SILS News
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...
August 16, 2012
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) position is an exciting career path that students may wish to consider when selecting their course of study. The CIO of an organization is normally responsible for the information technology that supports an enterprise. A CIO oversees the computing...
August 14, 2012
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill welcomes visiting scholars from Korea, China and Australia. They include, Jong Sung Kim from Keimyung University; Fenglin Li from Wuhan University; and Falk Scholer...
August 13, 2012
Special Topics Courses are truly SPECIAL! The courses offered at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in this category are normally offered once. The credits received can be used as an elective or just because you want to know more....
August 8, 2012
Megan England, graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science, has won the 2012 Young Adult Literature Symposium student stipend from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).
England applied for the scholarship to attend...
August 8, 2012
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science alumnus, James "Jay" Dominick (Ph.D. '05), the top-ranking information technology administrator at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, will become vice president for information technology and...
August 8, 2012
Bruce Henson (MSLS ‘97) has been appointed associate dean for Research & Learning Services at the Georgia Tech Library and Information Center in Atlanta, GA. As associate dean, Henson is responsible for reference and access services, Library service desks, faculty engagement, Archives...
August 8, 2012
Dr. Barbara Moran, Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been appointed to the American Library Association (ALA) Committee on Accreditation (COA).
"This is an important...
August 8, 2012
In addition to new student orientation, this year for the first time orientation sessions for second year students will be offered at the School of Information and Library Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"In an effort to help you get through you second year a...
August 8, 2012
Joyce L. Ogburn (MSLS '82), dean, J. Willard Marriott Library University Librarian University of Utah and past president of the Association of College and Research Libraries, has received the distinction of being selected as one of 30 women to watch by Utah Business Magazine.
The article...
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...
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