[Air-L] Charles Babbage Institute travel funding

Joly MacFie joly at punkcast.com
Thu Oct 22 11:36:45 PDT 2015


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From: Jeffrey Yost <yostx003 at umn.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 2:09 PM


Below is an announcement about CBI's Arthur L. Norberg Travel Fund for
2016.  Please pass along to any researchers who might be interested.  If
you have any questions, please contact me.

Best,  Jeff
Arthur L. Norberg Travel Fund

The Arthur L. Norberg Travel Fund provides short-term grants-in-aid to help
scholars with travel expenses to use archival collections at the Charles
Babbage Institute.  In January of each year we plan to award up to five
$1,000 travel grants.

The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) is an internationally recognized
research center and archives focused on the history of information
technology.  CBI conducts major research projects; publishes books and
articles; and collects, processes, and provides open public access to the
most diverse and extensive collection of archival materials on computing,
software, and networking in the world.  CBI collections include the records
of corporations, technical and trade associations, personal papers,
industry publications, oral histories, photographs, film/video, and an
extensive reference library.  The Norberg Travel Fund is named for CBI’s
founding director, Arthur L. Norberg, and is funded by generous gifts from
his friends and colleagues.
To Apply:

Applicants should send a 2-page CV as well as a 500-word project
description that describes the overall research project, identifies the
importance of specific CBI collections, and discusses the projected outcome
(journal article, book chapter, museum exhibit, etc.).  Applicants are
strongly encouraged to examine the extensive on-line finding guides to
CBI’s 200-plus archival collections at
www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/archmss.html.  Applicants should estimate how
many days they plan to use CBI collections during their visit (travel
should generally be in the calendar year of the award).  To be eligible,
scholars will reside outside the Twin Cities metropolitan region.
Recipients will be asked to do a short write-up about their research visit
for the CBI Newsletter.

Notification of awards will be made by mid-February, and travel can
commence directly thereafter.  Questions pertaining to collection content
and access can be directed to R. Arvid Nelsen, CBI Archivist, at
nels0307 at umn.edu.  Please direct questions about the Arthur Norberg Travel
Fund to Jeffrey Yost, CBI Associate Director, yostx003 at umn.edu, 612.624.5050.
For additional information, see www.cbi.umn.edu
<http://www.cbi.umn.edu/index.html>.
Materials must be received by CBI no later than January 15, 2016.

Application materials should be sent to cbi at umn.edu. A confirmation email
will be sent once your application has been received.

Alternatively, applications may be mailed to:

Charles Babbage Institute: Norberg Travel Grant
211 Andersen Library
University of Minnesota
222 - 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute
Faculty, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

222  21st Avenue South
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612 624 5050 Phone
612 625 8054 Fax

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