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Special Collections Library offers $1,500 summer travel awards

The Eberly Family Special Collections Library invites applications for its annual Summer Research Travel Awards. Awards are available in five different categories to applicants who reside outside a 100-mile radius of State College, Pa., and who are not Penn State faculty, staff or students.

For more information on the five categories of awards and additional requirements, or to apply online, visit: https://libraries.psu.edu/about/libraries/special-collections-library/apply-travel-grant.

Applications are due by April 15, 2017, and recipients will be notified by May 1, 2017.  Contact Instruction & Outreach Archivist Julie Porterfield, at jmp48@psu.edu with any questions.

Please feel free to share this opportunity with your colleagues at other institutions. An 8.5×11 downloadable flyer with the details is available here.

– submitted by Julie Porterfield, Special Collections Library

Library offers $1,500 research travel grant awards

Four $1,500 travel grants are currently available to researchers who use collections from The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, located in 104 Paterno Library, within the University Libraries at Penn State University Park. The application deadline is Friday, February 28, 2014, and grant recipients will be announced March 31. The grants cover expenses incurred with travel between June and August 2014, to use University Park resources. Any faculty member, graduate student, or independent scholar with a research project that utilizes the Special Collections Library and lives beyond a 100-mile radius of State College, Pennsylvania, may apply for the grant. More details coming soon.