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 Retrieval
Doctor 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

Wei Gao (MSIS ’01), VP at Amazon, recognized at Asian American Luminary Awards

September 16, 2019

Wei Gao (MSIS ’01), alumna of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and Vice President, Technical Advisor to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, was honored at the Asian American Luminary Awards (AALA) ceremony on Sept. 15 in Bellevue, Wash. Or…Read more

CITAP recruiting for tenure-track position

September 9, 2019

The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is searching for an outstanding assistant professor to conduct research and teach in the UNC School of Information and Library Science…Read more

CITAP recruiting for tenure-track position

September 9, 2019

The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is searching for an outstanding assistant professor to conduct research and teach in the UNC School of Information and Library Science…Read more

DataAware introduces high school students to health data analytics

August 30, 2019

Instead of hanging with friends or binging on Netflix, 10 high school students spent part of their summers analyzing data and tackling health care challenges through the DataAware program hosted by the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP). Data…Read more

Health Informatics

Mary Grace Flaherty featured in ‘Public Libraries’ magazine

August 30, 2019

In a recent interview with Public Libraries, Mary Grace Flaherty, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), discusses some of the findings and recommendations she shares in her book Promoting Individual and Comm…Read more

Anthony Holderied named Director of EPA-RTP Library

August 26, 2019

Anthony Holderied has been appointed Director of the Environmental Protection Agency Library in Research Triangle Park, effective August 26. Holderied had been Assistant Director of the EPA-RTP Library since 2013  and has 14 years of professional lib…Read more