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Colonial Dames Society Scholarship Award



Hello Everyone,
I've been asked to forward the following
announcement to the Archives Listserve. If
interested, please respond as indicated in the
announcement.

Thanks,
Bob Schmidt
Archives Listserve Coordinator
Miami University Archives
Oxford, Ohio 45056
513-529-6720
rschmidt@lib.muohio.edu

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Colonial Dames Scholarship Available for the
Modern Archives Institute (Deadline:  Applications
must be postmarked by February 28, 2002)

     This award, which was established in 1974 and
given in conjunction
with the Colonial Dames of America, has provided
funding for two
archivists each year to attend the National
Archives' Modern Archives
Institute.  This year money for an additional
scholarship has been
donated and will be awarded for the upcoming
Institute.  The Institute
is held twice each year: January/February and
June.  The award covers up
to $1200 of the total tuition, travel, and housing
expenses (tuition is
$645).  To be eligible, an applicant must be an
employee of an archival
institution or agency with a fair percentage of
its holdings in a period
predating 1825; have been employed less than two
years as an archivist
or archives trainee; and actually be working with
archives or manuscripts regardless of title.
Scholarships to the Modern Archives Institute to
be held from June 3 - 14, 2002, are now available.
Applications must be postmarked no later than
February 28, 2002.

     If you would like to apply for this
scholarship, please submit "in
triplicate" a resume and two letters of
recommendation from persons
having definite knowledge of your qualifications.
Again, applications
for the June Institute must be postmarked no later
than February 28,
2002, and should be addressed to:

Bill Brock, Co-chair SAA Awards Committee
Collection Management Archivist
Presbyterian Historical Society
P.O. Box 846
318 Georgia Terrace
Montreat, NC  28757
Tel.  828/669-7061
Fax. 828/669-5369

     Requests  for additional information should
be addressed to:

Society of American Archivists
527 S. Wells, 5th Floor
Chicago, IL  60607
Tel.  312/922-0140
Fax. 312/347-1452

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