Dear SIGCIS members, Please note the following announcement for the 2012-2013 CBI Arthur L. Norberg Travel Fund (travel assistance competition to help recipients with travel costs to visit CBI to conduct research using CBI collections). Applications are due in a little more than a month (postmark deadline January 15, 2012). If you have any questions, please contact me. Thanks, Jeff Yost *Arthur L. Norberg Travel Fund (CBI). 2012-2013* The Arthur L. Norberg Travel Fund provides short-term grants-in-aid to help scholars with travel expenses to use archival collections at the Charles Babbage Institute. Each year we plan to award two $750 grants. The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) is an internationally recognized research center and archives focused on the history of information technology. CBI conducts major research projects; publishes books and articles; and collects, processes, and provides open public access to the most diverse and extensive collection of archival materials on computing, software, and networking in the world. CBI collections include the records of corporations, technical and trade associations, personal papers, industry publications, oral histories, photographs, film/video, and an extensive reference library. The Norberg Travel Fund is named for CBI’s founding director, Arthur L. Norberg. To Apply: Applicants should send a 2-page CV as well as a 500-word project description that describes the overall research project, identifies the importance of specific CBI collections, and discusses the projected outcome (journal article, book chapter, museum exhibit, etc.). Applicants are strongly encouraged to examine the extensive on-line finding guides to CBI’s 200-plus archival collections at www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/archmss.html. Applicants should estimate how many days they plan to use CBI collections during their visit (travel should generally be in the calendar year of the award). To be eligible, scholars will reside outside the Twin Cities metropolitan region. Notification of awards will be made within four weeks, and travel can commence directly thereafter. Questions pertaining to collection content and access can be directed to Susan Hoffman, CBI Archivist, at s-hoff@umn.edu. Please direct questions about the Arthur Norberg Travel Fund to Jeffrey Yost, CBI Associate Director, yostx003@umn.edu, 612.624.5050. For additional information, see www.cbi.umn.edu. Materials must be submitted by email to cbi@umn.edu or postmarked no later than January 15, 2012. Charles Babbage Institute: Norberg Travel Fund 211 Andersen Library University of Minnesota 222 - 21st Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 -- Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute Faculty, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax