1998 News
December 1, 1998
Chapel Hill, NC — Dr. Ben Shneiderman of the University of Maryland's Department of Computer Science visited the School of Information and Library Science on December 7th, as the ninth invited lecturer in the annual Lucile Kelling Henderson Lecture Series. Shneiderman's lecture, "The...
November 13, 1998
By L.J. TOLER
UNC at Chapel Hill News Services
CHAPEL HILL -- Her in-depth vision for the future of library and information services helped earn Dr. Joanne Gard Marshall of Canada her new job: dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library...
September 1, 1998
CHAPEL HILL, NC -- the computer scientist credited as the primary force behind the development of the Internet, brought his vision of the next wave of web surfing to SILS faculty, students and campus administrators August 31.
SILS and MCI Communications Corporation co-sponsored the luncheon...
September 1, 1998
Chapel Hill, NC — Andrew Jackson, a second year SILS student has qualified for the 20th Annual Ironman Triathlon World Championship on October 3, 1998 on the big island of Hawaii.
The Ironman consists of a 2.4 mile ocean swim, 112 mile bike race and 26.2 mile run, to be completed within 17...
May 18, 1998
CHAPEL HILL, NC — Nearly 100 graduates were honored May 17 at the SILS 66th commencement ceremony. Dean Barbara Moran welcomed the audience of more than 175 graduates, family members and friends, commenting on the many changes in the school during the two years since she had first...
April 1, 1998
Chapel Hill, NC — This fall, students and faculty at UNC's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) will benefit from a new computer laboratory equipped with the latest Intel-based workstations. The Laboratory for Networking and Internet Technologies will be funded as part of a $2.4...
April 1, 1998
Chapel Hill, NC — SILS is pleased to present Dr. Martin Dillon, Executive Director of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Institute as the SILS 1998 graduation speaker. Dillon will present “The information professions: The future is not what it used to be” May 17 to...
April 1, 1998
Chapel Hill, NC — Renowned children's and young adult author Mary Pope Osborne spent her own childhood living on various Army bases throughout the southern United States. It was while on the sand dunes of one of those posts (ironically one named "Fort Story") that the young...
March 1, 1998
Chapel Hill, NC -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science announces the first Susan Steinfirst Memorial Lecture on Children's Literature, to be held on Saturday, April 4, 1998. Noted children's author, Mary Pope Osborne, will present "Myth,...
February 1, 1998
Chapel Hill, NC — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) faculty grew stronger by three this year when Gregory B. Newby, Brian W. Sturm and Charles L. Viles joined the school's ranks.
Assistant Professors Newby and Viles joined the...
January 1, 1998
CHAPEL HILL, NC — The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill learned recently that Dr. Lester E. Asheim left the school a second estate gift, in the amount of $137,000, at the time of his death in July 1997.
Asheim was William...
January 1, 1998
CHAPEL HILL, NC — Thanks to a recent gift from leading book distributor Baker & Taylor, a student at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will have the opportunity to study at the world-renowned Bodleian Library at...
January 1, 1998
Chapel Hill, NC — Dr. Edward G. Holley, William Rand Kenan, Jr. professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS), is the 1998 winner of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) award for...
January 1, 1998
Chapel Hill, NC — This May the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and the University of Oxford's world-renowned Bodleian Library and the Department for Continuing Education will offer an opportunity to study the history of...
January 1, 1998
Chapel Hill, NC — International serials subscription service Swets & Zeitlinger, Inc., with its North American office in Exton, Pa., has established a scholarship to assist students interested in serials librarianship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of...
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