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March 8, 2013
If you’re making 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! The popular summer seminars to Prague, Czech Republic and London, England offer a once in a lifetime opportunity to...
March 6, 2013
Mary Mellon and Peter Shirts, graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), have been selected as winners of the 2013 Baker & Taylor Scholarships for summer seminars in Europe.
Shirts will travel to London for his...
March 6, 2013
Dr. Barbara B. Moran, Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor at the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS), participated in a panel discussion about the role of technology in the future of libraries on WUNC 91.5 National Public Radio’s broadcast, “The...
March 6, 2013
Carol Jenkins, professor of practice at the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and director of UNC’s Health Sciences Library, has announced her retirement after 26 years at the helm of one of the nation’s leading health and medical libraries. Her...
March 4, 2013
By Brandon F. Thompson, UNC at Chapel Hill Facilities Services
A unique carpentry project will be taking place on campus in the coming days. At first, it might just sound like a typical job for Facilities Services’ Carpentry Shop – repair a section of one of the campus’...
March 4, 2013
For those who missed it, on Friday, March 1, 2013, Dr. Charles F. Friedman, director of the Health Informatics Program, Schools of Information and Public Health; professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health; and professor, School of Information at the University of...
March 4, 2013
On Tuesday, "The 2013 Emerging Trends in Information Professions Showcase" took place at Motorco Music Hall in Durham. This lively event included lightening talks by SILS faculty, alumnus and student and a panel discussion by some local IT/IS companies.
Lightening Presentations featured...
February 27, 2013
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced that Jennifer Castaldo (MSLS 2008), SILS alumna and electronic resources manager/distance education librarian at the Johns Hopkins University, is the recipient of the 2013 First Step Award-A Wiley...
February 27, 2013
Rebecca Vargha, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) librarian and adjunct faculty member, has been named a Fellow by the Special Libraries Association (SLA), the "nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and...
February 27, 2013
Registration now open: http://tinyurl.com/acgdjmv
Over the past decade, a significant gap has emerged between the research and development in digital curation, on the one hand, and professional practices of archivists, librarians, and museum curators, on the other. There are now many viable...
February 27, 2013
Ashley Brown and Lori Neumeier, Master’s students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), have been awarded scholarships to attend the annual National Conference on Managing Electronic Records (MER) in Chicago, IL.
The...
February 25, 2013
The Open Planets Foundation (OPF) has welcomed two new affiliate organizations to its membership: Portico, a digital preservation service, and the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a number one ranked school in the United States....
February 25, 2013
All students, faculty and staff of the School of Information and Library Science are invited to submit nominations for the 2013 “Deborah Barreau Award for Teaching Excellence.” SILS will recognize two outstanding faculty–one full-time faculty member and one adjunct faculty member...
February 22, 2013
The Center for Children's Books will host the annual Gryphon Lecture on March 1, 2013 at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Brian Sturm, associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School...
February 22, 2013
Dr. Diane Kelly, associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been selected to receive the prestigious British Computer Society (BCS) BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) Karen Spärck-Jones...
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