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VACLab wins best paper award at IEEE VIS 2019
November 4, 2019
The Visual Analysis and Communication Laboratory (VACLab) team from UNC-Chapel Hill won the Best Short Paper Award at the IEEE VIS 2019 Conference in October. VACLab researchers Arlene Chung, Bryce Morrow, and David Gotzfollowing Morrow’s presentatio…Read more
SILS Commencement moving to bigger venue in 2020
October 22, 2019
As many recent graduates are well aware, the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has outgrown the Great Hall for our School’s graduation ceremony. Each year, the graduating class has grown, limiting the number of guest each participa…Read more
Zeynep Tufekci: “Are China’s Tantrums Signs of Strength or Weakness?”
October 21, 2019
In her first column since becoming a contributing writer for The Atlantic, UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci discusses the potential reasons why China is demanding significant censorship from West…Read more
Zeynep Tufekci: “Are China’s Tantrums Signs of Strength or Weakness?”
October 21, 2019
In her first column since becoming a contributing writer for The Atlantic, UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci discusses the potential reasons why China is demanding significant censorship from West…Read more
Snow family bequest supports SILS, UNC Libraries, and the Rams Club
October 11, 2019
For All Kind: the Campaign for Carolina is the fifth fundraising campaign Claude Henry Snow Jr. ’76, ’78 (MA) and Sarah Turnbull Snow ’04 (MSIS) have contributed to in support of their alma mater — this time, in the form of a bequest. Claude Henry Sn…Read more
Three information science majors awarded scholarships from SILS
October 11, 2019
The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has awarded $1,000 scholarships to three information science majors, Jared Beavers, Shelby Poliachik, and Eshika Talukder. SILS annually confers the merit-based scholarships to recently admitte…Read moreBachelor of Science in Information Science (BSIS)
PhD candidate Megan Threats wins ALISE poster competition
October 2, 2019
Megan Threats, a doctoral candidate at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), won first place at the 2019 Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition, part of the Association for Library and Information Scienc…Read more Equity and Inclusion, Information Interaction and RetrievalDoctor of Philosophy in Information and Library Sciences
2019 Banned Books reading moves to Davis Courtyard
September 28, 2019
The Coalition of Youth Librarians (COYL) and UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) hosted the annual Banned Books Reading on Tuesday, Sept. 24. SILS master’s students were joined by SILS Associate Professor Brian Sturm and Wilson Libra…Read more
Zeynep Tufekci joins ‘The Atlantic’ as contributing writer
September 24, 2019
UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci is joining The Atlantic as a contributing writer, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced Sept. 23. In this role, Tufekci will write regularly for The Atlantic…Read more
“A Library where the Buildings and Stacks are the Planets and Moons”
September 20, 2019
Technology entrepreneur, innovator, and futurist Nova Spivack delivered the 2019 Lucille Kelling Henderson Lecture on Sept. 13, sharing stories and details of his quest to install durable archives around the globe and throughout the solar system to p…Read more