<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Dear colleagues,<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Please post and distribute widely.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);white-space:pre-wrap">The Korean Collections Consortium of North America (KCCNA) is pleased to announce research travel grants for researchers and educators in Korean Studies. This grant program was created to assist Korean Studies students and scholars in their use of specialized library resources at the thirteen member universities of the <a href="https://www.lib.umich.edu/korean-collections-consortium-north-america/consortium-members-and-their-subject-responsibilities" target="_blank">KCCNA</a>. Funded by generous grants from the Korea Foundation for three years from 2018-2020, this annual program aims to promote scholarship in Korean Studies through the Consortium member libraries’ resources, </span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);white-space:pre-wrap">This program is open to anyone in the world <u>except for those in Korea </u>who already have access to extensive Korean resources.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Proposal deadline is <b><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">March 15, 2018</span></span></b>.  For program and application detail, go to: <span style="color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__goo.gl_HUhPnY&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=EstYiHyinaIePrETacUb2g&m=t-_xECDvGH0OcI5hR423IkAnrazlFJuViQHTcL2P-90&s=l0efhUJ9QwgLa0RGIw7Rn5OHJ2UedJJSRwXCsUgpqA4&e=" target="_blank">goo.gl/HUhPnY</a> </span><span style="color:black"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:black"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:black">For inquiries, please contact Joy Kim (USC), Chair of the KCCNA-Research Grant Committee at </span><a href="mailto:kccnatravelgrant@umich.edu" target="_blank" style="white-space:pre-wrap">kccnatravelgrant@umich.edu</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px"><span style="color:black"><font size="1" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best regards,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">On behalf of KCCNA, Jude Yang (Univ. of Hawaii, Chair), Yunah Sung (Univ. of Michigan, Vice Chair)</span></font></p></div>