I am working for the National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Virginia.  We 
have inaugurated a visiting fellows program to attract researchers 
(including museum curators and professionals) to use our collections, which 
are particularly strong in the areas of horse and field sports and sporting 
art.  Our deadline for the first round of applications is September 30th of 
this year.  I am assisting the Library in setting up and publicizing the 
fellowship and in processing applications.

I wanted to get advice from people at other museums and libraries that have 
fellowship programs on ways to go about selecting fellows from the pool of 
applicants.  Currently our selection committee is composed of myself and two 
other staff members, a former library director, and two members of our Board 
of Trustees.  But I'm wondering if it would be wise to also bring in one or 
two "outsiders" not associated with the Library to be on the selection 
committee.

If your institution has a fellowship program, may I ask how do you handle 
selecting fellows from a pool of applicants? Do you bring in outside people 
to help make the selection?  If so, how do you select these people, and do 
they participate in the selection via email and phone or do they actually 
have to travel to your institution for the selection meeting?

- Elizabeth Tobey, Fellowship Coordinator and John H. Daniels Fellow
National Sporting Library
P.O. Box 1335
Middleburg, VA 20118
540-687-6542 x 25
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http://www.nsl.org

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