Title: SILS Board of Visitors Spring Update
1SILS 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.
4New Faculty Staff
- Mark Winston joined SILS as associate professor
on January 1. - Meg McKee is SILS student services assistant.
5Visiting International Scholars
- Eva Ma Méndez RodrÃguez 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.
8Faculty and Staff News
- Jeffrey Pomerantz awarded the OCLC/ALISE
Library and Information Science Research Grant. -
Paul Jones judges world's first Blooker Prize
92005 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"
12Student News
- Students organized a successful event on the
future of libraries that highlighted library
leaders.
13Alumni News
- Mary Boone named North Carolina's State
Librarian
Representative Alice Bordsen visits SILS students
14Alumni News
- Irene Owens appointed dean of the School of
Library and Information Science at NCCU
15Alumni 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"
16UNC Library and the School of Information and
Library Science join the Open Content Alliance
17New Research Projects
- The Carolina Environmental Bioinformatics
Research Center (CEBRC) - Computational
Infrastructure and the Public Outreach and
Translational Activities - "Collaborative Research Curriculum Development
Digital Libraries."
18New Research Projects
- NASA and ACM videos to be digitized with
grant for digital preservation
19Research Projects
- "Usability of Personal Health Records," a project
funded by the National Cancer Institute - Electronic Theses and Dissertations
20Research Projects
- NCLA Pay Equity Study
- Return on Investment for Libraries in
Pennsylvania
21The 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
23Goals (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
24Goals (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
25Leveraging Funding
- Grants, trust funds and private income
- Fundraising
26Opportunities
- Health and bioinformatics
- Open source software, open content and open
services - Women in computing and information science
27Concerns
- Capacity
- Inadequate infrastructure
- - Facilities
- - Administrative support
- - Information technology
28Executive Session