SILS News
January 16, 2013
Students and graduates (or soon to be graduates) who are seeking a job or internship in health related fields are invited to attend a special Health Affairs Job and Internship Expo. An excellent opportunity to meet with potential employers who are interested in YOU, the special event...
January 16, 2013
Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa
The ELIME-21 fellows in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill plan to edit a volume on library and information science (LIS) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)....
January 11, 2013
Marjorie M. K. Hlava, Board of Visitors member of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and founder and chair of Access Innovations, Inc. of Albuquerque, is among 32 New Mexicans honored as 2013 “Women of Influence” by...
January 9, 2013
GREAT NEWS! Baker & Taylor, a leading worldwide distributor of books, video, music and games, will offer scholarships for the School of Information and Library Science International Summer Seminars to London, England and Prague, Czech Republic. Two lucky SILS graduate students will be selected...
January 9, 2013
Dr. Sandra Hughes-Hassell, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has been honored with the opportunity to be the "Call-to-Action" speaker at this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunrise Celebration during the...
January 8, 2013
Lee Dirks (MSLS ‘93), former director for Portfolio Strategy at Microsoft who died tragically in an automobile accident along with his wife Judy Lew last August, has been selected as a 2012 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS)...
January 7, 2013
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks as the number one value in American public higher education because it offers students “stellar academics” at a bargain price, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine.
For the 12th time in a row, UNC-Chapel...
December 21, 2012
The School of Information and Library Science is pleased to welcome Cliff Missen as clinical associate professor on January 1, 2013. Missen is the director of the WiderNet Project and has previously been an instructor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa.
The...
December 21, 2012
Registration Now Open!
DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle
May 12-17, 2013 & January 6-7, 2014 (One price for two sessions) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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December 16, 2012
On Sunday, Dec. 16th, the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) will conduct its Fall commencement ceremony and celebration for students who have completed their degree requirements.
Ceremony
The SILS ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room of the Louis...
December 13, 2012
“The judge’s ruling is significant not only for Georgia State University (GSU), but for all educational fair use,” said GSU President Mark Becker about the ruling in a GSU copyright case. In 2008, several publishers brought lawsuit against GSU for its use of copyrighted...
December 12, 2012
"Across the Divide: On Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Information Science and Communication" will be the topic of the eighth annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science on March 25, 2013.
Deen Freelon, assistant professor of Public...
December 12, 2012
NOTE: The Search Committee is currently reviewing applications and hopes to conduct preliminary interviews beginning January 14,2013.
The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites nominations and applications for a tenure-track faculty...
December 11, 2012
Dr. Denise Anthony will join the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on January 1, 2013 as lecturer. Anthony joins SILS from the University of Denver’s Library and Information Science where she taught for seven...
December 10, 2012
The 2012 School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Staff Excellence awards were presented to Kaitlyn Murphy, student services manager and Mark Snyder, desktop support and help desk manager during the School Retreat on December 6, 2012.
The award is presented to SILS staff members who...
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