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Endeavors, the online research magazine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recently published a series of retrospective features to show the advancement of projects that the...
Francesca Tripodi, Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), will deliver the keynote address, “Searching for Alternative Facts,” for the Responsible Machine...
This spring, the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) presented the 2020 Deborah Barreau Awards for Teaching Excellence to Assistant Professor Marijel (Maggie) Melo and Emily Roscoe (...
Alexandra Chassanoff and Colin Post, graduates of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) doctoral program, are the 2021 recipients of the Preservation Publication Award from the...
Francesca Tripodi, Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), was recently featured by Carolina’s online publication The Well in an article about “How to improve...
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), is writing two new books for Random House.
The first book, BASIC, will be a paradigm-shifting...
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life released the first episode of its new podcast, “Does Not Compute,” on June 22.
“If we want to fix our relationship to technology, we have to...
In a guest essay for the New York Times, Zeynep Tufekci, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), gives a thorough review of facts and theories surrounding the...
Katherine Wisser (MSLS ’00, PhD ’09), Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Science and Director of the Archives Concentration and Archives Certificate programs at Simmons...
The Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee serves as the SILS liaison with the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion and the Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion...
A $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support a new project at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) to develop software that can identify and redact...
As an aspiring physician and biology major at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Kailyn Sellers never envisioned herself coding, text mining, or conducting large scale data...
Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), is lead author on two recent articles examining how new technologies are shaping the future...
Important Dates:
Pre-Registration Advising week: October 11-21
Registration begins: October 22
Classes begin: January 10
Late Registration ends: January 16
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: January 17...
New SILS MSLS and MSIS Curriculum:
Over the past few years, SILS faculty, staff, students, and community partners have worked on a major revision to the master’s curriculum. All master’s students...
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Gary Marchionini
Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor
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Melanie Feinberg
Associate Professor
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Marijel (Maggie)...
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Gary Marchionini
Dean
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Yvonne Eadon
CITAP Postdoctoral Fellow
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Research In Action & Equity in the Making: How the EITM Lab Promotes Inclusivity in Public Makerspaces
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Francesca Tripodi, Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), recently published a paper examining why biographies about women who meet Wikipedia’s criteria for...
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), spent part of her summer interviewing musician and mogul Sean Combs and writing an expansive...
Help us celebrate the past and envision the future!
The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) will be celebrating 90 years of informed impact during the 2021-22 academic year.
We’re...
SILS Dean Gary Marchionini
Gary Marchionini, Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), sent the following message to SILS...
As part of its 90th anniversary celebration, the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) is hosting a series of faculty Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions, starting Friday, Aug. 20.
The...
