Historic Preservation Resources: HP Theses
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Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Librarians
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HP Theses
- The masters theses of previous GSAPP Historic Preservation students are cataloged in CLIO.
- Theses published from 2012- are available full-text online in CLIO.
- Theses published prior to 2012 are all housed at Columbia's OFFSITE facility. Requests to see a thesis are handled through Avery Classics.
- To view the list of theses, search these keywords in CLIO : columbia thesis preservation. Please note, you must use the singular "thesis", not the plural theses.
- What appears is a full list of theses, in alphabetical order by title.
- Most students are interested in recent work. In the box above the citations titled "Re-sort result by:" select "Date (newest first)" from the drop-down box. You will have last year's theses in alphabetical order, followed year by descending year, in alphabetical order .
- If you know of a specific author, you can do an author search.
- The records for masters theses are not complete. They have no subject headings. This is generally not a problem since the titles of theses are self-explanatory. If there is a particular topic you are interested in, add that topic to the keywords above. For example churches brooklyn OR marble conservation.