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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
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 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 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
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 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
"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 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/...
April 8, 2013
CHAPEL HILL - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has received a $456,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the second phase of the BitCurator project, to develop, distribute and integrate open source forensic...
April 5, 2013
In a competitive application process consisting of nearly 100 candidates, UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science alumnus, Benn Joseph (MSLS '06) has been selected as a participant in the 2013 Archives Leadership Institute. The program is funded by the National...
April 3, 2013
Two $1,000 merit-based scholarships for newly admitted undergraduates in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) bachelor’s in information science (BSIS) degree program have been awarded to Krista Katzenmeyer and Libby Livingston. The scholarships, which are awarded spring and...
April 3, 2013
If you’re finalizing travel plans for your summer vacation, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) may have the answer for you! We have only two seats left for the popular summer seminar to London and just a few more available for...
March 27, 2013
Marla Sullivan (BSIS ’12), a recent alumna of the Univresity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS), will be honored next month for completing the Carolina Research Scholar Program (CRSP) during her time as an undergraduate. In addition to being...
March 27, 2013
Leslie Sult (MSLS '02), instructional services librarian at the University of Arizona Libraries and alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS), and her colleague Gregory (Mike) Hagedon, senior applications systems analyst/...
March 26, 2013
The University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science and School of Government invite you to attend the annual public symposium held on April 19, 2013 from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. The event is titled, “Information Stewardship in Public-Private Partnerships: Managing...
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