummond Collection Children's Literature Research Fellowship Program awards grants to scholars engaged in research projects based substantially on the holdings of the de Grummond Collection. The purpose of this program is to encourage imaginative and productive research in children's literature and specifically to encourage and facilitate scholarly use of the resources of the de Grummond Collection. This Collection contains books and original materials that focus on American and British children's literature, historical as well as contemporary. More information about the de Grummond Collection holdings can be obtained at http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum

Grants of up to $900 may be made to applicants of any discipline who engage in projects that require substantial use of the de Grummond Collection. The funding is used to defray expenses for travel, hotel, and food.

Fellowship applications must be submitted before January 30, 1998; applicants will be notified of decisions by February 15, 1998. For more information and an application form, please contact:

Dee Jones, Curator de Grummond Collection Box 5148 University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, MS 39406Q48

Phone: 601&6C49 Fax: 601&6D09 e-mail: dee.jones at usm.edu

An application blank can be printed from http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/fllwapp.htm

Information about Hattiesburg's location and hotels can be found at http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/hotels.htm http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/roadmaps.htm


******************************************************************** Dee Jones, Curator Phone: 601&6C49 de Grummond Collection Fax: 601&6D09 University Libraries E-mail: dee.jones at usm.edu Box 5148 URL: http://www.lib.usm. University of Southern Mississippi edu/degrumm.htm Hattiesburg, MS 39406Q48
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