The Yale University Arts Library welcomes applications for the 2004 Kress Fellowship in Art Librarianship. The Kress Fellowship is intended for a recent graduate from library school who wishes to pursue a career in art librarianship or visual resources curatorship. Individuals working in a related discipline (e.g., art history, museum studies, etc.) and considering the professional transition to art librarianship or actively engaged with issues central to the profession are also encouraged to apply. This fellowship is made possible through the generosity of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Through this fellowship, the Kress Foundation seeks to achieve in the field of art librarianship what it has accomplished for art history and art conservation: ensuring the growth of the discipline by promoting the advancement of new professionals.

The Arts Library at Yale serves a distinguished array of academic and museum programs, architects, artists and scholars. Kress Fellows have the opportunity to interact routinely with faculty, staff and students in distinguished Schools of Architecture, Art, and Drama; a nationally ranked department of the History of Art; and two outstanding university art museums, the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. They also have occasion to collaborate with colleagues from throughout the Yale University Library, including the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the library and rare books department of the Center for British Art. The rich professional and scholarly resources of New York City and Boston’s art libraries and museums are close at hand, providing still further opportunities for professional growth and professional contact with colleagues.

Kress Fellows are introduced to a broad spectrum of professional activities. They have the opportunity to provide reference and information services, offer bibliographical instruction to undergraduates and graduate students in the classroom and the library, assist users with an increasing range of electronic resources, perform collection development activities, interact with a variety of special collections and learn about visual resources curatorship. During their tenure at Yale Kress Fellows are expected to pursue a mutually agreed-upon project resulting in a serviceable product such as a publishable paper or a new library service.