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 … Read more
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. Eight Carolina faculty members are chosen for the program each year … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
