$$$: Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and Perkins Library (Duke U)

Travel Grants
Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and Perkins Library
Duke University

The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at the Duke University is offering
travel grants to scholars outside the Winston-Salem/Greensboro/Durham/
Chapel Hill/Raleigh area who wish to use the University's East Asian collection
for research during the 2006-2007 academic year. There will be six grants of
$500 each to cover travel, hotel and photocopy expenses. Applicants who
document how their research will benefit from access to the Duke Collection
and whose research will take advantage of its strengths will be given priority
consideration; secondary consideration will be given to applicants in the Southeast or
at institutions where there are no or few library resources in the East
Asian languages. The awards must be used before August 1, 2007.

The East Asian Collection at the Perkins Library consists of about
83,000 volumes in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The collection is
especially strong in Japanese Studies, especially art history,
economics, the environment, history, literature, labor, political
science, popular culture, social movements and women's studies. Its
collections on China are more narrowly focused; it has strengths in
Chinese popular culture, film and TV studies, and statistical yearbooks.
For further information about the collection, please visit the web site
at http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/ or contact Kristina Troost, Head,
East Asian Collection and the Department of International & Area
studies, at kktroost@duke.edu or (919) 660-5844. For Chinese materials,
please contact Xi Chen, Interim Chinese Studies librarian, at
x.chen@duke.edu.

Applications for the grant, including a brief description of the
research topic and the type/subject of materials you are seeking, a
curriculum vitae, and an estimated budget, as well as any questions,
should be directed to the address below. Please be sure to identify the
sources in the Duke Collection you are planning to use.


Kristina Troost
Head, International and Area Studies
Librarian for Japan and Korea
Perkins Library
Box 90195
Duke University
Durham NC 27708-0195
919-660-5844
Fax: 919-668-3134
http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/eac.html