NEWS @SILSAugust 2015 |
![]() SILS hosted its annual orientation for new graduate students on Monday, August 17. The day included breakfast, lunch, and a variety of presentations, as well as recognition for Elfreda Chatman Research Award and Beta Phi Mu Scholarship recipients. Click to read more. |
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![]() Melanie Feinberg is a classificationist whose research approach combines design with the humanities. Her work focuses on learning how to read and write databases to complement our engineering and mining of them. Click to read more. |
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![]() SILS PhD student Kathy Brennan presented her research abstract, “User relevance assessment of personal finance information: What is the role of cognitive abilities?," at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Doctoral Consortium in Knoxville, Tenn. Click to read more. |
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![]() Gerald Holmes (MSLS '85) has received the 2015 Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Distinguished Service to the Library Profession Award. Click to read more. |
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![]() SILS Professor Arcot Rajasekar discussed the DataBridge project with The Chronicle of Higher Education, explaining how the project is working to create a one-stop shop for data sets that would otherwise be lost to the public. Click to read more. |
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![]() Tammy Cox, assistant dean of administration for SILS, was one of three outstanding UNC Employee Forum delegates to receive the Kay W. Hovious Award, which recognizes exceptional service to staff at Carolina. Click to read more. |
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Justin Kreft’s research on body camera data featured in ‘endeavors’ Justin Kreft, a master’s student studying public administration and information science at UNC, is collecting information to help agencies determine how much data they can expect from police body cameras and how to best organize the files. Click to read more. |
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Submit news for fall print newsletter |
If you have any news to share for the fall SILS print newsletter, please send an email to contactsils@unc.edu by August 31, 2015. Please specify alumni update, faculty update, staff update, or student update in the subject line as applicable. Received an award or honor? Launched a new project or business? New job? Promotion? Career Change? New baby? Have you written a book? Let us know! |
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Editor's Note |
The next edition of news@sils will be sent on Wednesday, September 16. If you have an event or news item you would like to have featured, be sure to submit it through the event form or in an email to kpearl@email.unc.edu by September 14. |