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Boston Public Library
Alicia Monti Research Fellowship
Music Department
McKim Building, 3rd Floor
617-536-5400, ext. 2285

The Boston Public Library is pleased to announce the biennial Alicia Monti Research Fellowship for research in the collections of the Music Department. Besides its research collection, the Department is well known for its Allen A. Brown Collection a collection of over 60,000 volumes which is extremely rich in 19th century opera and orchestral scores, part-songs, chamber music and documentation on musical life in Boston at the turn of the century. The Department also houses the Walter Piston Collection, the Koussevitzky Collection from the Koussevitzky Seranak residence in the Berkshires, Victor Young and Koudelka Collections. More recently, the Department has received the William Thomas McKinley and Leo Snyder manuscript collections as well as the archives of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston. The fellowship is intended to stimulate the use of special collections and manuscripts at the Boston Public Library and to provide new or additional access to original sources.

APPOINTMENTS
The fellowship carries a stipend of $2000 and has a duration of one month. A brief report or informal talk related to the research completed is to be presented as part of the fellowship experience.

ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION
The Alicia Monti Fellowship supports doctoral, postdoctoral or equivalent research in the collections of the Music Department of the Boston Public Library. Applicants must be US citizens and may not be employees or relatives of employees of the Boston Public Library. The Alicia Monti Fellow must be in residence during the summer of 2007. No special application form is required.

Applicants are asked to submit

• a resume,
• two confidential letters of recommendation, and
• a brief research proposal.

Research proposals should not exceed three (3) pages. The proposed dates of research must be included.

Submissions should be forwarded to:

Office of the President
Alicia Monti Fellowship
Boston Public Library
PO Box 286
Boston, MA 02117-0286

The selection of candidates will be based on considerations involving

• the value of the project to the Library and to scholarship
• the applicant's ability to complete the project based on the documentation submitted
• the project's timeline in relation to other proposals received.

As appropriate, the Library may seek the advice of an outside authority with academic qualifications or other equivalent expertise.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: March 30, 2007

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Please contact:

Ms. Diane Ota
Curator of Music
Tel: 617-859-2285
E-mail: music@bpl.org

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