From: Dee Jones <dee.jones>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 09:18:32 -0500

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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, sponsored by the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, 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, dating from 1530 to the present. Holdings include approximately 70,000 books and manuscript and illustration collections created by more than 1200 authors and illustrators. More information on the de Grummond Collection and its holdings can be found at our website http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum Specific information on the Fellowship can be found at http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/fllwshp.htm

Grants of up to $1200 are available to applicants of any discipline who engage in projects that require substantial use of the de Grummond Collection. Fellowship applications must be postmarked on or before January 11, 2002; applicants will be notified of our decision by January 31, 2002. For more information, please contact:

Dee Jones, Curator de Grummond Collection Box 5148 University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, MS 39406Q48 email: dee.jones at usm.edu phone: 601&6C49




******************************************************************** Dee Jones, Curator Phone: 601&6C49 de Grummond Collection Fax: 601&6b69 Box 5148 www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum

University of Southern Mississippi e-mail: dee.jones at usm.edu Hattiesburg, MS 39406Q48
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