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Applications for the 1804 Special Library Endowment Fund(opens in a new window) and the Arts and Humanities Junior Faculty Endowment Fund(opens in a new window) are now open for 2023 submissions.

Established in 1979 to help University Libraries curate distinctive collections, the 1804 Endowment is open to all faculty, students and staff, while the Junior Faculty Endowment is for tenure-track faculty who are wanting to advance their personal research.

Recipients are awarded funds for the purchase of materials to be added to the Libraries’ collections that further the teaching, learning and research needs of faculty, staff and students. The endowment funds are for valuable or rare materials, or items that wouldn’t normally be purchased with the Libraries’ annual acquisitions funds. The awardees of the endowments are also recommended to the dean of University Libraries by the University Library Committee, which is a group of faculty and staff appointed by the President.

All students, faculty and staff are encouraged to apply for the 1804 Special Library Endowment Fund, and faculty who are working toward their tenure requiring specialized research materials can apply for the Arts and Humanities Junior Faculty Endowment Fund. The deadline for applications is March 13, 2023. 

The three 1804 Special Library Fund Endowment 2022 recipients were Miriam Shadis(opens in a new window), Michele Clouse(opens in a new window) and John Brobst(opens in a new window), all of whom are associate professors in history.

Shadis’ proposal was for the purchase of four expensive facsimiles of medieval books. The titles include, “Commentary on the Apocalypse,” by Beatus Liébana, who was a Spanish monk and theologian, as well as “Biblia San Louis” which was a moralized Bible commissioned by Louis IX of France, and sent to his cousin, Fernando III of Castile.

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