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Marijel (Maggie) Melo

Marijel (Maggie) Melo

Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science


Expertise and Interests: Innovation, critical maker culture, and the development of equitable and inclusive collaborative learning spaces (e.g. makerspaces) in academic libraries.

Jerry Micelle

Contracts and Grants Pre-award Officer


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Prithima Reddy Mosaly

Post-Doc Research Associate of Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP)


Expertise and Interests: Human Factors Engineering.

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Narayanamoorthy Nanditha

Post-Doc Research Associate of Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP)


Expertise and Interests: Critical Digital Studies, Gender Studies, and Social Justice.

Joyce L. Ogburn

Professor of Practice


Expertise and Interests: Financial information, Finance and Literacy

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Darby C. Orcutt

Adjunct Faculty


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Cristóbal Palmer

Cristóbal Palmer

Technical Director of ibiblio


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Eleni Papadoyannis

Doctoral & Special Programs Coordinator


Expertise and Interests: Assists the following programs: PhD in Information and Library Sciences MPS in Digital Curation and Management Certificate in Applied Data Science Evidence-Based Practice course Study Abroad liaison

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Rital Patel

Carolina Technology Associate (CaTA)


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Ericka Patillo

Ericka Patillo

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Practice, UNC School of Information and Library Science


Expertise and Interests: Academic libraries; Library management and administration; Organizational behavior and culture; LIS education; Music librarianship.

William (Willie) Payne

William (Willie) Payne

Assistant Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science


Expertise and Interests: Human-computer interaction, creative computing, accessibility, STEM learning, design research, participatory design.

Ryan Platin

Student Business Coordinator


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Griffin Powell

PhD Student


Expertise and Interests: Analog Material Digitization, Human Perceptions of Libraries, Role of Libraries in Society, Oral Histories

Jiaming Qu

PhD Student


Expertise and Interests: Information Retrieval, Human-Computer Interaction

Arcot Rajasekar

Arcot Rajasekar

Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science; Chief Scientist, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)


Expertise and Interests: Data grids, digital libraries, persistent archives and artificial intelligence.

Casey H. Rawson

Casey H. Rawson

Teaching Assistant Professor, MSLS Program Coordinator, UNC School of Information and Library Science


Expertise and Interests: Teacher-librarian collaboration in STEM content areas, LIS education, and equity and inclusion in youth services librarianship.