2010 News
December 21, 2010
The School of Information and Library Science office will be open December 20 through December 23 and closed December 24 and 27. SILS will be open on December 28 and 29 and closed December 30 and 31.
The first day of classes for spring semester is January 10, 2011.
Have a safe and happy...
December 15, 2010
The 2011 DigCCurr Public Symposium - "Curate Me: Stewardship of Personal Digital Archives" is now open for registration.
The event will take place January 7, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room at Wilson Library on the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
December 13, 2010
SILS alumni, Benn P. Joseph (MSLS '06) and M. Nathalie Wheaton (MSLS '06) met at SILS in 2004 when they were just beginning their programs in library science. On February 9, 2010, the couple welcomed an adorable daughter, Sophie Carolina. She weighed 11 pounds, 1 ounce and was 21 inches long...
December 13, 2010
BSIS major Elizabeth Sams was recently awarded an honorable mention in the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for 2011. A list of the winners will be published in the January 2011 issue of Computing News.
Winners must be nominated by two faculty...
December 7, 2010
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) is pleased to announce its summer international programs for 2011. Register now for either the seminar program to London, England or to Prague in the Czech Republic.
Registration is open to all...
December 6, 2010
Sponsored annually by the North Carolina Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (NCSLA), the Sara Aull Student Paper Award recognizes the best student paper of publishable quality relating to special libraries. This year's award winner was SILS Master's student Chris Doty for his paper...
December 2, 2010
When SILS Master's students in the library science track envision their future careers, most anticipate working in either academic or public library settings. SILS alumna Vesselina Stoytcheva (MSLS 1999) chose instead to look to the world of small business and the opportunities it provides to...
December 2, 2010
A new book written by School of Information and Library Science (SILS) MSIS student Evan Carroll (BSIS '08), experience designer and researcher, and John Romano, interaction designer and technology researcher, examines the issues surrounding digital files after you are gone.
The book...
December 1, 2010
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is seeking doctoral student applicants interested in Middle Eastern Studies and librarianship. These Fellowships are funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
A 20 hour a week...
November 30, 2010
His goal to run across all 50 U.S. states came one step closer to fruition on November 21st, as SILS director of Information Technology Scott Adams crossed 208 miles of rough Florida terrain that included swamps, boiling asphalt, and, finally, the snow-white sands of Daytona Beach.
In...
November 24, 2010
The Carolina Library Community building project is part of the campus-wide UNC Class of 2011 Build a Block project, which is a student-led initiative to build ten houses for families of UNC staff over the 2010-2011 academic school year.
SILS faculty, staff students and alumni; Library...
November 23, 2010
Thanksgiving recess begins Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 with no classes held. The School of Information and Library Science will observe the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, Nov. 25 and Friday, Nov. 26.
Have a safe and happy holiday!
November 22, 2010
The School of Information and Library Science at UNC at Chapel Hill is happy to announce the launch of its mobile version of the SILS Web site. Visitors will now be able to browse all of the SILS Web site content using an interface tailored to their mobile device. The new mobile version...
November 22, 2010
The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host the DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle, in May 2011 and January 2012.
The Institute is a two part session consisting of one five-day...
November 22, 2010
Storytellers and musicians will entertain children and adults of all ages at the Friends of the Library’s 18th annual Winter Stories program on Thursday, Dec. 9 in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room of the Wilson Library.
This year’s program, which begins at 5 p.m. in the Wilson...
November 19, 2010
SILS alumnus, Michael Fitzgerald (MSLS ’08), is co-director of the "Map of Jazz Musicians" project, which was recently funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Start-Up Grant.
The grant, which can be up to $50,000, ...
November 18, 2010
As a research assistant for the past two years, SILS student Liz Koehler has partnered with Dr. Sandra Hughes-Hassell on a number of studies targeting school librarians and young adult users. One of them, an examination of school library resources for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and...
November 17, 2010
During his time as a student at SILS, Sayan Chakraborty (MSIS 2006) realized that he loved solving complex questions related to information—particularly those that called for him to pay close attention to the needs of information users. As a senior consultant at Deloitte, a major...
November 10, 2010
The result of a recent three-way partnership between The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Cyberinfrastructure for Billions of Electronic Records project (CI-BER) held its...
November 8, 2010
The guest speaker for the School of Information and Library Science's (SILS) winter commencement ceremony is SILS alumna (MSLS '97) Deborah Balsamo. Balsamo is the National Program Manager for EPA's National Library Network where she has the responsibility for...
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