2004 News
December 14, 2004
Interested in studying abroad? Registration is open for the School of Information and Library Science's summer seminar in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Registration for Prague, Czech Republic, and Oxford, England, has closed. The seminars can either be taken for academic credit or on a non-credit basis.
Dr...
December 14, 2004
A team of seven SILS undergraduate students won first prize in a national Web site design contest for a project they worked on in a human-computer interaction course taught by Dr. Gary Marchionini. The students involved were: Anecia Allen, Jen O'Bryan, Brent Caison, Krystal Foxx, Terrance Hairston...
December 14, 2004
On Friday, Dec. 17, the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) will conduct its winter commencement ceremony and celebration for those students who have completed their degree requirements in December 2004. This page contains all the information you will need for scheduling, photography,...
November 19, 2004
Susan Tarr, executive director of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) at the Library of Congress, has been selected as the speaker for the 2004 winter commencement at UNC's School of Information and Library Science. The ceremony will be held Dec. 17 at 10 a.m. in the...
November 5, 2004
Seventeen students from the School of Information and Library Science visited Washington, D.C. during fall break on Oct. 14 - 16 to network with industry professionals and alumni.
Students toured the U.S. Department of State, DC Public Library, National Geographic Society, ABC News, Library of...
November 3, 2004
SILS will host the first National Historical Publications and Records Commission Electronic Records Research Fellowships Symposium on November 19.
This small grant program awards four $15,000 grants each year to archivists and records professionals who wish to conduct electronic records research...
October 29, 2004
Correnthia Hill joined the SILS staff Oct. 18 as the assistant student services manager, and she will be working mainly with the undergraduate program.
Hill has been a UNC employee for the past six years, working previously as a student services assistant in the Department of Exercise and Sports...
October 13, 2004
David J. Harper, an internationally recognized scholar in information retrieval, will give a seminar on interfaces and information retrieval at the School of Information and Library Science Oct. 19.
Harper, who is a professor at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, will discuss...
October 6, 2004
ibiblio, the public's library and digital archive, celebrates its 12th birthday in the month of October.
ibiblio, a collaboration between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Center for the Public Domain, has been a vehicle for knowledge sharing since 1992, first as an original...
September 28, 2004
Five students have been awarded $200 each for the ILSSA fall break trip to Washington, D.C. The winners are MSIS student Anne LeBel and MSLS students Rita Bhattacharyya, Lewis Dorman, Benn Joseph and Elizabeth White.
Students were asked to submit one paragraph explaining how a $200 travel award...
September 23, 2004
The federal contract that provides the Environmental Protection Agency's library with staff from SILS and allows graduate students to intern at the library has been renewed for another term of five years.
The special partnership, the only one of its kind between a school and a federal agency, was...
September 23, 2004
The School of Information and Library Science, in partnership with Folkstreams Inc. and ibiblio.org, has received a $95,113 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to digitize documentary films on American folk culture.
The IMLS awarded more than $13 million to...
September 23, 2004
The School of Information and Library Science, in partnership with Folkstreams Inc. and ibiblio.org, has received a $95,113 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to digitize documentary films on American folk culture.
The IMLS awarded more than $13 million to...
September 22, 2004
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced an award of $994,369 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a national research study on the future of librarians in the workforce. The principal investigator is Dr. Jose-Marie Griffiths, who was recently appointed...
September 22, 2004
The School of Information and Library Science has been awarded $994,369 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for a national research study on the future of librarians in the workforce. Dean José-Marie Griffiths is the principal investigator of the project.
“We are...
September 10, 2004
Don't let money matters keep you from joining the ILSSA Fall Break trip to Washington, D.C. Oct. 14-16. Activities planned include tours of the U.S. Department of State, D.C. Public Library, National Geographic Society, ABC News, Library of Congress (a session on digital libraries and more),...
August 31, 2004
ibiblio, a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is one of the major distribution hubs for Linux software and has been a significant supporter of Linux development efforts since the organization was founded in 1992.
Linux, a broad...
August 31, 2004
The SILS Alumni Association cordially invites all SILS students, faculty, staff and alumni to a reception in honor of the new SILS students on Sept. 7 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 new classmates, chat with your...
August 31, 2004
Doc Searls, senior editor of Linux Journal and noted blogger, will visit the UNC campus Sept. 7. Searls runs the new online publication Doc Searls' IT Garage and is the co-author of The New York Times best seller The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual .
His talk, "The...
August 31, 2004
Learn how museum patrons of the future will visit museums virtually in a seminar with Dr. Brad Hemminger on Sept. 3. The Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries (CRADLE) seminar will be at 12:30 p.m. in 208 Manning Hall.
Hemminger will present the basics of how entire museum...
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