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The application due date for the 2010 Dibner Library Resident Scholar
Program and the Baird Society Resident Scholar Program is quickly
approaching! If you are a historian, librarian, bibliographer, or a
pre- or postdoctoral student, please apply!
Dibner Library Resident Scholars will do research in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology
in the National Museum of American History. The Dibner Library
specializes in the physical sciences and technology, and holds over
25,000 rare books and 10,000 manuscripts covering a wide variety of
subject areas and time periods, particularly in mathematics, astronomy,
classical and Renaissance natural philosophy, theoretical physics,
experimental physics, engineering and scientific apparatus and
instruments. The collections range from early printed works of ancient
Greek and medieval scholars through the Renaissance and Early Modern
eras up through the nineteenth century. There are significant works by
Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy, Galileo, Descartes, Newton and many others.
This award is supported by The Dibner Fund.
Baird Society Resident Scholars
will do research in other Libraries special collections located in
Washington, DC and New York, NY. Included are nineteenth and early
twentieth century World’s Fairs printed materials; manufacturers’
commercial trade catalogs, numbering over 300,000 pieces and
representing 30,000 companies from the 1840s to the present; natural
history rare books; the air and space history special collection for
the study of ballooning, rocketry, and aviation from the late
eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries; James Smithson’s library;
and the European and American decorative arts, architecture, and design
special collection, which spans the eighteenth to the twentieth
centuries. This award is supported by the Smithsonian Libraries Spencer
Baird Society.
May 15 is the application deadline for the two scholar programs. For application materials and
further information about special collections visit our website or e-mail the Libraries. —Liz O'Brien
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