Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the Library’s special collections. The award is $1,000 per week (up to four weeks) plus transportation costs.

Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, including the Seeley G. Mudd Library; as well as rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection). Special grants are awarded in several areas: the Elmer Adler Fund supports all aspect of research in the graphic arts; the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies supports a limited number of library fellowships in Hellenic Studies; and the Cotsen Children’s Library supports research in its collection on aspects of children’s literature. The Maxwell Fund supports research on materials dealing with Portuguese-speaking cultures. The Sid Lapidus '59 Research Fund for Studies of the Age of Revolution and the Enlightenment in the Atlantic World supports relevant special collections research.
For more information, or to apply, please go to http://rbsc.princeton.edu/friends-princeton-university-library-research-grants. The deadline to apply is January 31, 2017. Grants are tenable from May 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018.