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City of New Haven

Supervising Librarian

New Haven, CT · On-site

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PRIMARY FUNCTIONS This is professional library work in the supervision of a library service area or in the development and supervision of a specialized subject area such as literacy, computers ...

State of Connecticut

Library Technician

Hartford, CT · On-site

$71K - $90K/yr

Location: 231 Capitol Avenue in Hartford, CT. THE ROLE The Library Technician will process incoming Connecticut state and municipal documents for the CSL collection. This position also distributes ...

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2026 Lewis Walpole Library Summer Fellowship for Yale Graduate Students

2026 Lewis Walpole Library Summer Fellowship for Yale Graduate Students

Yale University

Farmington, CT • On-site

Temporary

Posted 15 days ago

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8.7

Company rating: 8.7 out of 10

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Description
This Fellowship affords Yale Graduate Students the opportunity to spend two, four, or eight weeks between June 1 and August 31 in residence at the library in Farmington, Connecticut, to delve into its rich collections of eighteenth-century materials (mainly British), including important holdings of prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, and paintings.
Fellowship awards include:
- a supplement to your graduate student stipend, depending upon the duration of your Fellowship:
8 weeks: $4000
4 weeks: $2000
2 weeks: $1000
- a bedroom at the Timothy Root House, an eighteenth-century residence on the Library's campus, adjacent to the main Library building. There is a shared self-catering kitchen and lounge, and each bedroom has a desk and an attached full bathroom.
About the Lewis Walpole Library: The Lewis Walpole Library (LWL), a department of the Yale University Library, is a research center for eighteenth-century studies and an essential resource for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. The library, a gift to Yale University from Walpole collector and editor Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, and his wife, Annie Burr Lewis, is located on a fourteen-acre campus in historic Farmington, Connecticut.
Qualifications
Students applying for a fellowship should be at an advanced stage in their research and propose a fully conceptualized project related to their degree program and on a topic relevant to the Lewis Walpole Library's holdings. Students are required to be in residence in Farmington, Connecticut, and focus their research on the library collections.
Application Instructions
Applicants are required to submit the following materials through Interfolio:
- A résumé
- A statement expressing preferred duration and dates of residency
- A brief research proposal (not to exceed three double-spaced pages), explaining the relevance of the Lewis Walpole Library's collections to the applicant's research objectives
- A list of relevant Lewis Walpole Library sources that the applicant expects to consult
- An approved dissertation prospectus or equivalent statement outlining the scope of the proposed project as it relates to the applicant's degree program
- The applicant must also request, via the online application portal, a confidential letter of recommendation from the applicant's dissertation advisor (for PhD students) or primary advisor (for other graduate students)

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