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 more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. CERN hosted the celebration on March 12 in partnership with the … Read more
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. CERN hosted the celebration on March 12 in partnership with the World … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
