Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship Program at Library of Congress

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Announcement - Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship Program

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

Following is the announcement of the Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship,

offered by the Library of Congress Asian Division.

 

Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship Program Announced

 

The Asian Division Friends Society announces the Florence Tan Moeson

Research Fellowship for 2009. This fellowship is made possible by a

generous donation of Florence Tan Moeson, for 43 years a Chinese Team

cataloger in the Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division before

she

retired in 2001.

 

The purpose of the fellowship is to give individuals the opportunity

to

use the Asian collections in the Library of Congress, which are among

the

most significant outside of Asia and consist of nearly 2.8 million

books,

periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts and microforms in the languages

of

East, South and Southeast Asia.

 

Researchers wishing to submit applications should go to this Web site:

www.lcasianfriends.org/fellowship. The deadline for applying for the

2009

fellowship program is September 30, 2008.

 

The Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship consists of $14,000 each

year

for 10 years in support of grants for research using the Asian

Division's

Reading Room and the Library's extensive Asian collections. The grants

will be awarded upon demonstration of need. Grants are intended to pay

for

travel to and from Washington, overnight accommodations and

photocopying

fees. Graduate and upper-level undergraduate students, independent

scholars, community college teachers, researchers without regular

teaching

appointments, and librarians with a demonstrated need for fellowship

support are especially encouraged to apply.

 

The Library's Asian collection began in 1869 with a gift of 10 works

in

933 volumes from the emperor of China to the United States. Spanning a

diversity of subjects from China, Japan, Korea, the South Asian

subcontinent and Southeast Asia, the Library's Asian collections have

become one of the most accessible and comprehensive sources of Asian

language materials in the world.

 

For further information about the collection, visit the Asian

Division€™s

Web site at

www.loc.gov/rr/asian/.

 

Thank you.

Anchi Hoh, Ph.D.

Co-Chair, Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship Program Committee

Asian Division

Library of Congress

(202) 707-5673

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