Library of Congress Asian Division: Moeson Fellowship Program Accepting Applications

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Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship Program Announced

The Asian Division Friends Society announces the Florence Tan Moeson Research

Fellowship for 2009. This fellowship is made possible by a generous donation of

Florence Tan Moeson, for 43 years a Chinese Team cataloger in the Regional and

Cooperative Cataloging Division before she retired in 2001.

The purpose of the fellowship is to give individuals the opportunity to use the

Asian collections in the Library of Congress, which are among the most

significant outside of Asia and consist of nearly 2.8 million books,

periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts and microforms in the languages of East,

South and Southeast Asia.

Researchers wishing to submit applications should go to this Web site:

www.lcasianfriends.org/fellowship. The deadline for applying for the 2009

fellowship program is September 30, 2008.

The Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship consists of $14,000 each year for 10

years in support of grants for research using the Asian Division’s Reading

Room and the Library’s extensive Asian collections. The grants will be awarded

upon demonstration of need. Grants are intended to pay for travel to and from

Washington, overnight accommodations and photocopying fees. Graduate and

upper-level undergraduate students, independent scholars, community college

teachers, researchers without regular teaching appointments, and librarians with

a demonstrated need for fellowship support are especially encouraged to apply.

The Library’s Asian collection began in 1869 with a gift of 10 works in 933

volumes from the emperor of China to the United States. Spanning a diversity of

subjects from China, Japan, Korea, the South Asian subcontinent and Southeast

Asia, the Library’s Asian collections have become one of the most accessible

and comprehensive sources of Asian language materials in the world.

For further information about the collection, visit the Asian Division’s Web

site at www.loc.gov/rr/asian/.

 

Thank you.

 

Anchi Hoh, Ph.D.

Co-Chair, Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship Program Committee

Asian Division

Library of Congress

(202) 707-5673

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I might add that I can think of some specific proposals much on my mind, notably

cataloging Sanskrit, Urdu, and other South Asian language manuscripts.

 

Allen

 

 

Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D.

Senior Reference Librarian

Team Coordinator

South Asia Team, Asian Division

Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150

101 Independence Ave., S.E.

Washington, DC 20540-4810

tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr

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Congress.