The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries are pleased to offer a minimum of four grants-in-aid annually, each one month in duration, for research in the humanities in any field appropriate to the collections. The purpose is to foster the high-level use of the University of Wisconsin Madison Libraries' rich holdings, and to make them better known and more accessible to a wider circle of scholars. Awards are $1,000.00 each.

The Memorial Library is distinguished in almost every area of scholarship. It boasts world-renowned collections of:

-history of science from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment
-the largest American collection of avant-garde "Little Magazines"
-a rapidly growing collection of American women writers to 1920
-Scandinavian and Germanic history and literatures
-Dutch post-Reformation theology and church history
-French political pamphlets of the 16th and 17th centuries
-many other fields

Generally, applicants must have the Ph.D. or be able to demonstrate a record of solid intellectual accomplishment. Foreign scholars and graduate students who have completed all requirements except the dissertation are also eligible.

The grants-in-aid are designed primarily to help provide access to UW-Madison Library resources for people who live beyond commuting distance. Preference will be given to scholars who reside outside a seventy-five mile radius of Madison. The grantee is expected to be in residence during the term of the award, which may be taken up at any time during the year.

Completed applications are due March 1, 2002.

For more specific information and application forms, please write to:

Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
Award Committee
976 Memorial Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706

Or contact John Tortorice at:

Phone: 608-265-2505
Fax: 608-265-2754
e-mail: jtortorice@library.wisc.edu