New research center gets local and national media coverage

July 31, 2019

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently announced the creation of the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP), a new research iniatiative led by faculty from the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS…Read more

Matthew Johnson (MSLS ’18) wins ASIS&T’s Pratt Severn Award

July 31, 2019

Matthew Weirick Johnson (MSLS ’18), graduate of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award from the Association for Information Science &…Read more

ENABLE boot camp introduces undergraduates to opportunities in biomedical and health informatics

July 30, 2019

Nine undergraduates spent seven weeks on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus this summer, learning about the emerging field of biomedical and health informatics (BMHI). The 2019 Health Informatics Data Analytics and Visualization (…Read more

Health Informatics

Paul Jones talks with American Libraries about being a ‘Lunar Librarian’ and other career milestones

July 27, 2019

Paul Jones, UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Professor, was profiled as a “Newsmaker” by American Libraries in July. In the Q&A, Jones discusses his contribution to the Lunar Library, a 30-million-page archive launched to the…Read more

Zeynep Tufekci on “Bringing research up to speed with the challenges of the digital era”

July 25, 2019

On July 22, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced a $50 million investment to develop a new field of research around technology’s impact on democracy, including a $5 million gift to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to cr…Read more

New Carolina research center to address 21st century questions on digital information

July 22, 2019

For the first time, social media surpassed newspapers as a news source for Americans last year. Nine in 10 Americans say they get at least some of their news digitally, and U.S. consumers are expected to spend more time looking at their mobile device…Read more

PhD candidate Megan Threats awarded Garfield Dissertation Fellowship

July 16, 2019

Megan Threats, a doctoral candidate at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been awarded a 2019 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Beta Phi Mu national honor society. SILS Doctoral Candidate Megan Threa…Read more

Information Interaction and Retrieval
Doctor of Philosophy in Information and Library Sciences, Doctoral

Project READY releases free online racial equity curriculum for youth services librarians

June 19, 2019

After three years of collaboration, investigation, and development, researchers at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) have released a free online curriculum to help youth services library staff learn to create more inclusive and…Read more

Equity and Inclusion

Students taking Systems Analysis at SILS contribute to campus printing upgrade

June 18, 2019

Students taking the INLS 582 Systems Analysis class at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) this spring worked with UNC ITS Teaching and Learning to improve the Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) printing process on campus. “We w…Read more

Paul Jones: “Science behind the ‘Jeopardy!’ giant killer”

June 12, 2019

Emma Boettcher is a user experience librarian who won at “Jeopardy!” ending the rich run of James Holzhauer. (Google, or Siri, or Alexa): “What is a user experience librarian?” Just answering this question can be a challenge to a machine – and to a h…Read more