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Dr. Jane Greenberg named McColl professor
August 24, 2007 – Dr. Jane Greenberg, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been named a Frances Carroll McColl Term Professor.
The McColl Professorship was established in 1997 to provide a salary supplement and funds for research and travel to a single SILS faculty member for a two-year term. A second McColl Professorship was created in 2005.
Greenberg currently leads the SILS Metadata Research Center. She teaches courses on organizing information, metadata and abstracting and indexing. Her current research interests include metadata, cataloging/indexing and classification, semantic web developments and ontologies and visual image indexing.
Hugh McColl, Jr. established the McColl Professorship in memory of his mother, Frances Carroll McColl, and sister, Frances McColl Covington. Hugh McColl said he was inspired to create the professorship by the school’s needs and his mother’s love of literature.
“My mother taught everyone in the family to love books, and we have prospered from having access to them and, perhaps more important, knowing where to turn to find the information we need,” McColl said.
The second McColl Professorship was created in 2005 thanks to support from Bill and Sarah McCoy and Duncan Smiith.
Greenberg joins professor and SILS senior associate dean Dr. Paul Solomon as a current McColl Professor.
Past McColl Professors are Dr. Stephanie Haas (2005-2007), Dr. Barbara Wildemuth (2004-06), Dr. Evelyn Daniel (2002-04), Dr. Helen Tibbo (2000-02), Dr. Robert M. Losee (1998-2000) and Dr. William M. Shaw Jr. (1997-98).