SILS News

January 16, 2013
A new five-year Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) to “establish a cooperative relationship in the field of scientific and...
January 16, 2013
Elizabeth Hille Cribbs, an alumna of UNC’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), will be using the knowledge she learned from SILS in a new position she has recently accepted in a university library in Illinois. On January 16, Cribbs began working as the new Catalog (Music)...
January 16, 2013
  Students and graduates (or soon to be graduates) who are seeking a job or internship in health related fields are invited to attend a special Health Affairs Job and Internship Expo. An excellent opportunity to meet with potential employers who are interested in YOU, the special event...
January 16, 2013
Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa The ELIME-21 fellows in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill plan to edit a volume on library and information science (LIS) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)....
January 11, 2013
Marjorie M. K. Hlava, Board of Visitors member of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and founder and chair of Access Innovations, Inc. of Albuquerque, is among 32 New Mexicans honored as 2013 “Women of Influence” by...
January 9, 2013
GREAT NEWS! Baker & Taylor, a leading worldwide distributor of books, video, music and games, will offer scholarships for the School of Information and Library Science International Summer Seminars to London, England and Prague, Czech Republic. Two lucky SILS graduate students will be selected...
January 9, 2013
Dr. Sandra Hughes-Hassell, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has been honored with the opportunity to be the "Call-to-Action" speaker at this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunrise Celebration during the...
January 8, 2013
Lee Dirks (MSLS ‘93), former director for Portfolio Strategy at Microsoft who died tragically in an automobile accident along with his wife Judy Lew last August, has been selected as a 2012 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS)...
January 7, 2013
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks as the number one value in American public higher education because it offers students “stellar academics” at a bargain price, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. For the 12th time in a row, UNC-Chapel...
December 21, 2012
The School of Information and Library Science is pleased to welcome Cliff Missen as clinical associate professor on January 1, 2013. Missen is the director of the WiderNet Project and has previously been an instructor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. The...
December 21, 2012
Registration Now Open!   DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle    May 12-17, 2013 & January 6-7, 2014 (One price for two sessions) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill          ...
December 16, 2012
On Sunday, Dec. 16th, the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) will conduct its Fall commencement ceremony and celebration for students who have completed their degree requirements. Ceremony The SILS ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room of the Louis...
December 13, 2012
“The judge’s ruling is significant not only for Georgia State University (GSU), but for all educational fair use,” said GSU President Mark Becker about the ruling in a GSU copyright case. In 2008, several publishers brought lawsuit against GSU for its use of copyrighted...
December 12, 2012
"Across the Divide: On Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Information Science and Communication" will be the topic of the eighth annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science on March 25, 2013. Deen Freelon, assistant professor of Public...
December 12, 2012
NOTE: The Search Committee is currently reviewing applications and hopes to conduct preliminary interviews beginning January 14,2013. The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites nominations and applications for a tenure-track faculty...