Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship supports children’s librarians studying historical children’s literature at the Baldwin Library to inform youth services and share research through public programs.
Applications for the 2027 Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship are now closed; all materials were due October 15, 2026. Applications for the 2028 fellowship will open in late summer/early fall 2027.
Billie M. Levy Fellowship supports travel for scholars, researchers, and artists to use UConn’s Northeast Children’s Literature Collection to explore children’s literature as art and collaborative book creation.
Lapides Fellowship in Pre-1900 Juvenile Literature and Ephemera supports scholars’ research on American materials made for or by youth through 1865 to examine juvenile literature and ephemera.
The BSA-St. Louis Mercantile Library Fellowship funds research on North American bibliography, book history, and the study of physical texts through the Bibliographical Society of America.
Anne Jacobson Schutte Fellowship in Early Modern Studies supports early-career scholars’ collection-based research on 1300–1700 to advance scholarship, with priority for women’s studies, spirituality, or Venice.
The ATBL Research Fellowship Program, funded by the Bibliographical Society of America, supports on-site scholarly research with the British Library’s physical collections for projects requiring in-person access.