NEW! Online Architecture Degree Project Research Guide

Check out the Architecture Degree Project Research Guide for help in starting your research. Follow up by asking an art librarian for database recommendations and research tips~

New Book on Research in the Arts

Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts
The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of this subject over the last decade.

The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts addresses a wide variety of concepts and issues, including:

* the diversity of views on what constitutes arts-based research and scholarship, what it should be, and its potential contribution

* the trans-national communication difficulties arising from terminological and ontological differences in arts-based research

* traditional and non-traditional concepts of knowledge, their relationship to professional practice, and their outcomes and audiences

* a consideration of the role of written, spoken and artefact-based languages in the formation and communication of understandings.

VDM & RISD Theses revisited

RISD Library is receiving inquiries from recent RISD graduate alumni concerning the publisher VDM. For more information, see the earlier blog entry about VDM posted in April 2010.

RISD Writing Center's Graduate Thesis Writing Workshops during Wintersession

Four thesis writing workshops will take place in Library classroom 228.
See the Writing Center's flyer for workshop dates, times, and topics.

RISD Master' Theses Guidelines 2009

For answers to questions regarding the title page and required signatures for the master's thesis, please refer to the 2009 Guidelines for RISD Masters' Theses.

All graduate theses are to be turned in to the Graduate Studies Office. For additional information, please contact Amy Patenaude in the Graduate Studies Office, t: 401-454-6131 or your department's Graduate Coordinator.

Thesis bindery options

If you would prefer using a local commercial bindery to bind your thesis, the following binderies are available:

1. Hope Bindery & Box Company, 250 Esten Ave., Pawtucket, R.I. 02860 www.hopebindery.com (401 726-6688)

2. Ocean State Bookbinding, 225 Dupont Dr., Providence, R.I. www.oceanstatebookbinding.com (401 528-1172)

See also: Self publishing sources for graduate theses

Self Publishing sources for graduate theses

What are some websites where I can print and bind my own book or thesis?

Follow this link to learn 6 Ways to Publish your own Book

Graduate Thesis Workshops

All workshops meet in the Fleet Library at RISD, 7pm-8:30pm

Look for signs directing you to the library meeting rooms or ask a library staff person for assistance.

Tues Jan 13 (Balcony Conference Room)
Ceramics, Textiles, D+M
Session led by Anne West, GSO

Wed Jan 14 (Balcony Conference Room)
General Session, All Departments
Session led by Frances Shipps, Writing Center

Thurs Jan 15 (Balcony Conference Room)
Graphic Design, D+M
Session led by Anne West, GSO

Tues Jan 20 (Balcony Conference Room)
ID, Furniture
Session led by Frances Shipps, Writing Center

Wed Jan 21 (Library classroom 110)
Research in Art & Design:locating sources for writing about one’s work, All Departments
Session led by Ellen Petraits, Fleet Library
Description: A discussion of search strategies for locating specific types of materials useful to developing the research aspect of one’s thesis. Topics include: reference sources, themes and imagery, exhibition catalogues, artists’ writings

*Thurs Jan 22 (Balcony Conference Room)
*Rescheduled for Thurs Jan 29
Glass & Sculpture
Session led by Anne West, GSO

Tues Jan 27 (Balcony Conference Room)
Painting, Printmaking, Photo
Session led by Frances Shipps, Writing Center

Wed Jan 28 (Library Classroom 110)
Research in Art & Design: locating sources for writing about one’s work,, All Departments
Session led by Ellen Petraits, Fleet Library
Description: A discussion of search strategies for locating specific types of materials useful to developing the research aspect of one’s thesis. Topics include: reference sources, themes and imagery, exhibition catalogues, artists’ writings

Thurs Jan 29 (Balcony Conference Room)
Glass & Sculpture
Session led by Anne West, GSO

RISD Masters' Theses

How do I find RISD theses in the Library catalog?

Search by keywords RISD and thesis.

Theses written within the past ten years(1998-2008)are shelved near the Reference Collection on the first floor of the library. Pre-1998 and special format theses are housed in Archives & Special Collections, located on the 2nd floor of the library.