Good lord George, of course naive questions are allowed. We wouldn't
get very far if they weren't.
You might try searching the Library Literature index (produced by
Wilson) which indexes 300 library and information science periodicals
in the United States and elsewhere. This database includes theses and
if you limit your search to include "theses" in the subject field,
you will gather only theses.
You should also take a look at the ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of
North America) website at www.arlisna.org. Under the "resources" tab
you will find the Occasional Paper series of the Society as well as
the Online Publications. These will give you some idea of the
scholarly and practical topics of interest to librarians in North
America. Past conference proceedings from the Society can be found
under the "News and Events" tab and will also give you a picture of
some of the most timely as well as long standing topics.
Best wishes,
Kraig
Kraig Binkowski
Head Librarian
Reference Library and Photograph Archive
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street
P.O. Box 208280
New Haven, CT 06520-8280
Phone: 203.432.2846
Fax: 203.432.9613
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At 09:11 PM 8/24/2006, you wrote:
>Hello: I read that this is a moderated list now, so perhaps if this isn't
>the right forum to this question it will get kicked back anyway, so I
>thought I'd try.
>
>I am new to this field -- so new that I don't enter my Master's program at
>the University of Oklahoma until 2007 (long story, much ado, delaying
>enrollment for a year).
>
>To condense an exchange of e-mails basically my faculty advisor-to-be
>advised me that if I intend to pursue the thesis option I should familiarize
>myself with literature and do some reading to find out more about what a
>thesis might consist of.
>
>This was spawned from a question I had about whether or not the thesis
>option is best for me since I have my sights set on a fine arts library at a
>university.
>
>To make a long story short, I have been lurking here and will continue to do
>so to make sure this is what I really intend to do with a library degree.
>However, I have no idea what a library thesis would even be about, much less
>one specifically related to art libraries. I will try and make a trip
>across the state to start looking at theses written by past master's
>students at OU, but is there anywhere -- especially online, but even not
>online -- where one could see a list of thesis titles and/or abstracts to
>get an idea of what art librarians write theses and/or journal articles about?
>
>I'm sure I will have many more questions as I go along. Again, if there is
>a better forum than this listserv for more naive questions like this please
>feel free to let me know.
>
>Thank you!
>
>George Gottschalk
>
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