Elmar W. Seibel Scholarship

DESCRIPTION: The Elmar Seibel Scholarship was established in the summer of 2001 to honor ARLIS/NE Life Member Elmar Seibel, a respected book dealer, bibliographer, curator, and collector, and an esteemed friend to art libraries and art librarians regionally, nationally, and internationally. Elmar Seibel is founder and president of Ars Libri Ltd., in Boston, a company that has since 1976 served as a resource for scholars, librarians, collectors, and artists.

An award of $500.00 may be granted to an aspiring art information professional currently enrolled or accepted into a fully accredited New England school of library and/or information science. Awards may be granted to more than one applicant, if funds permit.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this award is to support and encourage future art librarians by helping to defray student expenses (tuition, housing, books, etc.)

REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate degree program in Library and Information Science at Simmons College, the University of Rhode Island, or Southern Connecticut State University and must be working toward a career in an art library or in a related setting.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE & DEADLINE: Applicants should send a letter describing themselves and their interest in art librarianship, with proof of enrollment in or a letter of acceptance from one of the New England institutions listed above, to the Award Committee. The deadline for applications for the 2008 Elmar Seibel Scholarship is December 15, 2007. Winners will be notified in January 2008.

Please send applications via mail or email to:

Darin Murphy

Fine Arts Library, Harvard College

32 Quincy Street

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

murphy@fas.harvard.edu

(if you choose to send the application via email, please put ARLIS/NE in the subject heading)