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Vol. 25:3 ISSN 0160-8460 Fall 1997
Individual Applications Invited for Fellowship in Archival Administration
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) is now accepting applications from individuals for its Fellowship in Archival Administration, which provides advanced administrative training in archives. For the 1998-99 fellowship year, the stipend for the archival fellow is $42,000 (includes fringe benefits). The fellowship is for a nine-to twelve-month period beginning between August and October 1998. The fellow will also have some funds available for professional travel during his/her fellowship year. The application postmark deadline is March 1, 1998.
Fellows are provided with a series of administrative and decision-making experiences. Included in past fellowships have been such diverse areas as appraisal, budget preparation, personnel administration, publications, plant operation, long-range planning, disaster planning, collection policy development, and committee activities. In addition to work in these areas of administration, the fellow is expected to complete a technical project. Administrative fellowship applicants should have between two and five years' experience in professional archival work. While not required, it is desirable that applicants have the equivalent of two semesters of full-time graduate training in a program containing an archival education component.
Host Institution: Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. The fellow will participate in all aspects of work at Mudd Library, which include, but are not limited to, preparing the library's annual report, participating in staff meetings, working with donors, preparing grant proposals, and budget development. For the technical project, the fellow will undertake a technical analysis of the Public Services unit to determine how the physical structure of the building hampers the reception, security, materials management, and photocopy operations of the library. In addition to the analytical report, the fellow will create a bibliography of existing publications relating to design of archival repositories and present several alternative plans for reconfiguration of the spaces in Mudd Library.
