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Treks Show Students Career Possibilities

February 3, 2025

Virginia Beall was so excited about the Fall 2024 Career Treks that she signed up for both trips. As a first-year student in the M.S. in Library Science program, she felt the trips would help her learn about different ways … Read more

Alumna’s First Novel Nominated for Award

January 17, 2025

While working as an intern at a public library with a reputation for being haunted, a book-loving college student thinks about becoming a librarian. So, while a global pandemic turns life upside-down, she enrolls in graduate school. She works hard … Read more

SILS Students Become Spectrum Scholars

November 12, 2024

This year, four students from the UNC School of Information and Library Science were awarded Spectrum Scholarships from the American Library Association. This scholarship program actively recruits and provides scholarships to American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Middle Eastern … Read more

Early-Career Professor Recognized for Teaching Excellence

October 28, 2024

Only three years into his career as a professor, Elliott Kuecker has received his second teaching award. This time, it’s the 2024 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Early Career Excellence in Teaching Award. According to ALISE, “Kuecker … Read more

Embracing Discomfort  

September 25, 2024

Ashley Rockenbach hopes that she never forgets to question her role as an archivist.     California. Michigan. Uganda. The Netherlands. Malawi. Virginia. New York. India. North Carolina.   Graduate student Ashley Rockenbach’s life as a scholar, teacher, and researcher has taken … Read more

Unique Partnership Marks Golden Anniversary

September 16, 2024

  The Environmental Protection Agency was a fairly new agency when Edward Holley, dean of the UNC School of Library Science, received a visitor. “Stanley Coerr, then with the EPA Office of Administration, approached the new dean with a question: … Read more

Greer Recognized by the Society of American Archivists

July 30, 2024

MS in Library Science student Shira Greer is the 2024 recipient of the Harold T. Pinkett Student of Color Award given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA). Greer will receive complimentary registration and travel expenses to attend the SAA … Read more

Curating a Life

May 29, 2024

After her third year in art school in New York City, Callie Beattie (MSLS ’24) was feeling overwhelmed and unsure. She had been passionate about a future in photography, but that life was starting to feel like the wrong fit. … Read more

Rising Star: Alena Manjuck

April 16, 2024

Alena (Principato) Manjuck (MSLS ’17) has loved libraries since childhood. As a library page in her teen years, she realized that working in a library could be a career—and her path was set. Her interest in working in libraries took … Read more

Moore Making the Most of SILS Education

April 8, 2024

Receiving the SILS Distinguished Alumni Award might seem like a suitable capstone to Anne Cooper Moore’s 40-year library career. After all, she retired from her position as dean of the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte in December 2023. … Read more