The Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries
Director: Paul B. Kantor  Director of Graduate Program: Nicholas Belkin

GRADUATE AWARDS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES

To enter an online application use: http://www.diglib.rutgers.edu/RDLDL/ga_form.html

The Rutgers University Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries (RDLDL) is pleased to announce the availability of competitive graduate awards for interdisciplinary doctoral studies in digital libaries, including contributing technologies and relevant basic research.

Digital libraries constitute an exciting new domain for research, and for society at large, and the RDLDL is taking a leading role in establishing an explicitly interdisciplinary approach to the variety of problems in this burgeoning area. Current faculty members of the RDLDL come from the disciplines of cognitive science, computer science, library and information science and psychology, and students in the program are expected to participate in research and to take courses in two or more of the disciplines represented in the RDLDL.

Successful candidates will participate in digital library-oriented research projects with several faculty members of the RDLDL, as well as being enrolled in a Ph.D. program in one of the disciplines associated with the RDLDL. They will also take part in an interdisciplinary seminar involving the faculty and all of the other graduate students associated with the RDLDL.

The RDLDL Awards offer tuition remission and an annual stipend of $13,000, and the opportunity to achieve an interdisciplinary education for research in the interdisciplinary field of digital libaries. These awards are tenable for one year in the first instance, beginning in either January or September 1999, and are renewable.

For further information, including the specific interests of the RDLDL faculty, and application materials, please see the RDLDL WWW site, http://diglib.rutgers.edu/RDLDL, or contact any one of the members of the RDLDL Steering Committee, listed below. Steering Committee of the Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries

• Nicholas J. Belkin, Library and Information Science, New Brunswick (nick@belkin.rutgers.edu)
• Benjamin Martin Bly, Psychology, Newark (ben@psychology.rutgers.edu)
• Sven Dickinson, Computer Science, New Brunswick (sven@ruccs.rutgers.edu)
• Stephen José Hanson, Psychology, Newark (jose@tractatus.rutgers.edu)
• Haym Hirsh, Computer Science, New Brunswick (hirsh@cs.rutgers.edu)
• Paul Kantor, Library and Information Science, New Brunswick (kantor@scils.rutgers.edu)
• Zenon Pylyshyn, Cognitive Science, New Brunswick (zenon@ruccs.rutgers.edu)