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Prague summer seminar deadline extended to April 1
March 18, 2019
The deadline to register for the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Prague Summer Seminar has been extended to April 1. The two-week seminar offers lectures and tours related to librarianship in a country that deals with a history o…Read more
Zeynep Tufekci weighs in on the Web’s 30th Anniversary
March 16, 2019
UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci was one of the featured speakers at the 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web at CERN in Switzerland. Lou Montulli, Zeynep Tufekci, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Caill…Read more
Zeynep Tufekci weighs in on the Web’s 30th Anniversary
March 16, 2019
UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci was one of the featured speakers at the 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web at CERN in Switzerland. Lou Montulli, Zeynep Tufekci, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Caill…Read more
Meredith D. Clark to deliver Kilgour Lecture on race and representation in digital counternarratives
February 28, 2019
Scholar, teacher, and “recovering journalist,” Meredith D. Clark will deliver the 2019 OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture, hosted by the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), on April 26 at 11:30 am. The title of her talk is “Black Wom…Read more
Two SILS faculty members named finalists for iConference 2019 best paper award
February 28, 2019
UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Melanie Feinberg and Assistant Professor Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi are authors on two of the five papers named as finalists for the best full research paper award at iConference…Read more
SILS plays role in historic effort to place archive on the moon
February 27, 2019
A copy of the Billion Year Archive, a vast collection of human knowledge recorded on a small but durable disc, has been hurtling toward the moon on the spacecraft Beresheet since its launch on Feb. 22. Paul Jones, Professor at the UNC School of Infor…Read more Digital Curation
Cal Lee discusses editorial goals for ‘American Archivist’ on archives-themed podcast
February 22, 2019
Cal Lee, Professor at UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and editor of American Archivist, recently talked with the Archives in Context podcast, sharing his vision for the journal, advice for peer-reviewed journal writing, and strat…Read more
Miana Breed and Betsy Ford awarded scholarships to attend MER Conference
February 21, 2019
Two students from the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) have been awarded scholarships to attend the 2019 Managing Electronic Records (MER) Conference. Miana Breed, Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS) student, and Betsy For…Read more
Amelia Gibson discusses her research in Focus on Carolina segment
February 20, 2019
Amelia Gibson, Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), recently talked with Focus on Carolina, a WCHL radio program, for a two-part segment about her research. Gibson studies how autistic people and their fami…Read more
Zeynep Tufekci: “The Imperfect Truth About Finding Facts in a World of Fakes”
February 18, 2019
In her most recent column in Wired, UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci discusses how the loss of credibility in the online era has created a need for digital verification by means of cryptographic…Read more