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SILS 2015 Spring Commencement Honors Graduates,
Recognizes Outstanding Faculty Member and Alumnus |
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The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted its annual spring commencement on Sunday, May 10. In addition to honoring BSIS, MSIS, MSLS, and PhD graduates, the event also included the presentation of the 2015 Deborah Barreau Award for Teaching Excellence to Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi and the 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award to Tim Bucknall. Click to read more.
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| SILS Professor Zeynep Tufekci Named Andrew Carnegie Fellow |
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 Zeynep Tufekci, assistant professor at SILS, has been named an inaugural Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for her proposal “Big Data and the Algorithmic Threat to Democracy and Civil Society.” The new annual fellowship program provides up to $200,000 to scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals in the humanities and social sciences. Click to read more.
Recent Interviews, Columns, and Essays
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| Carolina Academic Library Associates (CALAs) Selected for 2015-16 |
| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library has selected its newest class of Carolina Academic Library Associates (CALAs) for the 2015-2016 academic year. CALAs work 20 hours per week in their assigned department, for which they receive a salary, tuition awards, health insurance, and professional development opportunities. Click to read more. |
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| Google I/O Extended Coming to UNC-Chapel Hill |
| Part watch party, part developer workshop scheduled to coincide with the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, the May 28 event will include code labs, livestreaming of I/O, and a welcome from Chapel Hill office Googlers. Registration has closed for the event, but volunteers are still needed. Click to read more. |
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| Next eGranary will Include TED Talks |
| TED Talks are about to spread even further thanks to a collaboration with the WiderNet Project, a non-profit founded and directed by SILS associate professor Cliff Missen. All 1,900 TED Talks will be included in the next release of WiderNet's eGranary Digital Library. Click to read more. |
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| MSLS Student Kai Ewing Delivers Talk on Transgender Needs and the Academic Library |
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Kai Ewing (MSLS ’15) delivered a presentation titled “Transgender Needs and the Academic Library” on May 7 at the Davis Library at UNC-Chapel Hill. The program was sponsored by the University Library Diversity Education and Programming Committee. Click here to open a PPT file with slides from the presentation.
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| In Memoriam |
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| Upcoming Events |
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| SILS and UNC Libraries Reunion at ALA Conference |
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If you're attending the 2015 American Library Association Conference or if you'll be in the San Francisco area on June 28, please join the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and UNC Libraries for a reception at Bar Norcini at the Villa Florence Hotel from 5-7 p.m. All alumni, faculty, staff, friends, and students are invited to attend. Click to read more.
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| SILS Project Fair, April 10, 2015 |
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Autonomous Weapons: Information Technology and the Arms Race
A Talk by Mark Gubrud, PhD, April 7, 2015 |
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| Editor's Note |
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The next edition of news@sils will be sent on Wednesday, June 17. 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 June 15.
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