Dear George,
The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill offers a dual-degree in Library Science and Art
History. The school offers access to Master's Papers online at:
http://ils.unc.edu/mpi/. A simple search using the terms "art
library" or "museum library" should bring you some relevant
hits.
I imagine other schools of Information and Library Science offer a similar
service.
All the best,
Kirston Johnson
Quoting "George E. Gottschalk" <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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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