Communications
Communications Office
Are you a student, alumnus, or faculty/staff member with news to share? Does your student organization want to publicize an event on the SILS website, social media channels, or on the digital monitors in Manning Hall? Send your news or request to contactsils@unc.edu.
Media Inquiries
If you are a member of the media working on a tight deadline or seeking comment on a breaking story, please contact the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Communications and Public Affairs at (919) 445-8555 or mediarelations@unc.edu.
Manning Hall Signage
Submit your slides for the monitors in Manning Hall by emailing them to contactsils@unc.edu. Slides should be 1920×1080 px and in jpg, gif, or png format. Please include the date range you would like your slide to run in the email message.
Email Lists
All lists created for SILS community projects and organizations will be created and maintained by faculty, students or staff at https://selfservice.unc.edu/client/self-service/#/list-manager. All class lists are maintained by the administrative office in conjunction with faculty members. Please speak with your professor if you need assistance with a class list.
More information on the UNC listserv system is available here: http://help.unc.edu/help/listserv-administrators-faq-collection/.
You are automatically subscribed to the appropriate lists once you become part of the SILS community:
sils-announce@listserv.unc.edu (moderated) – a list for everyone: staff, faculty, and students.
sils-masters@listserv.unc.edu (moderated) – a list for master’s students
sils-doctoral@listserv.unc.edu (not moderated) – a list for doctoral students
sils-majors@listserv.unc.edu (moderated) – a list for students majoring in information and library science
sils-minors@listserv.unc.edu (moderated) – a list for students minoring in information and library science
Students must subscribe/unsubscribe themselves to all other lists at:
https://selfservice.unc.edu/client/self-service/#/list-manager
Instructions on subscribing and unsubcribing are here: https://help.unc.edu/help/listserv-subscribers-faq-collection/
Other listservs that might be of interest:
sils-students@listserv.unc.edu – an optional, nonacademic list for all SILS students
sils-jobs@listserv.unc.edu (moderated) – a list with postings of job openings
sils-studentjobs (moderated) – a list with student job postings
sils-sla@listserv.unc.edu – the list for the student chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA)
asist-members@listserv.unc.edu – the list for the student chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
scosaa@listserv.unc.edu – the list for the student chapter of the Society of American Archivists (SCOSAA)
amliss@listserv.unc.edu – the list for the Art & Museum Library & Information Student Society (AMLISS)
issue@listserv.unc.edu – the list for Information Science Student Undergraduates Empowered (ISSUE)
sils-alumni@listserv.unc.edu (not moderated) – the list for graduates of the School of Information and Library Science
You may subscribe to any of the lists as a daily digest as follows:
- Login with you Onyen credentials at https://selfservice.unc.edu
- Click the ListManager tab.
- Type in sils-jobs for example, and click the Visit button.
- Click My Account tab on the left.
- Then enter your subscribed email address, click OK and enter your ListServ password and click OK.
- If you don’t remember the password, type random characters click OK to access the “Email Password” button.
- Once logged in, under “Membership Type” change the pull-down menu from “Normal” to”Digest” and click to “Save Changes”.
Past Newsletters
2023 – pdf
2018 – pdf
2017 – pdf
2016 – pdf
2015 – pdf
2014 – pdf
2011 – pdf
2010 – pdf
2009 – pdf
2005 – pdf
2004 (Spring, Fall, Winter) – pdfs
2003 – pdf
2000 – pdf