2014-15 Stanford East Asia Library Travel Grants

The East Asia Library at Stanford University is now accepting applications for its 2014-15 library travel grants.  Please help spread the words and refer to the following for more information.

2014-15 Stanford East Asia Library Travel Grants

The East Asia Library at Stanford University is now accepting applications for its 2014-15 library travel grants. The purpose of these grants is to assist scholars from outside the greater San Francisco Bay Area in accessing the Stanford East Asia Library collections for research. Funded by the Department of Education Title VI program, the Stanford Center for East Asian Studies will award up to six grants on a competitive basis to help defray the cost of travel and lodging for scholars of East Asia at other institutions who wish to utilize the collections at the Stanford East Asia Library. The grants will be paid as reimbursements of expenses in compliance with University travel guidelines. The Stanford East Asia Library collection includes roughly 770,000 volumes in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and western languages. Further information about the library collections is available at https://library.stanford.edu/eal.

Eligibility

Scholars (faculty and advanced graduate students) of East Asia at other U.S. institutions who wish to utilize the collection at the Stanford East Asia Library between January 19, 2015 and August 14, 2015. Priority consideration will be given to those at institutions where there are no or few library resources in the East Asian languages, and no major East Asian library collections are available nearby. Please note that award travel must be completed before August 14, 2015. Applicants do not have to be US citizens, but travel should originate and terminate in the US; no international tickets are allowed.

Amount

Up to $750 per trip.

Deadline

Applications are due by January 9, 2015
For questions regarding eligibility or travel restrictions, please contact John Groschwitz, Associate Director, Center for East Asian Studies.
For questions regarding Stanford East Asia Library collections, Please contact relevant area librarian.

Application

Please apply online at:   https://library.stanford.edu/eal/2014-15-stanford-east-asia-library-travel-grants

and provide the following documentation in one PDF file less than 1MB in size:

• A brief statement (not to exceed 250 words) describing your research, the need to use the East
  Asia Library collections, and proposed travel dates
• A list of resources you would like to access (applicants must check availability of these
  resources in the Library's online catalog or by contacting the relevant area librarian prior to
  submitting applications)
• An estimated budget
• A current curriculum vita

Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant

The Harvard-Yenching Library is pleased to announce its Travel Grant Program for the 2014-2015 academic year.  The purpose of the grant is to assist scholars from outside the Boston metropolitan area in their use of the Harvard-Yenching Library’s collections for research.  There will be nineteen grants of $500 each (seven in Chinese studies, seven in Japanese studies, and five in Korean studies) to be awarded on a merit basis to faculty members and to graduate students engaged in dissertation research.  Priority consideration will be given to those at institutions where there are no or few library resources in the East Asian languages, and no major East Asian library collections are available nearby.  Each grantee also will be provided with the privilege of free photocopying of up to 100 sheets.  Please note that the awards must be used by August 31, 2015. 

Applications for the travel grant, including a letter, a brief description of the research topic, and an estimated budget, should be addressed to the following:

                                                          James K. M. Cheng

                                                          Librarian

                                                          Harvard-Yenching Library

                                                          Harvard University

                                                          2 Divinity Avenue

                                                          Cambridge, MA 02138

                                                          Fax:       (617) 496-6008

                                                          E-mail:  jkcheng@fas.harvard.edu 

The deadline for receiving applications is December 22, 2014.