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Title: SILS Board of Visitors Spring Update


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SILS Board of Visitors Spring Update
  • Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, Dean
  • School of Information and Library Science
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • April 10, 2006

2
  • U.S. News and World Report ranked SILS the 1
    Library and Information Studies School in the
    nation.

3
  • Kiplinger's ranks UNC at Chapel Hill the
    nations best public campus.

4
New Faculty Staff
  • Mark Winston joined SILS as associate professor
    on January 1.
  • Meg McKee is SILS student services assistant.

5
Visiting International Scholars
  • Eva Ma Méndez Rodríguez from Spain
  • Gordana Stokic from Serbia

6
Faculty and Staff News
  • Gary Marchionini appointed to National
    Library of Medicine committee

Barbara Moran receives Fulbright Senior
Specialists Award
7
Faculty and Staff News
  • Jane Greenberg appointed to DCMI Advisory
    Board and Tools Working Group.

Diane Kelly won the Eugene Garfield-ALISE
Doctoral Dissertation Award.
8
Faculty and Staff News
  • Jeffrey Pomerantz awarded the OCLC/ALISE
    Library and Information Science Research Grant.

Paul Jones judges world's first Blooker Prize
9
2005 Winter Commencement
10
Student News
  • 1st fellowship offered by the Carolina
    Environmental Bioinformatics Research Center

Students Win World Usability Day Interactionary
Design Competition
11
Student News
  • Three of ten selected for induction into the
    Frank Porter Graham Honor Society were our
    Masters students.
  • Abe Crystal received the "Doctoral Students to
    ALISE Award"

12
Student News
  • Students organized a successful event on the
    future of libraries that highlighted library
    leaders.

13
Alumni News
  • Mary Boone named North Carolina's State
    Librarian

Representative Alice Bordsen visits SILS students
14
Alumni News
  • Irene Owens appointed dean of the School of
    Library and Information Science at NCCU

15
Alumni News
  • Lokman Meho and Kiduk Yang won the OCLC/ALISE
    2006 Library and Information Science Research
    Grant

Library Journal recognizes Tim Bucknall as a
"Mover and Shaker"
16
UNC Library and the School of Information and
Library Science join the Open Content Alliance
17
New Research Projects
  • The Carolina Environmental Bioinformatics
    Research Center (CEBRC) - Computational
    Infrastructure and the Public Outreach and
    Translational Activities
  • "Collaborative Research Curriculum Development
    Digital Libraries."

18
New Research Projects
  • NASA and ACM videos to be digitized with
    grant for digital preservation

19
Research Projects
  • "Usability of Personal Health Records," a project
    funded by the National Cancer Institute
  • Electronic Theses and Dissertations

20
Research Projects
  • NCLA Pay Equity Study
  • Return on Investment for Libraries in
    Pennsylvania

21
The Louis Round Wilson Academy
22
SILS 2006/2007 Goals
  • Strengthening SILS program offerings through
    curriculum review and revision
  • Focusing and clarifying the under-graduate and
    graduate information science programs and tying
    them more closely to the U.S. and global
    information industries
  • Marketing SILS programs proactively to increase
    recruitment and diversity of students

23
Goals (continued)
  • Increasing visibility and attracting resources
    for SILS research, scholarship and public
    engagement
  • Designing and engaging in a series of
    intellectual growth opportunities for the SILS
    and Carolina communities as well as the
    information and library science professions and
    disciplines
  • Successfully completing the schools masters
    level program reaccreditation

24
Goals (continued)
  • Realizing proposed opportunities with Red Hat,
    IBM, etc.
  • Developing a facilities plan for a new building
    for the School
  • Planning and implementing the SILS 75th
    anniversary celebration

25
Leveraging Funding
  • Grants, trust funds and private income
  • Fundraising

26
Opportunities
  • Health and bioinformatics
  • Open source software, open content and open
    services
  • Women in computing and information science

27
Concerns
  • Capacity
  • Inadequate infrastructure
  • - Facilities
  • - Administrative support
  • - Information technology

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Executive Session
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