{"id":2324,"date":"2016-11-22T15:28:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T21:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonsolusblog.wordpress.com\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2021-03-08T18:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:44:21","slug":"university-of-illinois-urbana-rare-book-manuscript-library-invites-visiting-scholar-applications-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/2016\/11\/22\/university-of-illinois-urbana-rare-book-manuscript-library-invites-visiting-scholar-applications-2\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Illinois-Urbana Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library  Invites Visiting Scholar Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The John &#8220;Bud&#8221; Velde Visiting Scholars Program<br \/>\nThe Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library<br \/>\nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2017-18 Program Cycle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library annually awards two stipends of $3,000 to scholars and researchers (unaffiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) who would like to spend a month or more conducting research with our materials.<\/p>\n<p>The holdings of The Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library are comprehensive and support studies in printing and printing history, Renaissance studies, Elizabethan and Stuart life and letters, John Milton and his age, emblem studies, economic history, Italian history, and works on early science and natural history.<\/p>\n<p>The library also houses the papers of the modern literary figures Carl Sandburg, H.G. Wells, William Maxwell, W.S. Merwin, and the world&#8217;s single largest collection of Marcel Proust&#8217;s correspondence. In addition, it is anticipated that the papers of Gwendolyn Brooks will be open to the public for this latest program cycle.<\/p>\n<p>For information about this program, how to apply, and to find out more about The Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library, please visit our Website at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/research-instruction\/fellowships\/\">https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/research-instruction\/fellowships\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please contact Dennis Sears with further questions about the program or The Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library:<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Sears<br \/>\nThe Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library<br \/>\nUniversity of Illinois Library, Room 346<br \/>\n1408 West Gregory Drive<br \/>\nUrbana, IL 61801<br \/>\nUSA<br \/>\n(217) 333 7242 voice, (217) 244 1755 fax<\/p>\n<p>Or email Dennis: dsears (at) illinois (dot) edu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadline for application: *17 February 2017*.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Sears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The John &#8220;Bud&#8221; Velde Visiting Scholars Program The Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2017-18 Program Cycle The Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library annually awards two stipends of $3,000 to scholars and researchers (unaffiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) who would like to spend a month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4782,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/4782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}