Researchers at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) examine how people, information, and technology shape our world. The lists below can help you connect with faculty based on their interests, current projects, and areas of expertise.
Overarching information issues
- Equitable Access: Hughes-Hassell, Missen, Tufekci, Melo, Rawson
- Management of information organizations: Jarrahi, Vargha (adjunct)
- Information policies: Marchionini, Gibson, Bergquist, Rajasekar
- Information Ethics: Gibson, Tufekci, Melo
- Research methods: Tufekci, Hemminger
- Information and library science education for underserved communities: Missen, Gibson, Melo
- Censorship, privacy, and freedom to read: Tufekci
- Diversity: Hughes-Hassell, Missen, Melo, Rawson
- User-centered design: Bergquist, Capra
Information and people
How people act as users of information and technology
How people act as users of information and technology
- Creating metadata (information about information): Shaw, Missen, Tibbo
- Social informatics: Jarrahi, Tufekci, Dasgupta
- Specific populations: Flaherty, Hughes-Hassell, Sturm, Missen, Gibson, Melo
- Human-computer interaction: Capra, Hemminger, Marchionini, Gotz, Arguello, Dasgupta
- Finding and using archival materials: Tibbo, Lee, Shaw, Anthony
- Information seeking: Capra, Marchionini, Hemminger, Gotz, Gibson, Arguello
- Literacy: Hughes-Hassell, Sturm, Dasgupta
- Information use: Flaherty, Gibson
- Visualization and visual analytics: Gotz, Bergquist, Mostafa, Hemminger
Information Contexts
Affecting people's interactions with information and information technologies
Affecting people's interactions with information and information technologies
- Academic libraries: Melo, Vargha (adjunct), Westbrooks (adjunct), Moran (honorary)
- School libraries: Hughes-Hassell, Sturm, Rawson
- Public libraries: Sturm, Hughes-Hassell, Tibbo, Flaherty, Bergquist, Gibson
- Libraries in the developing world: Missen
- Medical and health information: Flaherty, Gibson, Mostafa, Mazur, Yu
- Organizations: Jarrahi, Shaw, Rajasekar, Mazur
- Biomedical and health informatics: Hemminger, Gotz, Mostafa, Wang, Yu
- Archives: Tibbo, Lee, Anthony, Winget
- Digital Humanities: Shaw, Feinberg, Melo
- Community and civic organizations: Gibson, Missen, Melo
Information Organization
Tools that effectively represent and organize information
Tools that effectively represent and organize information
- Archival materials, records: Tibbo, Lee, Shaw, Anthony, Winget
- Classification and organization: Feinberg, Shaw, Winget
- Data analytics: Gotz, Wang
- Natural language processing: Haas, Shaw
- Ontologies and notational systems for bioinformatics: Hemminger
- Organizations and description, design of information collections: Feinberg, Shaw
- Metadata, ontologies, the semantic web: Rajasekar, Shaw
Information Tools and Technologies
Tools for the creation, storage, management, preservation, retrieval or use of information
Tools for the creation, storage, management, preservation, retrieval or use of information
- Information retrieval: Capra, Haas, Hemminger, Arguello, Wang
- Digital libraries and archives: Hemminger, Marchionini, Lee, Shaw, Missen, Rajasekar
- Digital forensics: Lee
- Self-archiving: Tibbo, Lee
- Policy-based data management systems: Rajasekar
- Information technologies for underserved populations: Missen, Melo
