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Fellowship winners announced

• Date:   Mon, 20 May 2002 09:45:27 -0400
• To:   sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From:   Megan Sniffin-Marinoff <msniffin@MIT.EDU>
• Subject:   Fellowship winners announced
• Message-ID:   4.3.2.7.2.20020520094058.00d26910@po10.mit.edu

NHPRC Archival Research Fellowship Program

Executive Board:
Brenda Lawson, Massachusetts Historical Society
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joan Krizack, Northeastern University
Kathryn Jacob, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Mary Ide, WGBH Educational Foundation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

First NHPRC Archival Research Fellowships Awarded

                 The first group of NHPRC Archival Research Fellows 
selected to receive fellowship awards are Nancy Deromedi (Bentley 
Historical Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan), Richard Hollinger (University of 
Maine Special Collections, Orono, Maine), Elisabeth Kaplan (Charles Babbage 
Institute, University of Minnesota), and Richard Pearce-Moses (Arizona 
State Library, Archives and Public Records).

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission Archival 
Research Fellowship is a three-year program established with an award of 
$143,000 to manage a new, non-residential archival research fellowship 
program.  The program is administered by representatives from The 
Massachusetts Historical Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Northeastern University, Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute, 
and WGBH Educational Foundation.

Fellows are required to conduct research and write about a topic of 
importance to the archival profession.  The grant requires that proposals 
concerning electronic records be given a higher priority than others.  The 
topics of the first group of fellows are: Nancy Deromedi, Wired Faculty: 
Research to Assess the Archival Value of Faculty Websites to Document their 
Functions and Activities at the University of Michigan; Richard Hollinger, 
The Impact of Electronic Communications on Record Keeping Practices; 
Elisabeth Kaplan, Electronic Brains and Archival Minds: Archivists and 
Technology in the Postwar Era; and Richard Pearce-Moses, An Annotated 
Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators, and Records Managers.  This 
first group of fellows will present their findings in June 2003 in Boston 
at a symposium that will engage a broad spectrum of individuals.

The project was conceived to advance both basic and applied research and to 
encourage broad participation in the research process, enabling archivists, 
curators, and information specialists who work full-time under a 12-month 
contract the flexibility to conduct research.  Up to five fellowships of 
$10,000 each may be awarded each cycle.  Project funding is administered by 
the Massachusetts Historical Society.  Application materials for the next 
round of funding will be available shortly by contacting Brenda Lawson at 
the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 
02215 (phone: 617-646-0502/e-mail: blawson@masshist.org). The project 
Executive Board consists of Brenda Lawson (Massachusetts Historical 
Society), Megan Sniffin-Marinoff (MIT), Joan Krizack (Northeastern 
University), Kathryn Jacob (Schlesinger Library/Radcliffe Institute), and 
Mary Ide (WGBH).

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Direct communications to: Massachusetts Historical Society , 1154 Boylston 
Street  Boston, MA 02215  Attn: Brenda Lawson  (Tel: 617/646-0502,  Fax: 
617/859-0074,  Email: blawson@masshist.org)

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Megan G. Sniffin-Marinoff
Head, Institute Archives and Special Collections
MIT Libraries
Building 14N-118
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307

Phone   617.253.5688 or 617.253.5690
Fax     617.258.7305
Email   msniffin@mit.edu
http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/