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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Dear Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The <a href="https://www.lindahall.org/">
Linda Hall Library</a> is now accepting applications for its 2021-22 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related STS fields with financial support
to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Linda Hall Library holds over half a million monograph volumes and more than 48,000 journal titles documenting the history of science and technology from the 15th century to the
present. Its collections are exceptionally strong in the engineering disciplines, chemistry, and physics. The Library also boasts extensive resources related to natural history, astronomy, environmental and earth sciences, aeronautics, life sciences, infrastructure
studies, mathematics, and the history of the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Due to the public health risks associated with the coronavirus pandemic, all Linda Hall Library fellowships during the 2021-22 academic year will be virtual.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
Instead of traveling to Kansas City, virtual fellows will conduct research from off-site using digitized resources in the Library’s collections. These virtual fellowships reflect the Library’s ongoing efforts to expand the accessibility of its holdings while
protecting the safety of both patrons and staff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Although they will be working off-site, virtual fellows will be active members of the Linda Hall Library’s social and intellectual community. Each fellow will receive:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">A virtual introduction to the Library’s collections</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Personalized research assistance from members of the Library’s reference staff</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The ability to request complimentary scans of Linda Hall Library resources in accordance with the Library’s digitization policies</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Opportunities to participate in the Library’s in-house works-in-progress seminar alongside scholars from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the University of Kansas, and the Clendening
History of Medicine Library, as well as working groups organized by the <a href="https://lhl.z2systems.com/track/servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=lhl&emailId=f218d4a8acd9ddd1916191fd5d9e4ba8fm4881621f21&&linkId=31311&targetUrl=https://www.chstm.org/">
Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Chances to share their projects with new audiences in Kansas City and around the world through the Library’s public lecture series, newsletter, or other online platforms</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Invitations to Library programs and social events including coffee breaks, brown bag lunches, happy hours, etc.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Please share this information with graduate students, colleagues, or anyone else who might be interested in the Linda Hall Library’s fellowship program. All application materials are
due no later than <b>January 15, 2021</b>. For further information, visit <a href="https://lhl.z2systems.com/track/servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=lhl&emailId=f218d4a8acd9ddd1916191fd5d9e4ba8fm4881621f21&&linkId=31313&targetUrl=https://www.lindahall.org/fellowships/">
https://www.lindahall.org/fellowships/</a> or e-mail <a href="mailto:fellowships@lindahall.org">
fellowships@lindahall.org</a>.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Thank you!</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
<br>
-Ben Gross<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
Benjamin Gross, PhD<br>
Vice President for Research and Scholarship<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">5109 Cherry Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kansas City, Missouri 64110<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">816.926.8718<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:grossb@lindahall.org">grossb@lindahall.org</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.lindahall.org/">www.lindahall.org</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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