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     THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
     Center for the Humanities
     Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
     New York, New York  10018-2788
 
 
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     Center for Scholars and Writers
 
 
     The New York Public Library invites applications for fellowships from
     September 1999
     to May 2000 in the first year of its new Center for Scholars and
     Writers.  To be housed,
     with individual offices, in two spacious rooms now being readied in
     the landmark library
     at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.   The Center will  provide
     opportunities to explore the
     rich and diverse collections of the New York Public Library.   The
     Center for Scholars
     and Writers will also serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas among
     the fellows,
     invited guests, the wider academic and cultural communities, and the
     interested public.
 
     The Fellowships are open to scholars, non-academic research
     professionals, scientists
     engaged with the humanities, and creative writers of demonstrated
     achievement
     regardless of nationality, whose proposed subjects will benefit
     directly from access to the
     Library's collections at the Center for the Humanities.  There will be
     fifteen fellows. Five
     fellowships will be awarded in conjunction with the American Council
     of Learned
     Societies.
 
     The Library's Fifth Avenue facility, now called The Center for the
     Humanities, is
     renowned for the extraordinary comprehensives of its collections and
     is one of the
     world's preeminent resources for study in the fields of anthropology,
     art, geography,
     history, languages and literatures of the world, philosophy, politics,
     popular culture,
     psychology, religion, sociology, and sports.
 
     Fellows  will be required to be in continuous residence for the length
     of the award and to
     participate as much as possible in Center activities including daily
     lunches, readings,
     lectures, colloquia, symposia, and conferences.  Each will be
     responsible for a public
     presentation_a reading, a paper, a lecture_ of publishable quality.
     The fellows' stipend
     will be $50,000 and, when necessary, a housing allowance.
 
     The deadline for submission of applications is October 2, 1998.  For
     further information
     or to request  a brochure outlining the holdings of the Library (which
     should precede the
     submission of an application), please  write to the Center for
     Scholars and Writers,
                Peter Gay, Director or
                Pamela Leo, Assistant Director
                The New York Public Library
                Room 103
                Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
                New York, New York  10018-2788