Mohammad Jarrahi awarded NC Policy Collaboratory funding for research on COVID-19’s impact on gig workers

July 15, 2020

Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been awarded funding from the NC Policy Collaboratory for a project that will document the impact of COVID-19 on gig workers and their abil…Read more

Sayamindu Dasgupta awarded NSF grant for project to foster data literacies among young people

July 8, 2020

Sayamindu Dasgupta, Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a two-year project aimed at fostering data literacies in middle-school and hi…Read more

Book by Sandra Hughes-Hassell offers guidance on fostering equity through collection management

July 7, 2020

This summer, ALA Editions published an updated and revised second edition of Collection Management for Youth by UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Professor Sandra Hughes-Hassell. The book offers models and tools that will help libr…Read more

Equity and Inclusion

Maggie Melo awarded $715K NSF grant for research on creating more equitable makerspaces

July 6, 2020

Maggie Melo, Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study how the physical and affective characteristics of makerspaces encourage or inhi…Read more

Equity and Inclusion

Democracy Works co-founder Kathryn Peters named executive director of CITAP

June 29, 2020

The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has selected Kathryn Peters as its first executive director, effective July 6. Kathryn Peters has been named executive director of CITA…Read more

Support SILS students through #GiveUNC

June 16, 2020

Today, June 16, the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) joins with units across campus for #GiveUNC, an opportunity to share stories about what makes Carolina so special and encourage our alumni and friends to show their support. Our…Read more

Sociologist and media scholar Francesca Tripodi joining SILS and CITAP

June 9, 2020

Dr. Francesca Tripodi Sociologist and media scholar Francesca Tripodi will join the faculty of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) as an assistant professor, effective July 1. Tripodi’s research examines the relationship between…Read more

Message to the SILS community from Dean Gary Marchionini

June 2, 2020

UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Dean Gary Marchionini shared the following message with SILS students, faculty, staff, and alumni via email on June 2. I am pained, outraged, and frustrated by the latest killing of an unarmed blac…Read more

Zeynep Tufekci advocates mask wearing in open letter to U.S. Governors and op-eds in USA Today and The Atlantic

May 18, 2020

UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci joined with over 100 experts – including two Nobel laureates, the editors-in-chief of Nature and The Lancet, and medical and scientific leaders from Harvard, Stan…Read more

SILS 2020 Commencement Speaker Jason Griffey (MSLS’04) offers insights and advice to graduates

May 14, 2020

Jason Griffey (MSLS’04), alumnus of the UNC School of School of Information and Library Science (SILS), was invited to deliver the SILS Spring Commencement address at the Dean E. Smith Center on May 7. Though the SILS ceremony and other University gr…Read more