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Higher Education Act Grant

TITLE II–B FELLOWSHIPS

During the next academic year, more than five hundred federally-supported fellowships will provide graduate training of personnel needed by the nation’s libraries. The office announced awards totaling $3,773,250 to thirty-eight institutions of higher education that will select and train the Fellows in library and information sciences. This is four times as much as was made available in 1966, the first year of the program. The fellowships are authorized under Title II–B of the Higher Education Act of 1965.

Because of the critical shortage of fullyqualified library school faculty members, the first priority is for fellowships designed to produce additional instructors for schools of library and information sciences.

According to the division of library services and educational facilities of the Office of Education, 327 of the 501 fellowships will be at the master’s level, 58 at the postmaster’s and 116 doctoral. Fellowships for students seeking a master’s degree are $2,200 each and at the post-master’s and doctoral levels, $5,000 each. Post-master’s and doctoral fellowships are renewable. If summer study is required an additional stipend of $75 per week, not to exceed a total of $450, is provided for Fellows seeking a master’s degree. At the post-master’s and doctoral fellowship’s levels, the summer stipend is at the rate of $170 per week, not to exceed a total of $1,020. In addition, $600 is granted for each dependent for the academic year and $120 for the summer, plus travel expenses to and from the institution for the Fellow only.

The institution receives $2,500 for each Fellow to help defray the cost of instruction during the academic year and $500 for the summer.

Students seeking fellowships should apply directly to the participating institutions (as listed below), which will have sole responsibility for selecting recipients.

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