My master's thesis is now online
I just uploaded a PDF of my master's thesis, "McCarthyism and Libraries: Intellectual Freedom Under Fire, 1947-1954," at my personal wiki. Now that I'm done with my 2nd master's degree (it only took four years), I'd like to focus on doing some writing for publication on some aspect of anticommunism and American libraries, perhaps looking more deeply into one of the many stories I covered in my thesis about how librarians and library organizations responded to the pressures of McCarthyism.
At the same time, I also expect to start pursuing some research interests I have into chat reference services. Since I last published an article in a peer-reviewed journal (my one and only) five years ago, there's been a ton of research in this area that I want to catch up on and contribute to in a more analytical way than my musings here in this blog.
With those concerns in mind lately, I found Steven Bell's recent posts on ACRLog about academic librarians and the need to publish to be timely and compelling:
posted by Stephen Francoeur @ 3:15 PM
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What a great topic, Stephen. That's a historical period that always interested me as well. Congrats on being finished! You should archive your thesis in one of the library science repositories like E-LIS http://eprints.rclis.org/. It would make it so much easier for people to find it and for it to becoem a part of the scholarly knowledge in our field. I look forward to reading it. :)
Thanks for the tip about E-LIS. I hadn't heard of it, but have now registered on the site and am planning to upload my thesis there.
This is good stuff. Man...I didn't have to write a thesis for my LIS masters, but for my Literature masters my topic was "Yeats's Women: Mothers, Daughters, and Whores." Despite my catchy title, yours made much more interesting reading :)
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