SILS News

April 17, 2013
Thomas Jones (BSIS ‘09 ), an alumnus of the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and Executive Vice President of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronic Association of North Carolina (AFCEA-NC), is responsible for organizing a charity event called...
April 17, 2013
The technical report, "Digital Curation Preparation: A Survey of Contributors to International Professional, Educational and Research Venues" is now available in the "Research" section of the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Web site....
April 17, 2013
A workshop on Big Data and the Humanities will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2013), which takes place between 6-9 October 2013 in Silicon Valley, California, USA. The workshop will address applications of “big data” in the...
April 17, 2013
Caroline (Cal) Shepard (MSLS '77), State Librarian of North Carolina, has been selected as the 2013 School of Information and Library Science Distinguished Alumna at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented to Shepard during the School's...
April 17, 2013
The UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) now has customized diploma frames for SILS students and alumni. The frame is made from Italian hardwoods and features a cherry finish and a black and Carolina blue double mat. The bottom of the frame reads “The...
April 17, 2013
Construction to repair and restore the cupola that is on top of the roof of Manning Hall is now underway. The construction, which began earlier this week, will continue for the next two months or so. As reported in early March, the 30 foot tall cupola, with its decorative columns, ornamental...
April 16, 2013
Call for Participation: iConference 2014 | Breaking Down Walls: Culture-Context-Computing Berlin, Germany 4-7 March, 2014 http://iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/2014index/ The ninth annual iConference will take place 4-7 March, 2014, in Berlin, Germany. The four days will include peer-...
April 13, 2013
  Congratulations to Billy Cook (MSLS '12), library management intern and alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS), who has been appointed Business Project Senior Specialist at CIGNA. Cook begins his new job in May and will be...
April 12, 2013
Carol L. Folt, interim president of Dartmouth College and the Dartmouth Professor of Biological Sciences, has been elected the 11th chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by the Board of Governors of the 17-campus University of North Carolina. UNC President Tom Ross placed...
April 12, 2013
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries will honor "Snapshot Day" with photo sharing, storytelling, a photo booth, donuts and lots of fun on Tuesday, April 16, 2013.  Join Dr. Brian Sturm, associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science (...
April 11, 2013
Jason Priem, a doctoral student and Royster Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has been busy with the press these days. In addition to being published in the March 28, 2013 issue of Nature magazine, he was part of a broadcast...
April 10, 2013
"Celebrating the Art and Design of Pop-Up; Books" lecture and demonstration took place in Manning Hall on April 8, 2013. SILS Librarian, Rebecca Vargha, discussed the history of the pop-up books and demonstrated the complexity of the beautiful books that literally pop-up off the pages....
April 10, 2013
Tammy Ivins (MSLS '11), reference librarian at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC, and alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, has seen her first peer-reviewed research article published. "A Case Study of Periodical Use by...
April 10, 2013
Jennifer Lohmann (MSLS '06), 2010 Romance Writers of America Librarian of the Year, UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science alumna and Durham County Library librarian, has released her second novel, The First Move. The novel tells the story of Miles Brislenn who is reunited...
April 9, 2013
The video captured during the eighth annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture on Information and Library Science hosted by the School of Information  and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on March 25, 2013, is now available at: http://vimeo.com/...