2012 News
August 8, 2012
Dr. Chirag Shah (Ph.D. '10), SILS alumnus and assistant professor at Rutgers University Department of Library and Information Science at the School of Communication and Information has a new book published. In Collaborative Information Seeking Shah focuses on "two...
August 8, 2012
Dr. Rosemary Green (MSLS '77), SILS alumna, graduate programs librarian and adjunct associate professor at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA - where she is completing her 30th year with the university - has made the top twenty when it comes to instruction articles.
Green'...
August 8, 2012
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) regrets to report the sad news of the passing of alumna, Ruth Monroe Eggleston Cannon (BSLS '52) who died Friday, July 27, 2012 at The Colonnades in Charlottesville...
August 8, 2012
Dr. Meredith R. Evans Raiford (Ph.D. '06) has been appointed associate university librarian for Special Collections at the J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. She has over 15 years of management experience in both academic and commercial settings and...
August 6, 2012
The Faculty at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill seek interdisciplinary colleagues who are interested in joining our sustained and creative efforts to advance the scholarship and practice of information and library science. Those with...
July 25, 2012
ProQuest, an information firm central to global research, has awarded the 2012 Roger K. Summit Scholarship to Elliott Hauser, a Ph.D. student studying information science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The scholarship — named in honor of Dialog founder Roger K. Summit, a...
July 25, 2012
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science has recently appointed honorary faculty including:
Deborah Balsamo (MSLS ‘97), professor of practice. She is the National Program Manager, Environmental Protection Agency National Library...
July 19, 2012
Pam Mayer (MSLS '11), a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science has been awarded the 2012 Theodore Calvin Pease Award from the Society of American Archivists (SAA) for her Master’s paper entitled “Like a Box of...
July 11, 2012
Tammy Cox, assistant dean of administration at the School of Information and Library Science, has two reasons to celebrate.
She has been elected treasurer of the UNC at Chapel Hill Employee Forum. The Forum is made up of EPA non-faculty and SPA employees who are elected by...
July 11, 2012
CHAPEL HILL - Dr. Joanne Gard Marshall, alumni distinguished professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been selected by the Board of Directors of the Medical Library Association (MLA) for the 2013 Janet Doe Lectureship....
July 11, 2012
In the winter of 2007, a few days before she was scheduled to leave for a conference in Seattle (WA), Dr. Claudia Gollop, Frances Carroll McColl Term Professor, had an appointment with her physician during which she mentioned a small, dull pain in her back. It was the startling results of her visit...
July 11, 2012
The School of Information and Library Science celebrated the ending of its 80th anniversary year by taking a forward look at the future of our field and its graduates during the Information Professionals 2050 (IP2050) Symposium and Conference. The result of the conference and symposium are...
July 11, 2012
It was his mother’s and stepfather’s never-ending support and continued belief in him at each step of his educational experience that helped Dr. Fred W. Roper (A.B. ’60 and MSLS ’62) choose librarianship as his profession. And spending much of his work life in medical...
July 9, 2012
Catalyzed by a $1.39 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) represents a major university-wide commitment to the digital humanities, underwritten by the Office of the Provost, College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Vice...
July 2, 2012
There's still time to register for the "IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY 2012)" that will be held in just two weeks on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. Don't delay! Register today by accessing: http://...
June 30, 2012
By Aaron Dodson and Alecia Smith
On April 4th, 2005, when the North Carolina men’s basketball team won its first national title since 1993 and fourth overall in university history, the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) was proud to call one of its students a champion...
June 29, 2012
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill welcomes Ericka Patillo who joins the School's faculty as lecturer effective July 1, 2012.
Patillo is a doctoral student at SILS with research interests of organizational...
June 29, 2012
What Do Employers Want?: A Guide for Library Science Students, is a new book co-written by Richard Murray (MSLS ’99), metadata librarian and the Spanish & Portuguese cataloger at the Duke University Libraries and an alumnus of the School of Information and Library Science at the...
June 29, 2012
Melanie Sturgeon, a library science student who discovered the field while volunteering in a local public library has been awarded a conference travel stipend by the SPIE Digital Library.
The SPIE Digital Library will award a travel stipend enabling a library studies student at the...
June 29, 2012
A familiar face will once again be seen in Manning Hall when Dr. Fred Stutzman (Ph.D. '11) returns to the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stutzman has been appointed visiting assistant professor effective July 1,...
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