news@sils February 2016

Nominations invited for SILS teaching excellence awards
SILS students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit nominations for the 2016 Deborah Barreau Award for Teaching Excellence. SILS will recognize two outstanding faculty members, one full-time and one adjunct. Click to read more.

• Interactive Visual Discovery in Event Analytics Electronic Health Records and Other Applications - Special presentation by Ben Shneiderman - February 22, 2:30 p.m., Manning 01
• 2016 OCLC/Kilgour Lecture - Ben Shneiderman, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, will share insights from his latest book, The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations, on Monday, February 22, at 10:30 a.m. in the Pleasant’s Family Room of Wilson Library
• 2016 Steinfirst Lecture in Children's Literature - Matt de la Peña, 2016 John Newbery Medal Winner and NY Times bestselling author, will deliver the Susan Steinfirst Memorial Lecture in Children's Literature, "Reading (and Writing) from the 'Wrong Side of the Tracks',” on Sunday, March 13, at 3 p.m. at the main branch of the Durham County Library.
• Health Informatics Seminar: "FHIR–Holy Grail of Interoperability" - February 24, 4-5 p.m., HSL 227
• Health Informatics Seminar: "Using Medicare Data to Estimate Costs of Dementia at End of Life" - March 2, 4-5 p.m., HSL 227
• Study Abroad and Your Career - March 4, 12-1 p.m., Manning 01
• CHIIR 2016 - March 13-17, 2016, Chapel Hill

• Learn more about the Lenovo Tech World internships
  On Thursday, February 18, at 5 p.m. in the Freedom Forum of Carroll Hall, Lenovo Vice President for Global Communications Jeff Shafer will tell UNC students about an exciting summer opportunity with Lenovo in RTP and either Beijing or San Francisco. This is a paid opportunity with all travel and job expenses covered.
• Applying Health Informatics to Improve Depression Care for Patients with Diabetes
  Please join us for a special presentation, “Applying Health Informatics to Improve Depression Care Delivery for Patients with Diabetes,” by Haomiao Jun on Friday, February 19, at 9 a.m. in Manning 01.
• SILS Seminar: “When is a Rock not a Rock? Exploiting Ontologies for Personalized Search and Recommendations”
  We hope you can join us this Friday, February 19, at 12 p.m. in Manning 208 for "'When is a Rock not a Rock? Exploiting Ontologies for Personalized Search and Recommendations" by Dr. Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas.

• Scholarships enable master's students to study in London and Prague
  Bethany Greene and Kimberley Henze will have the opportunity to study international librarianship in Europe for two weeks in May thanks to the Baker & Taylor Scholarships for SILS summer seminars. Click to read more.
• SILS student receives grant to attend ER&L Conference
  MSIS student Anne Ligon Harding recently won a student travel grant to attend the Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L) Conference April 3-6 at the University of Texas at Austin. Click to read more.
• SILS PhD student wins honorable mention in poster competition
  SILS doctoral student Samantha J. Kaplan received an honorable mention in the ASIS&T SIG HLTH Best Student Poster Award Competition. Click to read more about the research presented.
• HSL highlights book by SILS PhD student
  The UNC Health Sciences Library (HSL) recently published a story on Emily Vardell and her new book The Medical Library Association Guide to Answering Questions about the Affordable Care Act. Vardell is a former National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow at the HSL.Click to read more.

The next issue of news@sils will be sent on Wednesday, March 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 March 14.