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Hi Heather- ours are kept in our digital repository Academic Commons. The architecture school now requires they all be digitally submitted. http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/ search by dept.- Architecture Cheers, Ted On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Barbara Ann Opar <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Heather- I am writing from Syracuse University and the School of > Architecture here. So while I am not working with MFA theses I am working > with similar materials. SU now has an institutional repository so our > administrator for SUrface as it is called and I have been working to build > up material in my area of responsibility- Architecture. Students > assistants here have taken the lead in scanning and helping to make this > all work. We have scanned faculty articles, SOA newsletters and so forth. > But our newest and largest initiative is to make thesis and thesis prep. > books online. For years Syracuse has been collecting undergraduate thesis > and thesis prep. books. At one point, we collected all of them in paper –as > many as were provided that is by the students and SOA. Then we changed the > policy and decided to collect only B+ and above work as the students > consult these heavily as models. So with the support of the now interim > dean we went about scanning these works for SUrface. SOA and the Library > agreed that this work is owned by the school so we have the right to make > it available. The project has been a lot of work, especially as the files > are often big and the old theses sometimes in disrepair. Last year, SOA > decided to require digital copies of the work. The School uses Media Beacon > but while students can post files to select classes they cannot routinely > access files. That meant that SUrface would be an asset for storing this > type of material—both as an archive as well as providing 24/7 access to > information. So I was provided desktop access to those files by SOA. > SUrface uses Bpress so we filled out the template and attached the files. > Files are very large so at times we have needed to go in and reduce the > size of the file or break the material down into parts. But students are > finding the material—including from other institutions. So in terms > permission, the sign off came from the department and not the actual > students. We had to digitize older theses, but new ones are being made > available to us. Next year, I hope to require that students submit smaller > files easy for posting. As well, we will ask them to provide keywords. I > hope I have answered some of your questions. But please do contact me if > this is information you can use. The categories you see were ones created > for this project. Here is the link to the material on SUrface:**** > > ** ** > > http://surface.syr.edu/architecture_etds/ **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Barbara Opar**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* ARLIS/NA List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Gendron, > Heather Hope > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:24 AM > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Subject:* [ARLIS-L] MFA digital theses**** > > ** ** > > Hi everyone, at UNC we are planning for the retrospective digitization of > our MFA visual art theses (going back to 1973) and are making plans for a > digital submission process for current and future MFA art theses. If you > have worked on these issues and have developed policies for access at your > own institution, would you get in touch with me sometime soon? We’ll be > working with our Scholarly Communications Officer on this, but I’m > interested in hearing what other institutions have done with their digital > MFA art theses.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks!**** > > ** ** > > Heather Gendron**** > > Art Librarian, Sloane Art Library**** > > Coordinator of Assessment, University Library > UNC Chapel Hill**** > > Phone: 919.962.1061**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining > ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative > matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to > [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy > Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **** > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining > ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative > matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to > [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy > Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~