Boards & Committees

Board of Visitors

The SILS Board of Visitors serve as trusted advisors on educational, research and service programs for the School. The Board assists SILS in enhancing the perception of the School, encouraging the highest quality education, participating in strategic planning, evaluating the School's progress and aiming to increase overall support.

Chair

Charles Lowry
 

Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Professor Emeritus, College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College Park
Washington, DC

 

Committee Members
 

Larry Alford
Chief Librarian
University of Toronto Libraries
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
 
 

 
Mary Boone
Former Chair
North Carolina State Librarian (retired)
Raleigh, NC

 

 

Alice Bordsen
State Representative
North Carolina House of Representatives
Raleigh, NC

 

 

George Coe
President, Baker & Taylor Institutional
Charlotte, NC

 

 
 

Lee Dirks
Director of Education & Scholarly Communications
Microsoft Corporation
Redford, WA

 

 

Kim Duckett
President of SILSAA
Principal Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning, North Carolina State University Libraries
Raleigh, NC
 

David Goble
Past Chair
State Librarian of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

 

 

William Graves
Senior Vice President for Academic Strategy SunGard Higher Education
Chapel Hill, NC

 

 
 

Patricia Harris
Global Standards and Information Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Bethesda, MD

 

 

Marge Hlava
President, Access Innovations Inc.
Albuquerque, NM

 

 
  

Robert L. "Jay" Jordan
President and CEO, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Dublin, OH

 

 

 

 

Robert Martin
Professor Emeritus in the
School of Library and Information Studies Texas Woman's University
Denton, TX 
Previous Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services

 
 

Robert Molyneux
Vice President of Business Development at Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
Norcross, GA

 
 

Peyton Neal
Lawyer 
 

 

 

Marian F. Parker
Law Librarian Consultant
Winston-Salem, NC

 

 

Susan Perry
Senior Advisor
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
South Hadley, MA

 

 

Wayne Pond
Chapel Hill, NC

 

 

 

Fred Roper
Former Chair of the BOV
Dean Emeritus, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

 

 

Judith C. Russell
Dean of University Libraries
George A. Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

 

 

Sarah Snow
Chapel Hill, NC

 

 

 

Michael Tiemann
Chapel Hill, NC

 

 
  

 

Leo Yakutis
Lake Wylie, SC

 

 

 

 

The Knowledge TrustSM

The Knowledge TrustSM is a commitment by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science to shape a critical role for 21st century knowledge professionals.
 

The Louis Round Wilson Academy

The central pillar supporting The Knowledge Trust, the Louis Round Wilson Academy, will define and disseminate the primary tenets of 21st century information and library science and service.

Academy Members

 

 

Administrative Advisory Board

Jane Brown
jane_brown@unc.edu
7/1/10 - 3/31/13
James L. Knight Dist. Professor
School of Journalism/Mass Communication

Claudia Gollop
gollop@ils.unc.edu
Associate Professor
School of Information and Library Science

Jane Greenberg
janeg@email.unc.edu
Professor
School of Information and Library Science

Anselmo Lastra
lastra@email.unc.edu
Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science

David Potenziani
dpotenzi@email.unc.edu
7/1/10 - 3/31/13
Senior Associate Dean
School of Public Health

Ryan Shaw
ryanshaw@unc.edu
Assistant Professor
School of Information and Library Science