2002 News

November 13, 2002
Dr. Barbara Wildemuth, a professor at UNC at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been named the school’s new associate dean for undergraduate studies. Her appointment follows the introduction this fall of the school...
November 13, 2002
Dr. Claudia Gollop, an associate professor at UNC at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), recently received a grant supplement for $110,523 to continue a research project titled “Analytic Techniques for Qualitative...
November 13, 2002
Participants are being sought for a seminar offering a chance to study the history of librarianship at England's world-renowned Bodleian Library, one of the greatest research centers in the world. The program is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
November 13, 2002
Building on the success of its inaugural Prague Seminar earlier this year, the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at UNC at Chapel Hill is now taking registrations for a return visit to the Czech Republic in June 2003. The two-week program for library...
November 13, 2002
Participants are being sought for a seminar offering a chance to study the history of librarianship at England's world-renowned Bodleian Library, one of the greatest research centers in the world. The program is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
November 13, 2002
Building on the success of its inaugural Prague Seminar earlier this year, the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at UNC at Chapel Hill is now taking registrations for a return visit to the Czech Republic in June 2003. The two-week program for library...
November 13, 2002
Dr. Barbara Wildemuth, a professor at UNC at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been named the school’s new associate dean for undergraduate studies. Her appointment follows the introduction this fall of the school...
November 1, 2002
The following is a transcript of the 2002 Henderson Lecture, presented by William Ferris, associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South and co-editor of the Pulitzer Prize nominee Encyclopedia of the South, on Thursday, Nov. 7, at Wilson...
October 22, 2002
Dr. Deborah Barreau, an assistant professor at UNC at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been named Outstanding Information Science Teacher for 2002 by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)....
October 13, 2002
All members of the SILS community are invited to attend a reception at the Southeast Library Association/South Carolina Library Association Fall 2002 Conference, on Friday, October 25, from 5:15-6:15 p.m. at the Westin Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, S.C. All...
August 30, 2002
All SILS students, faculty, staff, and alumni are cordially invited to a reception hosted by the SILS Alumni Association on Tuesday, September 10 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the lobby of Manning Hall. Please join us for this annual event and fun opportunity to meet...
August 29, 2002
Dr. Jerry Saye, a professor at SILS, has been named a Fulbright scholar for the spring 2003 semester. From February through June, he will be based in the Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies, Faculty of Arts, at the University of...
July 29, 2002
Deborah K. Barreau and Jonghoon Lee have joined the faculty of UNC at Chapel Hill’s number-one ranked School of Information and Library Science (SILS). Most recently an assistant professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.,...
July 12, 2002
Deborah K. Barreau has joined the faculty of UNC at Chapel Hill's number-one ranked School of Information and Library Science (SILS). Most recently an assistant professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Barreau returns to the school...
July 12, 2002
Jonghoon Lee has joined the faculty of UNC at Chapel Hill's number-one ranked School of Information and Library Science (SILS). Lee, who is currently completing his doctoral degree in library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will...
July 12, 2002
Professors Gary Marchionini and Stephanie Haas at UNC at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) will lead a joint university/government effort to make government statistics available over the Internet more accessible and understandable by the...
June 6, 2002
Working with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and UNC at Chapel Hill's Health Sciences Library, the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) is helping to build an exciting new online resource for North Carolina consumer health information. Currently in its...
June 3, 2002
Dr. Evelyn H. Daniel, professor and dean emeritus at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the school's Frances Carroll McColl Professor for 2002-2004. The McColl Professorship was...
May 22, 2002
Joanne Gard Marshall, dean of UNC at Chapel Hill's number-one ranked School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been named a fellow of the Medical Library Association (MLA). The honor, recognizing outstanding contributions and commitment to health sciences...
May 20, 2002
Dr. Brian Sturm, an assistant professor at UNC at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been named the school's Outstanding Teacher of the Year for 2001-2002. Sturm, a member of the SILS faculty since 1998, is the sixth professor at the...