Mark your calendar for the grand finale of the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) 75th anniversary. The date is scheduled for September 17, 2007, which coincides with the date the school first began teaching classes in 1931.
Our keynote presenter will be Dr. Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Dr. Gregorian is the 12th president of the corporation., which he assumed in 1997. Prior to this position, he was president of Brown University for nine years and for eight years, he was president of the New York Public Library. Dr. Gregorian is the recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
The Carnegie Corporation provided SILS with its first grant of $100,000 to enable the school to operate for three years and to make permanent its conditional accreditation from the American Library Association.
Please plan to join us the afternoon of Monday, September 17 at Memorial Hall on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is sure to be a grand finale!
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On September 18, 2006, the School of Information and Library Science launched a year-long celebration commemorating its 75th anniversary.
The event was held in Memorial Hall on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus and featured special guests, Michael Ruettgers, senior advisor and retired chairman, EMC Corporation; Dr. Robert Martin, (Ph.D. ‘88) Lillian Bradshaw Endowed Chair in Library Science and professor at Texas Women’s University; and Kathryn Mendenhall (MSLS ‘76), acting director for Partnerships and Outreach Programs and for Technology Policy, Library of Congress who spoke on behalf of Dr. Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress. (more…)
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A special day-long forum highlighting the theme, “A Legacy of Sharing Knowledge” and the future of information and library science professionals will take place on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on February 20, 2007. The event will include the OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science, a tribute to Dr. Frederick G. Kilgour, panel discussions and keynote presentations.
The day will begin with a tribute to Dr. Frederick G. Kilgour, founder of the OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and distinguished research professor at SILS who passed away in July, 2006. Dr. Kilgour invented the WorldCat database, which is one of the most consulted databases in higher education used daily by students, teachers, scholars and researchers worldwide.
The morning will also feature keynote speaker, Michael Tiemann, vice president, Open Source Affairs for Red Hat who will present, “Sharing Knowledge, Multiplying Value: The Non-Linear Nature of Open Source Software.” Tiemann is a true open source software pioneer, making his first major open source contribution over a decade ago by writing the GNU C++ compiler, the first native-code C++ compiler and debugger. His early work led to the creation of leading open source technologies and the first open source business model. (more…)
