Anne and Bill Newton Graduate Fellowship in the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Robert W. Woodruff Library
With funding from a generous gift made by alumni of Emory’s Library School, the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book
Library, located in the Robert W. Woodruff Library, will award one nine-month Graduate Student Fellowship for 20132014. A MARBL fellow will work 16 hours per week, collaborating with archivists, curators, and researchers. A fellow
gains experience in several areas of archival work, including but not limited to acquisition, appraisal, arrangement and
description, provision of digital access, exhibition planning, and reference and instruction.
In April 2014, the Newton MARBL Fellow will join other Woodruff Library Fellows in making a presentation about his or
her fellowship experience.
The Newton MARBL Fellowship is a 9-month placement (September 2013-May 31, 2014) with a stipend of $16,500.
Applicants must meet the eligibility requirements listed below. Applications will be evaluated on the basis of the ways in
which MARBL’s needs and the applicant’s research areas and interests would produce mutually beneficial
collaborations. The goal of the fellowship is to enhance the applicant’s skills in using primary sources in research and
teaching and in understanding emerging issues in archival work such as digital archives, metadata applications,
preservation, digital scholarship, and scholarly communication.
Eligibility:
To be considered for the fellowship, applicants must
 be full time students in a doctoral program, in good standing;
 be in candidacy at the time of application;
 be in their 7th or lower year of graduate study at the time of application; and
 may not previously have held an Emory completion fellowship. Unless otherwise noted, the fellowships listed on
http://www.gs.emory.edu/resources/financial.php?entity_id=18#eligibility are all considered completion
fellowships (exceptions include ORDER fellowships, PRISM fellowships, SIRE for the natural sciences, and some
OUCP fellowships).
Application Material:
The application must include:
1. A Graduate School Fellowships Application Cover Sheet; see link on the Graduate School website at
a. http://www.gs.emory.edu/uploads/Fellowships/FellCoverSheet%20Fill.pdf
2. Application skills sheet (see below).
3. Letter of application to include:
a) how the fellowship will enhance the applicant’s skills in research and teaching, and
b) a brief description of the dissertation research, including progress thus far;
4. Curriculum vita of no more than two pages;
5. Letter of recommendation from an Emory faculty member, preferably the dissertation director, who is familiar
with the applicant and the dissertation. The letter should address the applicant’s schedule for completing the
dissertation, and assess the likelihood that the applicant would complete by the end of the fellowship year. This
letter should be emailed to eul-libjobs@emory.edu using file name format as: Newton Fellowship
Recommendation [last name of applicant].
Submit the application materials described in 1-4 above in the order listed in a single pdf using file name format as:
Woodruff Fellowship [and your last name] (e.g., Newton Fellowship Nodine) via email to eul-libjobs@emory.edu no later
than 4 p.m., Friday, February 22, 2013. For questions, contact Ms. Linda J. Nodine, library senior HR associate at
linda.nodine@emory.edu.
Ann & Bill Newton Graduate Fellowship
Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Application Skills Summary
Name:
Campus Mailing Address:
Department:
Home Mailing Address:
Home phone:
Work phone:
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Instructions: Please complete the following 4 sections and indicate your language, teaching, computing and research
skills.
I.
Language Skills
Please list foreign languages you have studies and rate your proficiency level for each.
Reading
Writing
Speaking
German
French
Other:
Other:
Other:
II.
Teaching
What course(s) did you teach as a part of the TATTO program?
Have you taught other courses at Emory or other universities
If yes, what course(s) did you teach, and where?
__yes
__no
Have you worked with undergraduates involved in research? Please explain the context of this involvement.
III.
Computing Skills
Please rate your proficiency in the following areas/applications.
Application
Never Used
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Word Processing (Word)
Other:
Spreadsheet (Excel)
Other:
Database (Access)
Other:
Statistical Packages*
SPSS
SAS
Stata
Other:
GIS experience
Web Design
Drupal
HTML
XML
Other:
Other relevant applications
Endnote
Other:
*For “Statistical Packages” that you have used, briefly describe your use for each one on an attached sheet.
IV.
Research Skills
Please rate your expertise with each of the following:
Never used
Experimental research design
Focus group research
In-depth interviewing
Oral history
Survey design/analysis
Statistical data (e.g. Census data)
Emory Library collections (indicate
those you have used):
Archival collections (print)
Beck Center Collections
Quantitative electronic datasets
(e.g., ICPSR)
Digital Archives
eJournals
Government Documents (non-US)
Government Documents (US)
Online databases (e.g., MLA,
GALILEO, Information Gateway)
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Rare Books & Manuscripts
Other (specify):
For research methodologies in which you have expertise, briefly describe your experience with each one on an attached sheet.