2019 News
December 27, 2019
UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) faculty and staff know that our students are pretty great every day and have been awesome way more than 19 times this year, but here are 19 quick summaries of events where they shined or recognition they earned between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2019....
December 21, 2019
Congratulations to the UNC School of Information and Library Science winter graduates! SILS grads from August 2019, December 2019, and May 2020 will be recognized at the SILS Spring Commencement on May 7, 2020.
Bachelor of Science in Information Science (BSIS)
Ehinome Jason Akhimien
Gregory...
December 20, 2019
The UNC School of Information and Library Science had another great year in 2019.
Watch this short video with some of the most memorable news and events.
December 19, 2019
Friends and alumni who wish to make a gift to the UNC School of Information and Library Science for 2019 should take note of important year-end deadlines to ensure your gift qualifies as tax deductible contribution for this year.
Credit card gifts can be made by phone (919-537-3818) until 2 pm EST...
December 6, 2019
The faculty of the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) condemn the recent decision to give UNC Chapel Hill funds to a private organization for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the Confederacy.
To fund an organization with documented ties to white supremacist groups implies UNC...
December 3, 2019
Evelyn H. Daniel, PhD, Dean and Professor Emerita of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), passed away on November 24, 2019. Click here to read her obituary.
Dr. Evelyn Daniel at the SILS 75th anniversary celebration in 2007.
SILS Dean Gary Marchionini shared the following...
November 19, 2019
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is searching for outstanding candidates to fill the roles of executive director and program associate.
The Center, which launched in July, includes principal faculty, postdoctoral...
November 14, 2019
Michael Doucette, a senior double majoring in information science and interdisciplinary studies, discusses his research and the journey he took to get there with Endeavors.
“I got involved with a lab in the psychology department, which allowed me to better understand the research process. At the...
November 14, 2019
In a recent article in The Atlantic, UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci paints a chilling picture of the Hong Kong protests, one full of fear, violence, and without an end in sight.
Tufekci walked the street among the protesters, interviewing...
November 7, 2019
Carolina’s Well Said podcast recently interviewed UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Professor Paul Jones and RENCI Senior Research Software Architect Michael Shoffner about the first radio broadcast streamed over the internet on Nov. 7, 1994. Shoffner was a DJ at WXYC, Carolina’s...
November 6, 2019
The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) will host a talk by author, professor, and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom on Tuesday, Dec. 3, from 10-11:00 am in the Pleasants Family Room at Wilson Library.
Tressie...
November 6, 2019
Faculty and graduate students from the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) shared research and received recogniztion at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, October 19-23 in Melbourne, Australia.
Matthew Johnson (MSLS ’18) was recognized as winner of the 2019 Pratt Severn Best Student...
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 Gotz
following Morrow's presentation of their award-winning paper at
IEEE VIS 2019...
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 participant can bring.
SILS Student Services has worked...
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 Western companies in the absence of a real threat....
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 admitted Bachelor of Science in Information Science (...
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 Snow Jr. ’76, ’78 (MA) and Sarah Turnbull Snow ’04...
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 Science Education (ALISE) conference. Threats’ poster...
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 Library Director Maria Estorino to share passages from...
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 about the intersection of technology, politics,...
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 preserve the memory of humanity.
“The idea is to...
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.
Organized by the Chinese Institute of Engineers/USA...
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 (SILS).
The Center includes principal faculty,...
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).
DataAware, short for Data Analytics for Teen...
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 Community Health at the Library (ALA Editions 2018)....
August 26, 2019
Anthony Holderied
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 librarian experience. Prior to...
August 22, 2019
Elliott Hauser, doctoral candidate at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information.
Elliott Hauser addresses participants in this year's NSF
Cyber...
August 22, 2019
David Gotz, UNC School of Information and Library Science Associate Professor and Carolina Health Informatics Program Assistant Director, has been selected as a 2019-20 RTIUx Scholar.
Dr. David Gotz in the SILS Library.
The RTIUx scholars program provides support for distinguished academic...
August 19, 2019
The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) welcomed incoming master’s and doctoral students on Aug. 19 in Manning Hall. Students gathered in Manning 209, the building’s largest classroom, in the morning to hear from SILS Dean Gary Marchionini, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Ron...
August 2, 2019
The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) hosted its second National Science Foundation (NSF) Cyber Carpentry Workshop this summer. The program brings doctoral students and post-doctoral associates to Carolina’s campus for two weeks to learn best practices, tools, and processes for...
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), UNC School of Media and Journalism, UNC...
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 & Technology (ASIS&T).
Matthew Johnson (MSLS...
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 (HiDAV) boot camp offered students hands-on...
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 moon this spring, and his 40 years of work in...
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 create the Center for Information, Technology, and...
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 devices than at their televisions by the end of the...
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 Threats
Threats is a 2011 graduate of Michigan State...
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 equitable programming. Accessible at ready.web....
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 wanted to apply systems analysis tools to solve an...
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 human. But this question is exactly what we ask at...
June 10, 2019
Emma Boettcher (MSIS ’16), an alumna of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), became a media sensation in early June after her defeat of “Jeopardy!” phenomenon James Holzhauer. Before Boettcher’s debut, Holzhauer had enjoyed a 32-game winning streak and amassed $2.46 million,...
May 31, 2019
Megan Threats and Kristen Bowen, doctoral students at the UNC School of Information and Library Science, are two of the four PhD students selected from a nationwide search to co-teach modules on research design and programming for the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3).
Megan Threats and Kristen...
May 31, 2019
In a recent article for WIRED, UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci highlights the ways that companies are using connectivity and embedded intelligence to increase profits by limiting consumer options.
“Today, we may think we own things because...
May 31, 2019
Amelia Gibson, Assistant Professor in the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), gave the keynote address at the Big Ten Academic Alliance Library Conference on May 23 at the University of Michigan. The 2019 conference theme was Equitable Access: Accessibility Driving Innovation in...
May 30, 2019
Sofía Becerra-Licha (MSLS ’12), alumna of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been appointed lead archivist at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Sofia Becerra-Licha (MSLS ’12)
The Kennedy Center created the position to help organize...
May 30, 2019
Through his work at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G), his service to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his involvement with professional library organizations, Gerald Holmes (MSLS '85) has encouraged individuals from underrepresented backgrounds to choose...
May 30, 2019
Rose Timmons Dawson (MSLS '86) began her library career the same year that Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a federal holiday. Dawson created three different programs to help educate young patrons about the civil rights leader. As the first African-American children’s librarian in an area of...
May 16, 2019
David Gotz, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and Assistant Director of the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP), was recently interviewed for WCHL’s Focus Carolina program.
In the radio segment, Gotz discusses how his data visualization research...
May 14, 2019
Nadia Clifton demonstrates her 360-degree tour
of Wilson Library at the SILS Project Fair.
Nadia Clifton, who graduated from the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) on May 12, was recently featured on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill homepage and website. The story...
May 14, 2019
The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) hosted its annual spring commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 12, to celebrate its Bachelor of Science in Information Science (BSIS), Master of Science in Information Science (MSIS), Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS), and Doctor of...
May 2, 2019
Daniel Russell, Google's Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness in Mountain View gave a talk at UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) on April 12. Russell shared what he has learned from teaching thousands of people how to find what they are looking for with...
May 1, 2019
The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) announced today that Anne Webb, currently Assistant Dean of Advancement at the UNC School of Nursing, will join SILS in August as the School’s first Deputy Director of Development. Webb will work in close partnership with Director of...
April 29, 2019
The third annual Symposium on Information for Social Good, hosted by the UNC School of Information of Information and Library Science (SILS) on April 26, was a tremendous success. Several panel sessions were standing-room only and the 2019 Kilgour Lecture and keynote address by Dr. Meredith Clark,...
April 23, 2019
In her latest New York Times op-ed, UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci discussed the pros and cons of data inference, how such tool can aid public health, but also impede an individual’s ability to get a job, insurance, housing, and more.
Tufekci...
April 23, 2019
Yukun Yang explains his research.
The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) hosted its fifth annual Project Fair, showcasing the work of graduate and undergraduate students April 17 in Manning Hall.
Students shared their poster presentations and demonstrations with other students,...
April 22, 2019
UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Distinguished Alumnus Robert "Bob" Martin (PhD '88) was profiled as part of the University’s 225th anniversary retrospective series, which highlighted Tar Heels who have made impact on campus, communities, the state, the nation, and the world....
April 19, 2019
The SILS Library hosted its annual Edible Book Contest on April 12. Click on the Adobe Spark Page below or visit https://spark.adobe.com/page/URhMsuOqOLIyZ/ for additional details and photos of the delectable creations from 2019, as well as some previous contests.
April 10, 2019
In its first year of participation, the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) blew past its goal of 40 donors during the #GiveUNC event on April 9. More than 60 SILS alumni and friends contributed, unlocking an $8,000 challenge gift to bring the grand total for the day to $22,730....
April 10, 2019
Megan Threats, a doctoral candidate at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), is one of 150 doctoral students in the U.S. and Canada selected to receive a $15,000 P.E.O. Scholar Award for the 2019-20 academic year. She was sponsored by Chapter CN of Chapel Hill, N.C.
SILS...
April 9, 2019
Jordan Wrigley, a second-year Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS) student at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been awarded a $5,000 scholarship from the Medical Library Association (MLA).
MSLS student Jordan Wrigley
She will accept the award in May at the MLA...
April 2, 2019
In her most recent column in Wired, UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci discussed the need to stop excessive data collection practices for machine learning (ML), and to develop privacy-preserving ML methods.
Tufekci talked about the trade-offs...
March 30, 2019
The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) will be well represented at the 2019 iConference in Washington, D.C.
Monday, April 1
1:30pm-3:00pm – “Automating Documentation: A Critical Perspective into the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Documentation” paper presentation by...
March 28, 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, has been named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology by the National Diversity Council. The list features executive female leaders in...
March 27, 2019
The application deadline for the NSF Cyber Carpentry Workshop: Data Lifecycle Training has been extended to April 15, 2019.
The workshop will take place July 15-26, 2019 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Travel and accommodations will be provided for accepted participants, and a...
March 26, 2019
UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Assistant Professor Mary Grace Flaherty has received a Lindberg Research Fellowship from the Medical Library Association (MLA) to study how information use affects timely diagnosis and health services utilization by patients with the alpha-gal...
March 21, 2019
Author, school librarian, and UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) alumna Mélina Mangal (MSLS '94) is visiting Chapel Hill in early April to share her new book, The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just. She will read and discuss the picture book biography at the...
March 20, 2019
Megan Oakleaf (PhD '06)
Megan Oakleaf (PhD ’06), alumna of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) is the winner of
the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section’s (IS) Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award. The award recognizes a librarian who...
March 20, 2019
Elaine L. Westbrooks, Vice Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian, issued a statement on March 20 regarding the University of California (UC) system’s decision to cancel their $50 million subscription deal with publishing giant Elsevier.
“I support and applaud the UC system for...
March 19, 2019
Julie Stivers (MSLS’15), alumna of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and current librarian at Mount Vernon Middle School in Wake County, N.C., has been named a 2019 “Mover & Shaker” by Library Journal. Click here to read the full profile.
SILS alumna Julie Stivers...
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 of monarchy, empire, Communism, and the meeting of...
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 Cailliau,
Jean-François Groff, and Frédéric Donck at...
March 9, 2019
The UNC School of Information and Library Science will participate in this year’s #GiveUNC, a 24-hour virtual gathering of Tar Heel alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students, and friends to give back and support Carolina.
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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 Women Tried to Tell Y'all: Race, Representation, and...
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 2019. The Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper...
February 27, 2019
Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has won the Best Article Award for 2018 from Business Horizons. “Artificial intelligence and the future of work: Human-AI symbiosis in organizational decision making,” appeared in the July–...
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 Information and Library Science (SILS), helped curate...
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 strategies to get involved in professional...
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 Ford, Master of Science in Information Science (MSIS...
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 families seek and exchange information in their local...
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 digital signing or blockchain databases.
“When...
February 13, 2019
Christopher “Cal” Lee, Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been selected for the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Academic Leadership Program (ALP) for 2019-20.
Professor Cal Lee
Eight Carolina faculty members are chosen for the program each year based...
February 7, 2019
The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) will host the fifth annual SILS Project Fair on Wednesday, April 17. Visit the project fair’s website for more information and to register by April 10: http://silsprojectfair.web.unc.edu/
The fair is designed to highlight the work of our...
February 6, 2019
Prospective students can get a better idea of what it’s like to major in information science at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) by watching a series of videos now available on the SILS YouTube channel.
Fourteen current students and recent graduates from the Bachelor of...
February 6, 2019
Daniel Russell, Google Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness in Mountain View, will deliver a talk titled “The Joy of Finding Out: Adventures in Teaching People How to Search” at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) on April 12.
Dan Russell
Russell...
February 6, 2019
All students, faculty, and staff of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) are invited to submit nominations for the 2019 Deborah Barreau Award for Teaching Excellence.
SILS will recognize two outstanding faculty - one full-time faculty member and one adjunct faculty member - who...
February 1, 2019
SILS faculty members gave brief talks on their teaching, research interests, and projects on Sept. 28 as part of SILS’ first 5-Minute Madness event.
You can watch the talks on the SILS YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/uncsils and click on the SILS Faculty Research playlist. Not every current...
January 30, 2019
UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci discusses the lack of a functioning digital micropayment system on the internet and the vulnerabilities of the Internet of Things (IoT) in her latest articles published in Wired and Scientific American. Her book...
January 25, 2019
When Joyce Obgurn (MSLS ’82) began graduate study at Carolina in 1980, she embarked on a journey of discovery. Chapel Hill was the perfect place for someone who, as Ogburn puts it, is naturally inquisitive. Couple that curiosity with a cutting-edge education from the UNC School of Information and...
January 17, 2019
ENABLE is now accepting applications for its second Health Informatics Data Analytics and Visualization (HiDAV) summer boot camp, a seven-week program for undergraduate students.
The face-to-face boot camp will expose students to Biomedical Health Informatics (BMHI) principles and encourage them to...
January 16, 2019
As part of her spring 2019 special topics course “Disability Informatics and Information,” UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Assistant Professor Amelia Gibson has scheduled a series of guest lectures that are open to the public. Several of the presenters will deliver their talks...
January 14, 2019
A story posted by University World News on Jan. 11 provides a detailed look at the impact made by the WiderNet Project’s eGranary Digital Library on 10 university campuses in Somalia. With internet access still “slow, unreliable, and expensive” for universities in the Puntland region of Somalia,...
January 4, 2019
When Marcia Duncan Lowry and Charles Lowry enthusiastically accepted the Dean’s invitation to co-chair the SILS Campaign, they were equally clear that they’d serve in this role for half the campaign. Being that we are at the campaign’s midpoint, Duncan Smith has accepted Dean Gary Marchionini’s...
January 3, 2019
Join SILS in the ‘city that never sleeps’ to explore special libraries, performing arts archives, the financial industry’s information management, and public librarianship initiatives through the New York Public Library (NYPL) system. Both graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to...
January 3, 2019
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a grant for $1.1 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project to develop a toolset that will enable institutions to more quickly and efficiently process emails included in born-digital collections. The UNC School of...
January 2, 2019
Marijel (Maggie) Melo, UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Assistant Professor, talks about earning her PhD from the Rhetoric, Composition, and Teaching of English Program at the University of Arizona and how that journey led her to SILS in a recently posted news story by the UofA...
