SILS News
February 25, 2013
The Open Planets Foundation (OPF) has welcomed two new affiliate organizations to its membership: Portico, a digital preservation service, and the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a number one ranked school in the United States....
February 22, 2013
The Center for Children's Books will host the annual Gryphon Lecture on March 1, 2013 at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Brian Sturm, associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School...
February 22, 2013
Dr. Diane Kelly, associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been selected to receive the prestigious British Computer Society (BCS) BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) Karen Spärck-Jones...
February 21, 2013
Jennifer Lohmann (MSLS '06), 2010 Romance Writers of America Librarian of the Year, UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science alumna and Durham County Library librarian, will share a reading from her first novel: Reservations for Two on Saturday, February 23, 2013. ...
February 21, 2013
The Carolina faculty’s expertise will be available to online learners around the world as part of a new partnership.
Under an agreement announced today (Feb. 21), the University will partner with Coursera, an online education provider, to offer non-credit courses online at no cost. The...
February 20, 2013
Are you a student who is starting to think about the job market or looking for a field experience site? Interested in meeting potential contacts? Too busy to network and keep up with coursework or your master's paper? Hungry for pizza?
The SILS Alumni Association (SILSAA) and Information and...
February 20, 2013
Four students of the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been selected to attend the tenth Computer Research Association on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) Graduate Cohort Workshop http://cra.org/for-students/....
February 19, 2013
Dr. Christopher "Cal" Lee recently worked with a team of individuals from 11 countries (four continents) to organize and run a planning and strategy session about the international alignment of digital preservation approaches.
Held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on...
February 19, 2013
Board members pose for a photo. From left to right are Graham Lombardi, Kristen Brews, Pooja Chandramouleeswaran, Andrew Stowe, Jacob Massey, Edwin Yun and Sharona Yen. Not included in the photo is new board member Alaina Sajatovic.
Many undergraduates in SILS' BSIS program have an...
February 18, 2013
Calling all doctoral students! Are you conducting or planning to conduct research on digital curation? Do you hope to pursue a career direction that focuses on digital curation? Then we have an event for you.
Come to Chapel Hill to share ideas, strategies and advice about...
February 14, 2013
A research project completed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) associate professor, Dr. Christopher (Cal) Lee, has been named one of the Top 10 Digital Preservation Developments of 2012 by the Library of Congress (LOC). Lee’s...
February 13, 2013
Sofia Becerra-Licha (MSLS ’12), SILS alumna and project archivist at the Berklee College of Music’s Stan Getz Library, is the featured guest on the INALJ (I Need a Library Job). The article covers her recent success in acquiring a job and the reporter asks Becerra-...
February 13, 2013
Got Books? Donate to the Annual SILS Used Book Sale!
The Student Chapter of the American Library Association (SCALA) invites you to share donations for the annual SILS Used Book Sale. The event benefits the Prison Books Collective, as well as SILS student organizations, including ILSSA, SLA, COYL,...
February 13, 2013
Dani Brecher, a graduate student at UNC at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has received one of two LOEX Minority Scholarships. The award is given to a student “who is a member of an under-represented minority group and/or has done significant work to bring...
February 13, 2013
This Thursday, February 14th, UNC at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) alumnus Jason Griffey (MSLS'04) will host an episode of his new broadcast American Libraries Live (AL Live) titled “Mobile Services: The Library in Your Pocket.” Griffey’s broadcast...
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