SILS News
September 13, 2012
Next month, SILS Master’s student Lisbeth Wells-Pratt will be awarded the Brooks McNamara Performing Arts Librarian Scholarship at a ceremony in New York City. Awarded by the Theater Library Association (TLA), Lisbeth will collect her award at a gala ceremony at one of the world’...
September 13, 2012
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science graduate Kelly Wooten (MSLS 2002; BA 1999) recently co-edited the book Make Your Own History: Documenting Feminist and Queer Activism in the 21st Century (Litwin Books, 2012) with Lyz Bly, which addresses the...
September 12, 2012
A memorial service and tribute to Dr. Jerry D. Saye, former Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS), will be held on Friday, November 2, 2012 at 1 p.m. in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room in the Wilson Library on the UNC at...
September 10, 2012
Two alumna of the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) have joined the staff of NC LIVE. Sarah Dooley (MSLS '12) and Emily Guhde (MSLS '12) are the newest additions to North Carolina's statewide online library service.
Dooley joins NC LIVE as its first Web and User...
September 9, 2012
The American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group (SIG) USE has selected Laura Christopherson, doctoral student at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as the recipient of the 2012 ASIS&T SIG USE...
September 6, 2012
The prestigious Watson Davis Award, presented each year by the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), will go to K.T. Vaughan (MSLS '01), an alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, education services...
August 30, 2012
A fatal automobile accident in Peru has claimed the lives of SILS alumnus, adjunct instructor and Board of Visitors member, Lee Dirks (MSLS '90) and his wife Judy Lew on Tuesday, August 28, 2012. According to news reports, the couple were on their way to visit pre-Columbian ruins in Calca...
August 30, 2012
Dr. Robert M. Losee’s book, Information from Processes, About the Nature of Information Creation, Use, and Representation, is now available.
Losee’s book, published by Springer, strives to find a domain-independent information model useful in the many disciplines such as computer...
August 24, 2012
Dr. Miles Efron (MSIS ’00, Ph.D. ’03), who has been chosen by the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumni Association Board as their latest featured alumnus, went from SILS to the frontline of some of the most...
August 24, 2012
The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources Office of the Secretary has selected Dr. Kevin Cherry (Ph.D. '10) as the next Deputy/Secretary in the Office of Archives and History effective October 16, 2012.
Cherry will succeed Dr. Jeff Crow, who is retiring from the position after 38 years of...
August 23, 2012
Jenifer Grady (MSLS '93), alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, has been appointed executive director of Tenn-Share, an organization whose mission is to help "Tennessee libraries deliver efficient, effective library...
August 22, 2012
Earlier this summer, doctoral student, Elliott Hauser received the 2012 Roger K. Summit Scholarship presented by ProQuest, an information firm central to global research. The scholarship — named in honor of Dialog founder Roger K. Summit, a pioneer in developing online...
August 22, 2012
Welcome to the School of Information and Library Science and to Chapel Hill. For those of you returning to campus, welcome back. To those who are new to SILS, we’re delighted you have joined us. The faculty, staff and your fellow students are pleased that you have selected SILS for your...
August 22, 2012
"The Effects of Aggregated Search Coherence on Search Behavior" is the title of a new research project that will be completed by Dr. Jaime Arguello, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) through an "...
August 22, 2012
Dr. Jane Greenberg launched her first class of the semester with an in-person Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)/National Information Standards Organization (NISO) webinar titled "Metadata for Managing Scientific Research Data." Attendees included students in her class, a couple of...
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