2007 News
December 18, 2007
The School of Information and Library Science will be closed for the winter holidays Monday, December 24 through Tuesday, January 1. The Dean's Office will close Friday, December 21 at 2:00 p.m. and will reopen January 2 at 8:00 a.m.
Spring semester opens Friday, January 4 with classes beginning...
December 15, 2007
Sarah Dessen, The New York Times best-selling author of young adult books, will be the featured presenter at the 2008 Steinfirst Lecture on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hosted by the School of Information and Library Science, the lecture will take place on...
December 11, 2007
SILS alumna, Dr. Irene Owens, Ph.D. '95, has received the 2007 North Carolina Library Association's Roundtable for Ethnic Minority Concerns (REMCo) Roadbuilders' Award for Library Education. Owens is the dean of the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at North Carolina Central...
December 2, 2007
The following press release was issued by the Library of Congress. The Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control was chaired by Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, dean of the School of Information and Library Science.
The Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control has released...
December 2, 2007
When Joan Petit (MSLS '06) was a little girl, she knew she would probably live overseas someday. After all, her parents were global travelers and her father ran a hospital ship called Project Hope in the 70s that sailed from San Francisco to Tunisia and other parts of Indonesia. But it wasn't until...
November 29, 2007
Register now for the School of Information and Library Science's summer international program for 2008 before registration closes on March 1.
Registration is open to anyone interested in being part of the summer seminars in Prague, Czech Republic or Oxford, England. These international summer...
November 29, 2007
Paul Jones, director of ibiblio and clinical associate professor at SILS and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named University Distinguished Lecturer at Kansas State University. Jones was nominated by Thomas Gould,...
November 28, 2007
The Deep Dish Theatre Company will present another of its Side Dish events, "If Only in My Dreams," on Friday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. Admission for the evening of readings is a suggested donation of $5 or a non-perishable food item, with proceeds to benefit the Inter-faith Council’s...
November 28, 2007
Siva Vaidhyanathan will be the featured presenter at the 2008 Henderson Lecture on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hosted by the School of Information and Library Science, the lecture will take place on Feb. 6, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Frank Porter...
November 20, 2007
The School of Information and Library Science Administrative Office will close at 2 p.m. tomorrow, Wednesday, November 21, 2007, for the Thanksgiving break.
Thanksgiving recess begins tomorrow with no classes held. The University will be closed Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 22 and Friday,...
November 14, 2007
When SILS doctoral student Songphan Choemprayong traveled home to Thailand last summer, it was to visit with his family, work and relax. He also had time to take out his camera for a few shots of his homeland.
This week, the Center for Global Initiatives at University of North Carolina at Chapel...
November 13, 2007
Registration for the 2nd annual Science Bloggers Conference is now open. This free, collaborative, open conference for those interested in science communication, education and literacy on the Web will be held Saturday, January 19, 2008 at the Sigma Xi Center in Research Triangle Park, NC.
The North...
November 12, 2007
Turntables, technology and music theory will collide when Paul D. Miller, better known as DJ Spooky "That Subliminal Kid," presents a discussion/demonstration preceding his world premiere performance of "Video Soul: Wattstax to the Avant Garde."
The lecture/demo will take place...
November 9, 2007
Dr. Catherine Blake, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has won the 2007 JASIST John Wiley & Sons Best Paper Award.
The two-part article, "Collaborative Information Synthesis, Part I" and “...
November 9, 2007
Jane Greenberg, a Francis Carroll McColl Term Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), and Eva Méndez, a professor of librarianship and information science at Spain’s Universidad Carlos III of Madrid and...
November 8, 2007
The ROTC of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will honor veterans during a special tribute on November 9 at the Newman Catholic Student Center Parish at 218 Pittsboro St.
Officially, November 11, 2007 has been proclaimed Veteran's Day, and the week of November 11 through November 17...
November 8, 2007
Dr. Laura Gasaway, associate dean and professor at the School of Law and adjunct professor of practice at the School of Information and Library Science, will provide the keynote address at the School's winter commencement ceremony. The ceremony will take place in the Pleasants Family Room of the...
November 8, 2007
Get ready for great storytelling and musical entertainment for children and adults alike. The annual winter story telling and musical extravaganza event will once again be held on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Holiday Spirits" will be presented on...
November 2, 2007
Dr. Barbara Wildemuth, professor at the School of Information and Library Science, has been elected to a three-year term as Director-at-Large for the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T).
Wildemuth is part of the ASIS&T Board that governs the organization of...
October 31, 2007
Alan Taylor, coordinator of the State Employees Combined Campaign for all 16 North Carolina campuses; Stephanie Peterson, SILS Student Services assistant manager; Lara Bailey, Student Services manager; and Devan Donaldson, SILS student coordinator of the campus-wide campaign, welcome campus...
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