SILS Distinguished Alumna Irene Owens has created a fund to support new students of color and those interested in issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS). The fund will make it … Read more

Melanie Feinberg, associate professor in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, has been awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship by the European Commission. The fellowship enables experienced researchers to conduct projects outside of their home countries with the goal … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) tied for first place on the 2018 QS World University Rankings for library and information management programs. SILS and the University of Sheffield in the U.K. had … Read more

Meg Medina, bestselling Latina author of children’s and young adult fiction, will give the Susan Steinfirst Community Lecture in Children’s Literature on Sunday, April 8, at 6:30 p.m. at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro. The lecture, hosted by the University of North Carolina … Read more

Graduate-level research is almost always mentally challenging, but Natalie Ornat found pouring through documents for her master’s paper emotionally taxing as well. Ornat, who graduated from the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Read more

Before Nicole Pawelski began contemplating a professional career in archives, she made a very personal connection with an online archive affiliated with the Near East Relief Society (NER), which helped rescue children, including Pawelski’s paternal grandfather, during the Armenian Genocide … Read more

This summer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) students participated in a brand new international seminar that took them to the booming tech cities of Berlin and Dublin. Led by SILS professor Paul … Read more

With the support of scholarships funded by Baker and Taylor, three University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) master’s students gained professional and international insights through three different SILS summer seminars in Europe … Read more

Zeynep Tufekci, associate professor in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was the focus of a PBS Newshour segment that aired on June 10. Tufekci discussed her new book, … Read more

Traveling to Las Vegas earlier this month, Rashnil Chaturvedi had his sights set on a big prize, but he and his teammates were not relying on luck. They brought months of in-depth data analysis, a sophisticated modeling approach and a … Read more