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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The AGS Library is one of the premier collections of its kind in North America, containing over 1.3 million items including maps, atlases, books, periodicals, and photographs.
The cartographic collection dates to 1452, with particular strengths in documents related to American empire. The collections are vast and varied, and include, for example, the portfolio of maps used by the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference
of 1919; an original copy of the 1861 Daedong yeojido by Korean cartographer Kim Jeong-ho; and extensive collections from Latin America, Asia and Polar regions. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:blue"><a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/photos/" target="_blank" title="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/photos/
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" id="LPlnk200496">Photographic
collections</a> <a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/photos/" target="_blank" id="LPlnk638196"></a><a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/photos/" target="_blank"></a></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">reflect the global travels and
studies of individual geographers and members of the Society throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, with particularly notable collections in polar exploration and Western U.S. expansion. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives&cc=wiarchives&type=simple&rgn=Entire+Finding+Aid&q1=AGSL+Manuscript+Collection+&location=wimiags&Submit=Search" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:blue">Archives</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> include
various collections related to the history of American geography. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/books/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:blue">Books and periodicals</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> include
an extensive collection of early travel literature and guidebooks, as well as a rich historical collection of globally produced geographical periodicals. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Currently, there are two types of eligibility: </span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Scholars at all levels, including faculty and Ph.D. dissertators, at U.S. federally defined Minority-Serving Institutions are eligible for the AGSL Fellowships for MSI Scholars. ($600/week,
up to 4 weeks) </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Scholars at all levels, including faculty and Ph.D. dissertators, at any university are eligible for John and Helen Best Fellowships. ($400/week, up to 4 weeks)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Complete fellowship descriptions can be found on the </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/fellowshipdescriptions/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:blue">AGSL
website</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. Past fellowship recipients have included scholars of history, geography, cartography, climate, environmental studies, and literature. Lists of previous AGSL fellowship recipients and their
projects may be found </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/ags-library-mccoll-fellows/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:blue">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> and </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/ags-library-best-fellows/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:blue">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. Applications
for the 2016 fellowships are due on October 31, 2015.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please contact Curator Marcy Bidney (</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:bidney@uwm.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:blue">bidney@uwm.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">)
with questions about the fellowships or our collections. Photos of the AGS Library can be viewed on our
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:blue">Flickr page</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please circulate this announcement widely</span></p>
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