The Rare Book & Manuscript Library annually awards stipends of $3,000 to scholars and researchers, unaffiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who would like to come and spend a month or so of study with our materials.
The research strengths of The Rare Book & Manuscript Library are manifold. Comprehensive collections support studies in printing and printing history, Renaissance studies, Elizabethan and Stuart life and letters, John Milton and his age, emblem studies, economic history, and works on early science and natural history. The library also houses the papers of such diverse literary figures as Carl Sandburg, H.G. Wells, William Maxwell, and W.S. Merwin.
For further information about this program and how to apply, or to find out more about The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, please visit our Web site at:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/rbx/research_grants.htm
Or contact the Public Programs Manager, Dennis Sears:
217-333-7242
dsears@illinois.edu