The Library of Congress offers a Junior Fellows Program to support graduate research in its collections. These fellowships provide a two to three month stipend for research and require some work in cataloging library collections. In brief, LC collections cover all U.S. and non-U.S. subjects. For example, the Division of Motion Pictures, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound alone covers such areas as the history of cinema, television, radio, popular culture, music, and the performing arts. With these fellowships, the LC is looking to match researchers with collections that have not been fully catalogued, and researchers are expected to help the LC bring knowledge of these collections into the public domain.
Fellowships are available in the fall, spring and summer.
An essay about the project will appear in a forthcoming book on alternative media published by the British Film Institute. This fall I helped organize a major Paper Tiger exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute Gallery. This five week installation included two floors of video exhibits. One gallery was turned into a TV set. Andrea Adelman is now the managing editor of Random Lengths, a weekly newspaper in San Pedro.